. Coleoptera : general introduction and Cicindelidae and Paussidae. t. Length 8| millim. SlKKIM. Type in M. Grouvelles collection. TIHYSODES. 505 276. Rhysodes boysi, Arr. Rhysodes boysi, Arrow, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) vii, 1901, p. 87. Black, shining, depressed; head triangular, without carinas orlateral channels, but with a diamond-shaped flat space in front, behind whichthere is a deep circular foramen orlarge fovea not reaching the base; an-tennae moderate; pro thorax long, with-out raised costae, but with an entirecentral furrow, and on each side ofthis an almost pear-shaped depression,w
. Coleoptera : general introduction and Cicindelidae and Paussidae. t. Length 8| millim. SlKKIM. Type in M. Grouvelles collection. TIHYSODES. 505 276. Rhysodes boysi, Arr. Rhysodes boysi, Arrow, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) vii, 1901, p. 87. Black, shining, depressed; head triangular, without carinas orlateral channels, but with a diamond-shaped flat space in front, behind whichthere is a deep circular foramen orlarge fovea not reaching the base; an-tennae moderate; pro thorax long, with-out raised costae, but with an entirecentral furrow, and on each side ofthis an almost pear-shaped depression,which is very broad at the base, andvery narrow just about the middle,where it ceases; elytra with deeplypunctured striae, the fourth intersticestrongly raised behind ; anterior femoranot toothed in the 7 (?) Fig. 232.—Rhysodes boysi. Type in the British Museum. The species was described from twofemales, probably from the Himalayan Kegion; one of these is inthe British Museum, and the other in the Oxford Museum. Themale is not 277. Rhysodes aterrimus, Chevr. Rhysodes aterrimus, Chevrolat, Ann. Soc. Ent. France (5) iii, 1873,p. 209. Rhysodes armatus, Arrow, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) vii, 1901, p. 85. Pitchy black, rather dull, cylindrical;Itead produced behind the eyes, posteriorlobes twice approximating on the vertex,anterior elevated space short, constrictedin the middle ; at the back of the head isa small punctiform fovea which is distantfrom the central raised space ; prothoraxlong, with the sides almost straight, the disctrisulcate, with the external sulci broad andwith four almost parallel carina?, the twocentral ones nearly or actually meeting infront and behind ; elytra with broad punc-tured striae; smooth parts of the headand prothorax punctured, underside verycoarsely punctured; anterior tibiae biden-tate at apex, with a third tooth in theFig. 233. centre.—Male with the anterior tibiae fur- Bhysodes aterrimus. nished with a fourth
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