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is hardly greater than that of neck ; prothorax naiTOW, contracted 

 behind both more and further from base ; elytra more convex, more 

 narrowed towards base, shoulders more rounded and behind them tlie 

 surface rather strongly depressed, striae deeper on disk and with larger 

 punctures. 



United Peovinces: Kumaon, West Almora Division, Sundcr- 

 dhunga, 8000-12,000 ft. {H. G. Champion), 3 ex. Type in the British 

 Museum. 



Semhidium leptaleum, sp. nov. 



Length 3-5 mm. ; width 1-3 mm. 



Aeneous, shiny, underside piceous; joints 1-3 of antennae, with basal half 

 of 4, palpi (except apex), legs, apical margin of elytra, and a very small, 

 indistinct spot at apical third of each elytron, covering intervals 6-7, rufous ; 

 rest of antennae, and penultimate joint of palpi fuscous. 



Head with simple shallow furrows, curving outwards to the hind supra- 

 orbital ])ore, a few transverse striae on their inner mnigins, neck thick, eyes 

 not prominent, antennae short, reaching very little be\und base of elytra, 

 surface smooth. Prothorax convex, transverse, a third as wide again as head, 

 and half as wide again as long, sides of base bordered and only very slightly 

 oblique, sides moderately rounded and faintly sinuate close to hind angles, 

 which are in the form of a minute rectangular tooth and have a short but very 

 distinct carina; median line fine, but strongly impressed just in front of base> 

 foveae deep, the outer part, close to the carina, separated from the inner part by 

 a small raised area, base a little depressed, with a few moderate punctures, one 

 or two punctures along front transverse impresfcion, surface smooth. Elytra 

 convex, oval, half as wide again as prothorax, and two-thirds as long again as 

 wide, side border ending in a slight tooth between striae 5 and 6 ; punctate- 

 striate, the striae rather shallow and evanescent behind, stria 1 deep to apex, 

 where it joins 2, which is deep close to apex only, interval 2 at tliat point 

 being very wide, apical stria fairly deep and rather long, scutellary striole 

 short, but very deep at base ; intervals slightly convex on disk, 3 with two 

 pores at basal fourth and apical third respectively, surface a little less shiny 

 than that of head and prothorax. 



Not unlike 13. nigricorne Gyllh., but narrower, the legs and 

 antennae otherwise coloured. Head with deeper furrows and wider 

 side ridges, the front supraorbital })ore much larger ; prothorax much 

 narrower, median line deeper behind, the foveae each divided into two 

 by a slight raised area ; elytra less brilliant, the striae deeper and 

 intervals not quite ilat, the basal border altogether wanting. 



SiKKiM : Lachung, 9000 ft. {H. Stevens), 1 ex. My collection. 



August, 1922. 



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