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Al till US calcarifer, ii. sp. 



5. Moderately elongate, shining, finely pubescent; black, the antennal 

 joints 1-5, palpi, prothorax, anterior coxae and legs in great part, intermediate 

 knees, and apices of posterior tibiae, testaceous or rufo-testaceous, tlie rest of 

 the antennae more or less infuscate, the elytra bluish-black; the head and pro 

 thorax almost smooth, the elytra closely, minutely punctured. Head njuch 

 narrower than the prothorax; antennae moderately long, slender, feebly 

 serrate. Prothorax convex, small, broader than long, rounded at the f-ides 

 Elytra moderately long, much broader than the proihorax, widened posteriorly 

 conjointly rounded at the apex, depressed on tlie disc below the base. 

 Posterior tibiae bowed inward, produced at the apex into a rather long spur. 



Length 2^-2^ mm. 



Hah. Gopaldhara, Ivungong Valley, Sikkim {H. Stevens). 



Two 2 5 . Smaller than A. dalmatinus Er., the antennae and legs 

 more slender ; the posterior tibiae of the 5 bowed and produced into a 

 i-ather long spur at the apex, as in the same sex of the American 

 A. various Champ., various Hy^^ebaeus, etc. 



Attalus triformis, n. sp. 



(S . Narrow, elongate, parallel-sided, shining, clothed with line pubescence 

 intermixed with seniierect longer hairs; brassy-black, the head on each side 

 before the eyes, clypeus, the basal joints of the antennae beneath, basal margin 

 of prothorax, trochanters, bases and apices of tibiae, bases of tarsi, and base 

 and apex of abdomen, testaceous, the apical margin of elytra whitisli ; the head 

 and prothorax sparsely, minutely, the elytra densely, lrausver:<ely, rugulosely 

 punctured. Head about as wide as prothorax, foveate in the middle between 

 the eyes; antennae filiform, very long, joints 5-11 elongate. Prothorax 

 transverse, convex, rounded at the sides, narrowly margined. Elytra, long, 

 wider than the prothorax, parallel, truncate and transversely plicate at the 

 tip. Anterior tarsal joints 1 and 2 thickened, 2 elongate, nigro-pectinate and 

 rounded at the apex, extending over 3 ; anterior and intermediate tibiae feebly 

 sinuate within, the posterior pair curved. 



5 . Antennae short, joints 3-10 subequal in length ; prothorax wholly, or 

 with the sides broadly, testaceous ; elytra widened posteriorly ; pygidiuni 

 black ; posterior tibiae slightly sinuate. 



Length 2i mm. 



Hab. Nilgiri Hills (//. L. Andrewes). 



Three specunens of each sex, the $ $ certainly belonging to the 

 same species, these having the prothorax laterally or wholly testaceous. 

 The pjgidium is testaceous in 6 and infuscate in J . The apical margin 

 of the elytra (as seen from behind) is whitish and transversely plicate 

 in (5 ; hut there is no definite cavity such as is to be found in the same 

 sex of Ebaeus. 



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