LEPTOMIAS. 



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stria. Rostrum slightly widei)ed towards the apex, rugulose above, 

 with a broad impression ou the basal half containing a short 

 fnrrow. Antennce blackish, the scape reaching the middle of the 

 eye, the fuuicle with joints 3 and 4 equal. Prothorax a little 

 broader than long, the sides moderately rounded, broadest about 

 the middle, the apex not much narrower than the base, the apical 

 margin straight dorsally, slighlly obhque at the sides, the ui)per 

 surface smooth and finely shagreened on the disk, a little more 

 rugose at the sides and with no central stria. Elytra elongate, 



Fig. 58. — Leptomias sfoliczl-ce, Fst., $ . 



with the basal margin conspicuously raised and the external angles 

 slightly prominent, transversely impressed close to the apex, so that 

 the apex itself appears rather prominent, subdepressed above, with 

 shallowly punctured striie, the two nearest the suture curving a 

 little outwards at the base, the intervals a little broader than the 

 stria; and rather convex. Legs with the posterior tibiae very 

 minutely denticulate internally. 



Lemjth, 6 7^-8, 2 7i-9 mm. : breadth, S 2f-2|, $ 3|-4i mm. 



IvASHMiB (Stoliczl-a, T. B. D. Bell). Punjab: Murree (/S7o?(Vc/.-« 

 — Ind. Mus.). 



Type in the Dresden Museum. 



147. Leptomias veiTucicollis, Fst. 



Leptomias verrucicollis, Faust,* Stettiu. Ent. Zeit. 1886, p. 138. 



Colour black, with uniform earth-brown scaling. 



Head rather coarsely shagreened, the forehead faintly striolate 

 and with a short central stria, liostrum dilated at the apex, plane 

 above in the anterior half, with a broad transverse impression near 

 the base, and thence finely striolate, with a short central furrow 

 and the dorsal margins rather sharply angulated. Antennce red- 

 brown, the scape reaching the middle of the eye, the funicle with. 



