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new Bruchus received from Delira Dun by the l)r)tanical department of 

 the British Museimi, and of a Spercheus from Karaclii in the Andrevves 

 collection, are included in the present contribution. 



Species enumerated ia ihe present contrihiition. 

 Hydbophilidae. Colydiidak. 



Ejnmetopvs aspernfus, n. sp. Teredolaenms major, n. sp. 



* Spercheus gibbus, n. sp. 



Mycetophagidae. 

 Mycetopihagus bifascintns, n. sp. 



Anobiidae. 



Heteroceridae. *Sta(iefHs denticornis, n. sp. 



belli, n. sp. 

 binodiilus, n. sp. 



*Micihis minutissimiis Sahib. ,^ 



Xylophilidae. 



Silphidae. Xylophilus bulbifer, n. sp. 



ir 7 1- , , *Cnopus pinicola, n. st>. 



Hydnobius contrncuis, ii. sp. i- x- > f 



Bruchidae. 



Tbogositidae. Bnichus caeruleus, n. sp. 



*Thymalus iiidicus, n. sp. „ macidipyga, n. sp. 



JEpimetopus asperattis, n. sp. 



Robust, broadly obovate, convex, moderately sinning, nig-vo-pifeous, the 

 apex of the elytra and the legs more or less riifescent, the palpi and antennae 

 in part testaceous. Head granulate, triangularly depressed on each side within 

 the oblique, almost smooth refle.\ed lateral margins of the cljpeus, the eyes 

 large and almost divided. Prothorax short, convex on the disc, deeply con- 

 stricted near the base, widening thence to the prominent, obliquely truncated 

 anterior angles, and broadly produced in the middle in front; the surface 

 closely granulate, and with several scattered, minute, smooth tubercles 

 extending acro.ss the middle, and an oval, margined prominence in the centre 

 of the anterior prolongation, the disc obsoletely canaliculate. Elytra broader 

 than the prothorax, rapidly widening to beyond the middle, and (as seen from 

 above) broadly produced at the apex, the sides rounded and narrowly 

 explanate ; closely granulate and narrowly catenulate-striate, the granules on 

 the alternate interstices towards the sides and apex here and there developed 

 into very small smooth tubercles, which form a short (humeral) ridge at the 

 base of 7 and a short ridge at the apices of 3 and o. Legs stout, the tibiae 

 broad, with longitudinal rows of asperities, thus a.ppearing costate. Length 3^, 

 breadth 2 mm. 



Ilab. IxBiA, W. Almora in Kuniaon (//. G. C). 



The description is taken from a single s]:)ecimen, but others were 

 subsequently captured in the same district. Smaller than E. (Sepiduliim) 

 hullatus Sharp (Ent. Mo. Mag. xi, p. 249, 1875), type from "India"; 

 the tubercles greatly reduced in size and almost obsolete on the disc of 

 the elytra, the latter narrowly striate, the prothorax strongly constricted 



* Genera not preTiouely recorded from India. 



