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141. Leptomias curtus, sp. nov. 



Colour black, A\ifh viniform dark grey scaling. 



Head convex, closely punctate, the Forehead with a narrow furrow 

 as broad as that on the rostrum. Rostrum shallowly depressed 

 near the base and with confluent punctation, narrowed from the 

 base to the middle, with a narrow central furrow in the basal half 

 only and a stout longitudinal impression on each side of it. Antennce 

 light chestnut, the scape reaching the posterior margin of the eye, 

 joints 3 and 4 of the funicle equal. ProtJiorcuv a little broader 

 than long, the sides strongly rounded, broadest at the middle, the- 



Fig. 56. — Leptomias curtus, Mshl.. $ . 



apical margin slightly rounded dorsally and scarcely narrower than 

 the base, deeply and rugosely punctured throughout and with a 

 well-marknd central furrow. Elytra very broadly ovate in the $ , 

 much narrower in the S , the basal margiiiatiou slight, with deeply 

 punctured stri?e which are a good deal obscured by the scaling, the 

 intervals rather convex, narrower than the stria3 in the S , l^ut not 

 in the $ , the setae dense, short and erect. 



Length, S 3|, $ 4| mm.; breadth, c5' I5, 2 2| mm. 



United Provinces : Dehra Dun (G. Ro<jers). 



Types (S $ in the British Museum. 



142. Leptomias porcellus, sp. nov. 



Colour black, with thin dark brown scaling. 



Head striolate, without any central furrow. Rostrum almost 

 parallel-sided, striolate, shallowly depressed near the base, with 

 a fine central furrow and a short longitudinal impression on each 

 side of it in the basal half. Antennce as in L. curtus. Prothorax 

 slightly longer than broad, the sides gently I'ounded, broadest 

 about the middle, the apical margin somewhat rounded dorsally 



