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wideiiiuR- from the biise, rounded at the tip. T.ep? slender; anterior tarsal 

 joints 1 and '2 nitlier loutr and stuut, l' with a bhick-tipped, c-hiw-like extension 

 ahove. 



Length 4-.")J nun. ( J $ .) 



Hdb. 1>'DLA (ex coll. Boivriag, in Mus. Brit., ^: and ex cull. 

 Boi/s, in Jilts. Oxoii. : d ) ; West Bhatkot, alt. 4000 ft., Kanikhet 

 Divi^ion of Kuinaon {R. G. C. : viii.1917, v.1920: d ? )• 



Two S 6 and two $ 5 , the pair from Kiunaon [types] much 

 smaller than the others. The extremely large eyes and the shallowly 

 i.upressed head should separate the 6 from the same sex of At talus 

 b(iii(/haasi Pic, the $ of which has the head yellow in front. 



Malachiomitnus niyri^llis, n. sp. 



$. Elono-ate, svibparallel-sided, slightly widened posteriorly, shining, 

 thickly clothed, the legs nicluded with long, erect, blackish hairs intermixed 

 with decundjent pubescence; cyaneous, the head and prothor-ix green, the 

 ante.niae (the testaceo-macuhite basal joints excepted) and legs black, the 

 labrum testaceous; the head and protliorax very sparsely, minutely, the 

 elytra closely, tiuely, punctured. Head broad, transver.sely depressed and 

 shallowlv tnlbveate between the e_\es, the latter large; antennae moderately 

 long, sharplv serrate (subpectinate) from joint h onward. Trothorax strongly 

 transverse, scarcely narrower in front than at the base. Elytra long, gradually 

 widened from the base, blunt at the tip. 



Length 4!; mm. 



Hub. India (ex coll. Bowving, in Mus. Brit.). 



One female. The subparallel shape, relatively broader prothorax, 

 and subtruucate elytra, separate 31. nigripilis from 31. latifroiis, $ . 

 The present insect has the general facias of a 31alachius. 



3Ialachioniimus luteipes, u. sp. 



2 . Extremely like the smaller examples of M. lutifrons ; bluish-green 

 or brassy-green with the head and prolhorax tinted with cupreous in one 

 specimen, the basal joints of the antennae externally, the palpi (the infuscate 

 ^ernnnal joint excepted), labrum, and legs (the infuscate po.sterior tarsi 

 excepted) testaceous, the rest of the antennae piceous; thickly clothed (the 

 legs included; with long, erect hairs intermixed with fine scattered pallid 

 pubescence ; the head and prothorax very sparsely, minutely, the elytra densely, 

 finely punctate. Head with a rather deep frontal suture, bi- impressed in 

 front; eyes much smaller, and the antennae shorter, than in M. Idtifrons, the 

 elytra more densely punctured, the pilosity (in consequence) more abundant. 



Length '6^-4 mm. 



JIab. W. Almora Division of Kumaon {R. G. C. : iii.1918). 



