LEPIDOSPYRIS. 



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convex than usual and with slight ineciualities visible through the 

 dense scahug ; the setse are so minute and depressed as to be 

 observable with difficulty, but near the posterior angles there is a 

 group of erect flattened setse. Scutellum almost circular. Elytra 

 \\\t\\ the sides subparallel from the shoulders to beyond the 

 middle, separately rounded at the base, the apices jointly sub- 

 acuminate and Avith a tuft of short setje, shallowly punctato- 

 striate, the dorsal strife sometimes almost hidden by the scaling, 

 the intervals broad and plane, granulately rugose when abraded, 

 a shallow impression on each side of the suture at the base ; the 

 setae short, depressed nnd inconspicuous, the apical margin scarcely 

 fringed. Ler/s with dense grey scaling ; tlie hind tibiae with the 

 corbels slightly ascending tlie dorsal edge ; the posterior intercoxal 

 process with a tuft of setae. 



Anal segment of the $ transverse, shallowly impressed. 



LeiKjth, (5-7 mm. ; breadth, 2|-3 mm. 



UxiTBi) Provinces : Uehra Dun. 



Ti/jje in the British Miiseum. 



117. Lepidospyris angustula, sp. nov. 



Colour black, \\ith dense pale sandy scaling, having a slight 

 coppery reflexion and variegated with small darker marlnngs. 



Read with flue shallow' punctation hidden by tlie scaling, the 

 forehead with a narrow central furrow ascending the vertex ; 

 eyes small, short, ovate and rather prominent. Rostrum as broad 

 as long, slightly narrowed from the base to the apex, shallowly 



Fig. 49. — Lepidospyris ani/ttstula, Msbl. 



depressed above, with a narrow central furrow and two carina- on 

 each side enclosing a longitutlinal impression which is almost 

 obscured by the scaUng. Anteniui' red-brown, the funicle with 

 joints 1 and 2 equal, 3 and 4 equal, 7 subconical and as long as 

 broad. ProtJiorax as long as broad, its sides slightly rounded, 

 broadest about the middle, siiallowly constricted near the apex, 



