LEPXOMIAS. 179 



139. Leptomias lituratus, Redt. 



Ctieorhimis Ufuratiis, Redtenbacher,* Ilug'el's Kasclim. iv. nt '> 

 1848, p. 543. ° > i •-> 



Colour black, with brown sealing having a slight coppery re- 

 flexion, and with a faint paler patch with a darker edging on "each 

 ■elytron behind the middle. 



ffead finely punctate, the foreliead somewhat wrinkled and with 

 a deep central stria which ascends right to the vertex. Rostrum 

 evidently longer than broad, almost parallel-sided, rugosely punc- 

 tate above, with a deep central furrow and a broad longitudinal 

 impression on each side of the basal half. Antennce red-brown 

 (both funicles missing). Protliorax as long as broad, the sides 

 regularly rounded, broadest about the middle, the apex a little 

 narrower than the base, rugosely granulate above and with a deep 

 complete central furrow. Elytra narrowly ovate, strongly emar- 

 ginate at the base, the stria? with rather large but shallow punc- 

 tures, the intervals somewhat narrow and convex, the alternate 

 ones a little more raised, the suture obtusely elevated on the de- 

 clivity, the sette short and suberect, longer and more numerous 

 behind. Legs black, the tarsi reddish ; the posterior tibice of the S 

 quite straight except at the apex, where they are bent sharply 

 inwards almost at right angles. 



Lemitli, <6k mm. ; breadth, 2| mm, 



Kashmir (i'Oiii/'»Y/(?? — type). United Provinces : Mussoorie ; 

 Mandali, 9000 ft., Jauiisar division, Dehra Dun. 



Tiji:>e 6 in the Vienna Museum. 



140. Leptomias bituberculatus, sp. uov. 



Colour black, with uniform brownish scaling. 



Head striolately punctured, with a deep narrow central furrow,, 

 Rostrum narrowed from the base to the middle, plane above, strio- 

 late, the central furrow not broader than that on the head and 

 almost reaching the apex. Antennce red-brown, with the scape 

 reaching the posterior margin of the eye, the funicle with joints 

 3 and 4 equal. Prothora.v a little longer than broad, the sides 

 rounded, broadest behind the middle, the apex narrower than the 

 base, deeply and closely punctate throughout, with a deep narrow 

 central furrow and a shallow rounded lateral impression behind 

 the middle. Ehjtra broadly ovate, sharply acuminate behind, 

 with the apex produced downwards, the base obscurely marginate, 

 deeply punctato-striate, the intervals slightly convex, 3 and 5 

 broader than 2 and 4, with a prominent rounded tubercle at the 

 top of the declivity, the setae rather dense, short and suberect. 



Length, 5| mm. ; breadth, 2| mm. 



N. India. 



Type $ in the British Museum. 



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