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the middle, shoulders obtuse, lalei'al carina visible throughout ; almost im- 

 punctate, but Hues ol tine punctures may be discerned many of which bear an 

 upright golden hair. 



Length 1| mm. 



I£ab. Cetlon, Kitulgalle (G. Lewi's: Jan. 18S2). 



Approaches Platylissodema (infra) in its short, broad form and 

 almost impunetate elytra, strongly pronounced antennal club, etc., but 

 differs in lacking the impressed lateral border to the thorax. The 

 following species from Southern India is a closely allied form. 



Lissodema andreiuesi, n. sp. 



Very near L. leivisi, but a little larger; the thorax more closely, but more 

 irregularly punctate, with smooth spaces free from punctures. In the middle 

 of each elytron is a transverse oval spot ; occasionally these meet on tlie 

 suture, but in none of the specimens before me do they form a complete fascia 

 or show any tendency to a backward prolongation along the suture. 



Sab. S. India, Nilgiri Hills, Ouchterlony Valley, January, April, 

 and December, some on a woodstack, others under bark of a dead Ficus 

 (H. E. and H. L. Andreines). 



The short series examined shows considerable diversity in colour, 

 the head and thorax being almost piceous in some examples and pale 

 reddish testaceous in others, the latter also have the club of the antennae 

 tlavescent. The puncturation, too, of the thorax varies considerably, the 

 transverse basal foveae being sometimes very deep and confluent. 



5. Platylissodema, n. gen. 



Head broad and flat, rostrum short, wider than long, expanded towards 

 the apex ; antennal grooves exposed from above, extending to the eyes ; 

 antennae with the basal joint inflated, much wider than the succeeding joints, 

 L'ad and 3rd elongate, of almost equal length, 4th to 8th successively shorter, 

 9th to 11th strongly thickened, forming a large, loosely-articulated club. 

 Prothorax transverse, lateral margins each with Ave small teeth, of which the 

 last is the largest, and, projecting laterally far beyond the basal foramen of 

 the thorax, takes the place of the posterior angle ; above the marginal denticu- 

 lations is a fine somewhat irregularly-impressed line, or series of short lines ; 

 disc moderately convex, nitid. punctate, with a large fovea on each side before 

 the base. Elytra ovate, convex, disc smooth and nitid, punctures and striae 

 almost obsolete, lateral margins invisible from above ; humeri subrectangular ; 

 epipleura vanishing before the apex. 



Platylissodema may be regarded as intermediate between Lisso- 

 dema and Platysalpingus, nov. From the former it differs in having 

 the sides of the thorax with what may be considered a rudimentary 

 maro-inal line, the elytra smooth, almost impunetate, with a few 



