188 CUECULI0I^1D.1\ 



broad and with large punctures, the intervals narrow and with 

 •depressed short setae. 



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



jN". India. 



Type S iii the British Museum. 



156. Leptomias bimaculatus, Fst. 



Leptomias bimaculatus, Faust,* Stettin. Ent. Zeit. 1886, p. 132. 



Colour black, with dense light brown scaling, the elytra with a 

 paler quadrate patch behind the middle on intervals 3-5. 



Very similar in general appearance to L. audax, Fst., $ , but 

 dili'ering in the following characters : — Head with, a deep central 

 stria ascending to the vertex. Prothorax more narrowed in front, 

 broadest a little behind the middle, with low granules on the disk 

 and with a deep narrow central furrow. Elytra with the basal 

 margin scarcely raised, the external angles not projecting, the 

 striae deeper and with the punctation less distinct, stria 9 more 

 broadly impressed than the others, the intervals more convex and 

 with short erect setae. 



Length, Q-Q\ mm. ; breadth, 3-3| mm. 



PuxJAB : Murree {Stoliczka). 



Type 5 iu the Dresden Museimi. 



157. Leptomias audax, Fst. 



Leptomias audax, Faust,* Stettiu. Eut. Zeit. 1S86, p. 134. 



Colour black, with dense brownish-grey scaling, the prothorax 

 with a broad central darker stripe, the elytra with an ill-deiiued 

 small paler patch at the base of interval 4 and a large sub- 

 quadrate one behind the middle on intervals 3-5, the latter being 

 bordered in front and behind by a vague darker nuxrkiug. 



Head finely shagreened, the torehead with a short central stria 

 which does not ascend the vertex. Rostrum slightly longer than 

 broad, its sides subparallel, almost plane above and with only a 

 narrow central stria, the dorsal margins rounded. Antennce with 

 the scape not reaching the posterior margin of the eye, the 

 funicle with joint 3 about as long as 4 and much shorter than 2, 

 7 subconical and about as long as broad. Prothorax slightly 

 transverse, the sides strongly rounded, broadest at the middle, the 

 apex a little narrower than the base, the upper surface with the 

 sides closely granulate, the centre of tlie disk shallowly foveolate, 

 with a narrow and abbreviated central stria in the $ and a broader 

 longer furrow iu the 6 • Elytra ovate in the J , bi-oadly ovate in 

 the $ , the base sinuate and distinctly marginate, the basal angles 

 projecting laterally, the punctures in the striae showing distinctly 

 through the scaling, the intervals much broader than the striae, 

 almost piano and with depressed short setae. Legs with the hind 

 tibiae of the $ with small rather distinct granules, those of the 



