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pale fuscous mottlings ; body beneath and legs pale ochraceous, 

 posterior femora apically black, tibia? spotted with black, and from 



Fig. lri5.^B(i(Ic-ori/s ti/fianiis. 



these spots on the posterior tibiae the spinules arise in pairs, all 

 the spinules black, apices of tarsi black ; other characters as in 

 generic diagnosis. 



Length 3 millim. 



Hah. Punjab ; Lahore {AnnandaJe). 



Genus ACRATHEUS. 

 Acratheus, Dist. A. M. N. H. (8) v, p. 16 (1910). 



Type, A, nocturnus, Dist. 



Distribution. Bengal. 



Head about as long as broad, strongly depressed anteriorly, a 

 little centrally foveately impressed between the eyes, which are 

 of moderate size, reach the base of head, and obliquely slightly 

 project beyond the anterior margins of the pronotum ; antennae 

 slender, first joint almost as long as head, second twice as long as 

 first, third and fourth subequal in length, each a little shorter 

 than second ; rostrum robust, reaching the intermediate coxae ; 

 pronotum anteriorly deflected at a short distance from base, 

 thickly strongly punctate, the lateral margins acute, at base twice 

 as broad as long and about one and a half times as broad as 

 anterior margin, anterior and posterior margins truncate, the 

 lateral margins oblique, posterior lateral angles subprominent ; 

 scutellum small, broad, subtriangular, a little longitudinally elevate 

 and on lateral areas punctate ; corium (including cuneus) as long 

 as posterior tibiae, including clavus thickly punctate, posteriorly 



