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faint and shallow, striae 1 and 2 and stria) 3 and 4 respectively 

 converging at the base, the intervals convex, with small dark 

 punctures containing minute setae, the alternate ones more raised, 

 3 broadly interrupted twice behind the middle, 5 interrupted at 

 the middle, and 7 on the declivity, these interruptions variable, 

 stria) 1 and 2 containing rows of distant sliinj^ graiuiles in the 

 basal half. Legs comparatively slender, with dense green scaling 

 and small black spots, the corbels of tlie hind tibiae not squamose 

 inside, the second joint of the hind tarsi not transverse. 



Length, S 6|-8|, 5 9-10 mm. ; breadth, c^ '^^-H, 2 •>- 

 5^ mm. 



Assam : Manipur (Dohei-ty — type) ; Ukhrul, 6500 ft., Manipur 

 (Eev. W. Fetti(/rew — lud. Mus.) ; Shillong, Khasi Hills (Godwin 

 Austen — -Ind. Mus.) ; Chirapuuji, Khasi Hills (Ind. Mus.). 

 SiKKiM : Gopaldhara, Rangbong Valley ( W. K. Webb). 



Types S 2 ill the British Museum. 



D. helleri var. simplex, nov. 



Differs from the typical form principally in the absence of the 

 interruptions on the intervals of the elytra ; the prothorax is also 

 rather less rugose and the central carina more distinct. 



Assam : Khasi Hills {E. T. Atkinson, Col. W.F. Badgehi/). 



Type 2 in the British Museum. 



D. helleri var. subrotundus, nov. 



Distinguished from the preceding forms by its much shorter 

 and more strongly rounded elytra, which are broadest far behind 

 the middle ; in the individual examined the posterior interruption 

 on interval 3 and that on 7 are absent ; the prothorax is quite 

 smooth and there is no trace of a central carina. 



Length, 7 mm. ; breadth, 4,| mm. 



N. IxniA. 



Type 2 in the British Museum. 



Genus DEEMATODES. 



Dermatodes , Schunherr, Gen. Cure, v, 1840, p. 895 ; Lacordaire, Gen. 



Col. vi, 1863, p. 109. 

 Layodonms, Schonlierr, op. cit. i, 1833, p. 612, nom. prajocc. 



Type, Dermatodes paganus, Gyl. (Ja^a). 



Head with the eyes lai'ge and only slightly convex, almost as 

 long as the head and almost as broad as the forehead. Eostrvm 

 separated from the head by a curved furrow, its base mucli 

 broader than the forehead, the scrobes deep and curving sharply 

 downwards in front of the eye. Antennae inserted before middle 

 of the rostrum, the scape reaching the middle of the eye, the club 

 with joint 1 longer tlian 2. Prothorax with the gular margin 

 shallowly sinuate. Scutdlum distinct, circular. Sternum with the 

 anterior coxae Situated about the middle of the presternum ; the 



