( 1"' ) 



Elytra: a sinnons band lieliiiul basal tnberclc from side to side, narrowed at 

 the suture, and the apical declivous area creamy bnff ; subbasal callosity enlarjjed 

 to a conical tubercle with rounded apex, a smaller dorsal tubercle behind middle, 

 obtuse and gradually fading away anteriorly, seventh interspace elevate before 

 apical declivity, but not forming a distinct tubercle. Pygidium semicircular, 

 entirely creamy butf. 



Underside spotted with creamy buff laterally ; prosternite and sides of 

 meso-metasternite punctured. Femora rufescent at base, pubescence grey, fuscous 

 at ajiex ; tibiae black, with a broad grey ring proximally to middle, the chitin 

 being here rufous ; tarsi black, first segment grey excepting its extreme tip ; 

 first foretarsal segment not longer than fourth. 



Length (exclusive of head) (J mm. 



One ? from Knrseong, Sikkim. 



26. Hucus virgatus spec. nov. 



?. Near //. persimilis Jord. (1903), smaller, slaty black, very slightly 

 rufescent, the markings of the upperside and the whole underside pubescent 

 greyish white, not bulfish. Angle of pronotal carina perceptibly larger and last 

 antennal segment longer. All the alternate interspaces (1, 3, 5, etc.) of the 

 elytra bearing greyish white lines which are nearly all complete from base to 

 apex, the other interspaces also bearing same short streaks, the white pubescence 

 is denser at basal margin and behind soutelliim, and also form indistinct spots at 

 the lateral margin behind shoulder and in front of and again behind middle, 

 this last spot continued obliquely forward to disc by means of an ill-defined 

 narrow line. 



Sides of meso- and metasternum white. Legs slighty rufescent, pubescent 

 greyish white, tip of tibiae and underside of tarsi black. 



Length (exclusive of head) 3| mm. 



One ? from Milne Bay, British New Guinea (A. S. Meek). 



27. Hucus proles spec. nov. 



?. Likewise closely allied to 11. persimilis Jord. (1003), as well as Tl. sfriatioi 

 Jord. (1003), being of the same size and colour. Angle of pronotal carina distinctly 

 more rounded and the pronotum, in a dorsal view, appearing hardly at all 

 narrowed immediately in front of the dorsal carina ; grey vittae as sharply defined 

 as in //. St rill fits. Elytra without transverse band ; a line in third interspace, 

 which it nearly fills up, from base to near apex, where it runs across the second 

 interspace to the sntnral angle ; another line in interspace 7, of nearly the same 

 width as the other, widened before apex, a thin line in 4 from base to near 

 centre, another thin line in 5 from base to near apex, but more or less incomplete 

 behind, some spots in lateral interspaces, and a short patch behind scutellum 

 posteriorly widening out laterad ; all these markings grey. Underside and legs 

 as in //. pi'rsimilis. 



Two ? ¥ from Batjan. 



Lemuricedus gen. nov. 

 S ? . Frons snlcate, not carinate as in Cediis. Rostrum either forming an obtuse, 

 rounded, angle with the gula, or vertical, in the J always and in the ? usually 



