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angles; disc in the middle with a fine iiiipres.«ed longitudinal lino; finely 

 coriaceous, moderately shining, and with moderately large and not very close 

 punctures. Elytra brownish-yellow, a little darker at the »?ciitellum, mode- 

 rately strongly and moderately closely punctured, sparingly pubescent. 

 Abdomen black, shining, the last segment pitchy-red, coriaceous, almost 

 impunctate, pubescence moderately long, sparing, and yellow. 



Kah. Peshawar, Taru (T. B. Fletcher). 



Uso7'ius robust us, n. sp. ^^ 



Black, shining, the head rather coarsely and irreg^ilarly punctured in 

 front, between the eyes coarsely and longitudinally strigose, the base finely 

 jiuHctured, the vertex in the middle smooth. Thorax sulcate on either side of 

 tlie smooth median space, the sides with coarse and more or less confluent 

 punctures. Elytra sparingly and moderately finely punctured. Antennae 

 slender, brown. Legs pitchy-brown. Length 10 mm. This species in build 

 is vei'v similar to O. rugicollis Kr. (the thorax in this respect being exactly 

 similar), but it is larger and much more robust, the antero-external angles of 

 the Iront are much less produced, the head much more coarsely strigose, the 

 thor.ix scarcely strigose, and the abdomen more sparingly punctured. Head 

 rather coarsely punctured behind the anterior margin, on the slightly pro- 

 d u-ed antero-external angles, and in front of the antennal tubercles, the rest 

 of the front and a median space on the vertex smooth ; coarsely strigose 

 internal to the eyes, the base finely and closely punctured. Antennae slender, 

 tlie 2ud joint shorter than the 3rd, the 3rd to the 10th all longer than broad, 

 gradually decreasing in length so that the 9th and 10th are but little longer 

 than broad, the 11th as long as the preceding. Thorax a little broader than 

 long, the sides gradually convergent behind, the posterior angles obtuse but 

 prominent, the disc on either side of the middle with a narrow irregular sulcus 

 throughout nearly the whole length, externally with coarse confluent punc- 

 turutiun, the region of the posterior angles smooth, as in the middle of the 

 di-^c. Elytra a little longer and broader than the thorax, sparingly and mode- 

 rately finely punctured. Abdomen coriaceous, finely and rather sparingly 

 punctured; pubescence sparing, j'ellow. 



Hab. Sidapur, Coorg ( Y. H. Rao). 



Dianoiis championi, n. sp. 



$ . Deep black, shining, the head moderately coarsely and not very closely 

 ])iiii(.-tiu'ed. Thorax uneven, coarsely and rather closely punctured, irregularly 

 scal[>tured at the base. Elytra with coarse, confluent sculpture, vorticose 

 behind the middle. Abdomen with the anterior segments impressed at the 

 b.ise, pretty closely and moderately finely punctured, more finely and obsoletely 

 behind. Fourth joint of all the tarsi moderately bilobed. First joint of the 

 maxillary palpi reddish-testaceous. Length b''2 mm. Very near D. radiatus 

 Champ., but smaller and narrower, the thorax less uneven, the median sulcus 

 1)1 il extending backwards beyond the middle, and the elytra less rugose in 

 front. Head narrower than the elytra, rather deeply bisulcate, moderately 

 C'larsely and not very closely punctured throughout. Antemiae rather long 



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