LEPTOMIAS. ISl^ 



tiud scarcely narrower than the base, with deep confluent puncta- 

 tio.i throughout and with a deep central furrow. Elytra very 

 -broadly ovate m the 6 , the basal margination slight, the strife 

 narrow and finely punctured, the intervals broad, almost plane 

 and with dense short erect seta>. 



Length, 3^ mm.; breadth, 2 mm. 



Baluchistan : Kaha Pass. 



Ti/pe (S in the British Museum. 



143. Leptomias scrobicollis, sp. nov. 



Black, with uniform earth-brown scalino-. 



^mc^ closely punctate, the forehead depressed and with a narrow 

 central furrow as broad as that on the rostrum. Hostrum nar- 

 rowed from the base to the middle, plane and rugulose above. 

 Aniennce chestnut, the scape reaching the posterior margin of the 

 eye joints 3 and 4 of the f unicle equal. Frothonuv about as broad 

 as long, the sides rounded, broadest at the middle, the apical 

 margin straight and scarcely narrower than the base, deeply and 

 rugosely punctured throughout and with a deep narrow central 

 furrow. El>,tnc oblong-ovate, the basal margination slight, the 

 apex normal deeply and broadly punctato-striate, the intervals 

 not broader than the striae and slightly convex, the setaj very short 

 and suberect. Legs black, the femora rather stout, the posterior 

 tibuTB serrate only near the apex. 



Length, 4-4^ mm.; breadth, 2 mm. 



Kashmir ( T. R. D. Bell). 



Type 6 in the British Museum. 



144. Leptomias elongatulus, sp. nov. 



Colour piceous, with brownish-grey scaling. 



Head closely and shallowly punctate, with *a fine central stria. 

 Jxostrum parallel-suled, plane above and with a deep narrow central 

 furrow. Antennoi light chestnut, the scape reaching the posterior 

 margin of the eye, joints 3 and 4 of the funicle equal. Prothorax 

 as iong as broad, the sides rounded, broadest rather behind the 

 middle the apex narrower than the base, very finely sculptured in 

 the middle of the disk and more coarsely granulate at the sides, 

 the central furrow narrow but distinct. Eh,tra narrowly elongate, 

 the basal elevation slight, distinctly punctato-striate, the intervals 

 narrow and convex, the set® short, sparse and erect 



Length, 4-b mm.; breadth, \h-V\ mm. 



N. India. 



T^jpe c? in the British Museum. 



145, Leptomias jekeli. Est. 



Leptomias jekeli, Faust,* Stettin. Ent. Zeit. 1886, p. 13o. 

 Colour black, with uniform sand-coloured scaling. 

 Head closely and shallowly punctate, the forehead with a fine 



