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straight, the Aisc very obsoletely transverse sulcate. with a few 

 minute punctures, scuteUum ])lack, elytra scarcely more distinctly 

 punctured than the thorax, testaceous, all the margins narrowly 

 black, the legs and abdomen tesfciceous, the underside of the 

 thorax and the breast, black, elytral epipleurae black, broad at 

 the base, very narrow below the middle, the first joint of the 

 posterior tarsi nuich h)nger than th(» following joints together 

 but shorter than half the length of the til)iae. 



Hah. Si-Rambe. 



A small species, which may be knoun by the narrow' black 

 margins of the thorax and elytra. 



147. Monolepta melanocephala, n. sp. — Testaceous, the head, 

 antennae , breast and the tibia and tarsi Idackish , thorax obso- 

 letely depressed, finely punctured , elytra minutely punctured , 

 very narrowly margined w^ith piceous, the base more broadly so. 



Length 1 ^4 iine. 



Head impunctate black, frontal tubercles strongly raised, eyes 

 large, antennae scarcely extending to the middle of the elytra, 

 l)lack, the lower three joints obscure liavous , second and third 

 joints small, the following ones elongate, terminal joint widened 

 <;it the middle , thorax subquadrate , nearly twice as broad as 

 long, the sides straight, the posterior margin slightly rounded, 

 the surface with an obsolete depression at the sides, very finely 

 and closely punctured, scutellum Ijlack , elytra nearly parallel , 

 moderately convex, very minutely, but rather more distinctly 

 punctured than the thorax, the interstices slightly w.rinkled, all 

 the margins narrowly piceous, this colour slightly more extended 

 at the base and surrounding the shoulders, breast black, tibiae 

 and tarsi nearly, black. 



Hab. Si-Rambe. 



From the preceding species, the present one is at once distin- 

 guished by the black head and the colour of the tibiae and tarsi, 

 the insect is also slightly larger and less convex and the thorax 

 is somewhat more square-shaped, the base of the elytra is more 

 broadly although obtusely marked with black. 



148. Candezea Ihoracica. n. sp. — Pale testaceous, the extreme 



