208 Mr. J. S. Baly on new species of Phytophagous Beetles. 



posterior thighs excepted) pale yellow ; claws more or less stained 

 with piceous; hinder femora strongly incrassate, ovate, their 

 under surface armed near the apex with two acute spines. 

 Hab. Nepal. 



Temnaspis insignis. 



T. elongatus parallelus, nitido-fulvus, villosus ; elytris nigro-purpu- 



reis, macula apicali rufo-fulva; tarsia quatuor anticis piceis. — Long. 



5 1in. 



Elongate, parallel, shining fulvous, villose ; four anterior tarsi 

 piceous ; elytra purple-black, a narrow semilunate patch at their 

 apex rufo-fulvous. Head shining, deeply punctured, punctures 

 distant on the face ; front impressed with a deep fovea ; antennae 

 more robust than in T. nigriceps. Thorax subcylindrical ; sides 

 constricted in front and at the extreme base, produced near 

 the latter into an obtuse tubercle; above shining, grooved at 

 the apex and narrowly so at the extreme base, anterior groove 

 dilated and angled in the middle ; surface deeply but not closely 

 punctured, sparingly covered with erect hairs. Scutellum tri- 

 angular, its apex emarginate. Elytra longer than in T. nigriceps j 

 broader than the thorax ; sides parallel ; apex rounded, dehiscent 

 at the suture ; above convex, less deeply and closely punctured 

 than in the last species ; shining black, covered with long sub- 

 depressed hairs, apical margin rufo-fulvous. Beneath shining 

 fulvous, covered with long erect hairs; posterior thighs as in 

 the last species ; four anterior tarsi piceous, 



Hab, Northern India. 



Longer and narrower than the preceding insect. 



Poecilomorpha Murrayi. 



P, subelongata, fulva ; pectore, abdominis fasciis, antennis pedibusque 

 nigris. — Long. 6 lin. 



Subelongate, fulvous, sparingly covered with adpressed hairs. 

 Head coarsely punctured ; clypeus separated from the face by a 

 deep transverse fossa ; antennae, apex of jaws, and an indistinctly 

 raised tubercle between the eyes, black. Thorax transverse, 

 constricted at the base and apex ; sides rounded in front, pro- 

 duced posteriorly into a stout obtuse protuberance, which is 

 flattened towards the apex ; above convex, deeply grooved at the 

 base and apex, shining fulvous, sparingly punctured. Elytra 

 broader than the thorax ; sides subparallel ; apex rounded, de- 

 hiscent at the suture ; above convex, slightly flattened along the 

 back, shoulders slightly prominent ; surface closely and distinctly 

 punctured, sparingly covered with fulvous hairs. Beneath black ; 

 head, thorax, anterior coxae, a spot at the apex of the posterior 



