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basal half, separately rounded at the apex. Legs very slender, the penultimate 

 joint of each tarsus scarcely widened, the claw-joint extremely slender. 

 Leno-th 2.i-3, breadth l-l^ mm. ( c? ? •) 



Hab.: Natal, Malveru [^], Frere [ ? ] (G. A. K. Marshall). 



Described from one male and two females. Various other 

 immature $ examples from Salisbury and Frere apparently belong to 

 the same species. Very near 8. fmcula Miill. {minufa Muls.), only 

 differing from it in having the antennae more slender in both sexes, 

 and not so long in (^ . The very fine, transversely reticulate elytral 

 sculpture is suggestive of that of the genus Anaspis. 



7. — Scraptia indica. 



? Scraftia indica Motsch., Bull. Mosc, 1863, 1, p. 482. 



Moderately elongate, depressed, finely pubescent, shining ; obscure-testa- 

 ceous, the head reddish, the antennae (joints 1 and 2 excepted) fuscous, the 

 eyes black ; densely, very finely, the head a little more sparsely, punctate. 

 Head transverse, the eyes moderately large, distant ; antennae ( c? ) long, rather 

 slender, joint 2 short, 3 minute, smaller than 2, 4-10 obconic, equal in length, 

 ( 9 ) stouter and a little shorter. Prothorax transverse, much wider than the 

 head, rapidly, arcuately narrowed from near the base, the latter sinuate, the 

 basal foveae small, the disc depressed in the middle between them. Elytra 

 broader than the prothorax, flattened, sub-parallel in their basal half. Legs 

 slender ; penultimate tarsal joint small, lobed. Length (with head extended) 

 2, breadth |-f mm. ( ^ ? .) 



Hab.: Ceylon, Dilcoya, alt. 3800-4200 ft. (G. Lewis: 21.i.'81- 

 7.ii.'82). 



One male and two females. A minute, flattened form, possibly 

 referable to S. indica Motschulsky, the type of which was from 

 Nuwara Elia (Nura Ellia), an insect said to be very nearly related to 

 S. fuscula, and to dift'er from it in having the head and prothorax 

 narrower. The Dikoya specimens, however, are much smaller than 

 S. fuscula, and the identification must remain doubtful. 8. jiavidnla 

 Motsch., from the same locality, is said to have the sides of the elytra 

 infuscate ; 8. pulicaria Fairm.,* from Belgaum, is also very similar, 

 but it apparently has more finely punctate elytra. 



8. — 8craptia punctipennis, n. sp. 



Moderately elongate, shining, flavo-pubescent, pale testaceous, the eyes black ; 

 the head and prothorax densely, minutely, the elytra much more coarsely punc- 

 tate. Head broad, the eyes moderately large, distant ; apical joint of the maxillary 



* Two iunnature examples from the Nilgiri Hills, in Mr. Andrewes' collection, probably 

 belong to this species. 



