270 kutelinjE. 



Bombay: Belgauin (//. E. Andrewes), Basseiu Fort (Oct.); 

 €enxr.vl Provinces: Nagpur, 1000 ft. {E. A. D''Ahreu,'Se\)t.); 

 Madras. 



Ty2ie in the Halle Museum. 



294. Rhinyptia nigrifrons. 



Rhinyptia jiif/rifrons, Kraatz, Deutsche Ent. Zeits. 1895, p. 105. 



Orange-yellow, with the tarsi reddish, and the vertex of the 

 head and the forehead at the sides black. 



It is rather convex, moderately elongate and very shining, with 

 a scanty clothing of hair upon the clypeus and the sternum. The 

 head is densely rugose, with the clypeus narrow and its sides 

 converging rapidly to form a reflexed apical process, trun- 

 cated at the end and broader than it is long ; there is a sharp 

 median longitudinal carina extending the whole length of the 

 clypeus. The prouotum is moderately finely and closely punc- 

 tured, with its lateral margins gently and uniformly curved, the 

 front angles slightly acute and the hind angles obtuse. The 

 scutellum is finely punctured, and the elytra are deeply punctate- 

 striate, with the second stria broken up at the base into irregular 

 punctures, and the fifth consisting of unconnected punctures 

 which do not extend to the extremities. The pygidium is moder- 

 ately finely and closely punctured. The front tibia bears a long 

 and slender terminal tooth, a strong middle and a rather feeble 

 uppermost one. 



Length, 11 mm. ; breadth, 6 mm. 



Pu>fJAB : Suleiman Mountains. 



Type in the Brussels Museum. 



A badly-preserved specimen of this species in the Indian 

 Museum is the only one I have seen. It is labelled " Suleiman 

 Range. V. Ball, Esq." This throws light upon Kraatz's mysterious 

 record " Suliman v. Ball. Range (Mus. Bruxellense et Kraatz)," 

 I have not received a specimen from either of these collections 

 and the Calcutta specimen is possibly the type. 



295. Rhinyptia suturalis. 



Rhinyptia suturalis, Kraalz, Deutsche Ent. Zeits. 1895, p. 104. 



Testaceous yellow, with the head black, except the clypeus, a 

 dark line upon the elytral suture (a little dilated just behind the 

 scutellum) and usually an oblique mark on each side of the middle 

 line of the pronotum on its posterior half. Sometimes a less 

 distinct mark also occu])ies the corresponding place upon the 

 anterior half and occasionally all are absent. 



It is moderately elongate, rather parallel- sided, convex, and 

 very shining above and beneath. The clypeus is narrow, punc- 

 tured and sharply carinate along the middle ; its sides converge to 

 form a strongly recurved rostrum, rather shorter than it is broad 

 and rounded at the end. The forehead is rugosely punctured. 

 The pronotum is moderately and rather evenly punctured, with 



