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and the hind part of the margin are ciliated ; the legs and the 

 under parts have a kind of pinkish hue ; the tibise at the end 

 are widely tipped with brown ; the abdomen has the segments 

 brown in the middle at the base. 



Length 9J lines. 



Hab. N. India. (Coll. Brit. Mus.) 



A more obscure specimen from Silhet, seemingly of the same 

 species, is 2 lines shorter. 



Nyphona plagiat a y n. s. 



N. grisea, punctata ; elytris macula magna subtriangulari fusca antice 

 albido cincta ; elytris singulis medio lineis duabus brevibus nigro- 

 fuscis, apice truncatis confertim ciliatis ; thoracis lateribus laevibus. 



Griseous, punctured; antennas with the third and fourth 

 joints punctulated with white ; greater part of the thorax above 

 rugose and deeply punctured, front margin smooth, lateral mar- 

 gin without tubercles ; elytra in the middle at the base with an 

 elongated tubercle, covered above with short hairs ; about the 

 middle of the elytra and on the suture there is a largish brown 

 mark, triangularly pointed in front and margined with whitish ; 

 the side of it, about the middle of each elytron, with two short 

 deep brown lineolets, the outer one the widest ; the tip of each 

 truncated, thickly covered with cilia ; under side cinereous, sides 

 ochraceous ; inside of the legs greyish, outside ochraceous. 



Length 7J lines. 



Hab. E. Indies. (Coll. Brit. Mus.) 



Nyphona parallela, n. s. 



N. grisea ; elytris fuscis, sutura late et margine anguste griseis ; ely- 

 tris fusco punctatis ; thoracis lateribus subtuberculatis. 



Griseous, elongated, somewhat parallel ; head with a narrow 

 line down the middle devoid of hairs; thorax rugose, deeply 

 punctured ; down the middle is a slightly raised keel, which has 

 an impressed line down it behind ; the sides of the thorax are 

 somewhat tubercular ; the elytra are punctured and deep brown, 

 the suture is widely margined with griseous, the sides are nar- 

 rowly bordered with the same ; down the middle of each are 

 three slight keels ; the apex of each is bimucronate and hairy ; 

 under side and legs griseous, and somewhat dotted with brown. 



Length 6 lines. 



Hab. N. India. (Coll. Brit. Mus.) 



Nyphona lateralis, n. s. 

 N. rubido-grisea, punctata; elytris singulis ad marginem ante me- 



