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Show 110 REV. H. S. GORHAM ON N E W [Mar. 5, distinct linear black spot upon the crown; the eyes are prominent and are wider than the thorax. The thorax has the sides nearly parallel, the middle with a narrow deep channel, which is black ; each side of the disk is widely and obliquely impressed, but the front is not depressed as in the two preceding species. The antennse are long, being three quarters of the length of the body, and pubescent, with long pilose hairs. The two basal joints are blacker than the rest, but none of the joints are smooth. The scutellum is pitchy black, red at the sides. The elytra red, with squamose pubescence and longer hairs than in the preceding species. Two examples from Dibru, and one from the Naga Hills. The specimens are apparently males, but I do not think they can be referred to the species with serrate antennas. Obs. There is a Calochromus from Dibru almost exactly resembling this species in colour and form. 35. LYCOCERUS CALIGINOSUS, sp. nov. (Plate X. fig. 11.) Niger, subnitidus; prothoracis lateribus supra, humeris, elytrorum-que marginibus postice obscure rufis, genis et mandibulis flavis elytris opacis, fumeo-caliginosis. Long. 12 millim. Hab. India (Mus. Cedentta). Head smoky black, rather shining, the cheeks at the base of the mandibles and the latter yellow; the antennse flattened and widened in the middle, but hardly serrate, two joints at the base shining, the rest smoky black. Thorax with the sides narrowed from the base; the disk as in L. serricornis, but rather even, not much depressed in front, the middle very obsoletely channelled, the black vitta very distinct and undulate, the side deep blood-red. Elytra smoky black, the lateral margin (excepting at the base) and the apex reddish, but this colour here is ill defined, the callus is also red. Underside black and a little shining. A very obscure-looking insect, of which nine examples in the Calcutta Museum are all I have seen. In some of these the red margin of the elytra is complete. 36. LYCOCERUS MILITARIS, sp. nov. (Plate X. fig. 12.) Niger; corpore parum nitido, prothoracis disco ineequali, obscure picescente, elytris rufo-brunneis, antennis serratis. Long. 10-12 millim. 3 $ . Mas. Antennis longioribus, minus ampliatis, unguiculis simplicibus. Fern. Antennis minus longis, articulis brevioribus latioribus; unguiculis anterioribus quatuor primis basi hamatis. Hab. China, Fuchau (G. Lewis). Eyes prominent, head black with the exception of the cheeks in front of the antennse, where there is a pale spot, crown a little shining, clothed with a pale golden pubescence. Antennse (of the male) about three quarters of the length of the body, the fourth to the end joints equal in length, serrate, the fourth to the eighth widest, those of the female wider and shorter. Thorax greyish |
