154 CUECU1I0NID.I. 



ascending to the vertex ; eyes short, oval, moderately prominent. 

 Bostrum about as long as broad, parallel-sided, broadly impressed 

 above, with two lateral cariiise on each side and a narrow central 

 furrow in the basal lialF only. Anteniue blackish, the funicle with 

 joint 1 thicker and slightly longer than 2, 3 a little longer than 4, 

 7 slightly transverse, the club broadly ovate. Prothorax as lon^ 

 as broad, its sides rounded, broadest at middle, sballowly con- 

 stricted at the apex which is narrower than the base, the upper 

 surface strongly convex, rugosely and coufluently punctate, the 

 interstices somewhat veriniculate, with a rather shallow central 

 furrow extending from the base to beyond the middle, the basal 

 margin shallowly bisinuate. Scutellum transverse. Eh/tra with 

 the sides parallel from the shoulders to beyond middle, scarcely 

 acuminate behind, the apices jointly emarginate, evidently punctato- 

 striate, the punctures becoming much fainter posteriorly, the 

 intervals smooth, much broader than the striae and almost plane, 

 2 not broader than 3 ; the setse short and curved, the apical 

 margin with a fringe of tine hairs. Legs black, with dense grey 

 scaling; the tibioe not furrowed, the posterior pair not produced 

 internally at the apex and with the corbel shortly ascending the 

 dorsal edge, the anterior tibia3 of the c5' with an internal fringe of 

 very long hairs. 



Anal segment of the $ strongly transverse and simply rounded 

 at the apex.. 



Length, 7:j-8i mm. ; breadth 3-3^ mm. 



Bombay: NT Kanara {T. It. D. Bell). United Peovixces : 

 Kathgodam, 1200 ft., Kumaon {S. W. Kemp— lu<X. Mus.). 



Type in the Dresden Museum. 



116. Lepidospyris demissa, sp. nov. 



Colour black, with dense overlapping grey or greyish-brown 

 scales, the elytra occasionally having rows of whitish spots along 

 some of the strite. 



Head slightly more convex in S than in $ , with a fine central 

 stria almost concealed by the scaling, and set with very broad 

 subrecumbent scale-like setae ; when the scaling is abraded the 

 head is rather rugosely coriaceous ; eyes rather small, shortly 

 ovate, very prominent and subconical. Rostrum as long as its 

 basal width, slightly narro\\ed from base to apex, the sides almost 

 straight, with a broad impression i]i the basal half containing a 

 central stria, the inner carina? dorsal in position and strongly 

 convergent behind, the upper edge of the scrobe curving down- 

 wards a long way in front of the eye ; the scaling very dense 

 throughout, interspersed with numerous broad curved setae. An- 

 tennce piceous, the funicle with joint T longer and stouter than 2, 

 joints 4 and 5 equal and slightly transverse, 3 a little longer, 7 

 slightly transverse. Prothorax broader than long, broadest quite 

 close to the base, thence narrowed to the apex, the sides only 

 slightly rounded, the base shallowly bisinuate, the dorsum less 



