[April, 



base and with the humeri angular in front, the legs and antennae much 

 stouter. T. heydeni is a minute, shining, ferruginous, oblong insect, 

 described from examples introduced into France, etc. Ganglbauer gives 

 a long accovmt of its characters, and adds Egypt and Algeria as localities. 

 It appears to have been carried in cargoes of rice. The Indian 

 T. erraficus,* sent unmounted in s])irit, inay have been found indoors V 

 In general facies it resembles the Lathridiid-genus Meropliysia. 



SpJiindiis semirufus, n. sp. 



Oblong, robust, shining, tliickly clothed with long, soft, decumbent, 

 whitish hairs; blacL:, the head (eyes excepted), antennae, prothorax, scutellum, 

 and legs rufo-testaceous; the head, prothorax, and scutellum closely punc- 

 tured, the elytra with rows of fine punctures extending to the apex, and the 

 interstices flat, alutaceous, and obsoletely punctulate. Head broad; eyes 

 coarsely facetted ; antennae short, joint 1 stout, 2 much shorter and narrower, 

 3-7 slender, 8-10 forming an oblong club, 8 and 9 strongly transverse, 

 8 smaller and shorter than 9. I'rothorax convex, transverse, rounded at the 

 sides, narrowed anteriorly. Elytra long, subparallel in their basal half. Tarsi 

 5-joiuted. 



Length 2\ mm. 

 Hcib. Sitapur in Ivumaon ( ZT. Gr. C). 



One s])ecimen. Larger and more convex than the Euroj)ean 

 >S. duhiiis Gylh, the upper surface shining, differently coloured, and 

 clothed with longer hairs. The general facies is that of a Cls. 



Fliloeotrya qnercicola, n. sp. 



Elongate, narrow, parallel-sided, dull, finely pubescent; nigro-piceous, 

 the suture reddish in one specimen, the antennal joints 1 and 2 and the apices 

 of the others, and the tarsi, testaceous ; densely, very finely, reticulate- 

 punctate, the sculpture of the prothorax coarser and transversely rugose. 

 Head sulcate down the middle ; joint 4 of maxillary palpi long and cultri- 

 form in J, «i little shorter in 5 I antennae moderately long, not very slender, 

 joints 6-10 slightly decreasing in length. Prothorax very convex, longer than 

 broad, obliquely narrowed at the base (as seen from above), sulcate down the 

 middle posteriorly, and with an oblique, basal fovea on each side of this. 

 Elytra very elongate, as wide as the prothorax, subparallel to near the tip, 

 and with a shallow groove near the suture, the sutural region somewhat 

 depressed. Terminal ventral segment triangularly depressed in the middle 

 behind, and the anterior tarsi thickened, in (^ , Easal joint of posterior tarsi 

 as long as 2-4 united. 



Length 5-7, breadth 1^-2 mm. 

 Hah. Bhatkot, Eanikhet Division of Kumaon {H. O. C. -. iv.l920). 



* Fi-ured by J acobsou in his " Coleoi)tera of Russia," pi. 22, fig. 20. 



