SEBASMIA. 



143 



II. Eijes emarrjlnate ; third antenmd joint sJiorter than fifth. 

 145. Dialeges undulatiis, Gahan, A. M. N. II. (6) vii, p. 23 (1891). 



Pitchy brown, varyiug on the elytra to reddish brown in the 

 colour of the derm'; a covering of greyish pubescence, which 

 is denser and more glossy on the elytra, there also with broad 

 patches or bands oi varying shades, like 

 watered silk, accoiding to the inc-ideuce 

 of thi; light. Head slightlv elongated 

 behind the eyes ; the hitter deeply emar- 

 ginate in front, not divided as they are 

 in the type si)ecies. Antennae of the 

 male twice as "long as the body, fringed 

 with hairs under tlie third and succeeding 

 joints ; third joint shorter than the fifth ; 

 iifth to seventh subequal ; eighth to tenth 

 gradually diminishing in length, and 

 united scarcely longer than the eleventh; 

 antenna) of the female a little longer than 

 the body, with ti.e eleventh joint very 

 little longer than the tenth. Prothorax 

 longer than broad in both sexes, slightly 

 rounded on each side, constricted at the 

 base and apex ; transversely and not very strongly wrinkled 

 above, with a line or band bare of pubescence along the middle. 

 Elytra conjointly rounded and unarmed at tlie apex. 



This species, though it has a strong resemblance in shape and 

 coloration to D. pauper, Pasc, the type of the genus, is easily 

 distinguished from it by the following well-marked structural 

 characters : — the head less elongated behind the eyes : the eyes 

 not divided ; the third joint of the antennae shorter than the fifth ; 

 the elvtra rounded and unarmed at the apex. 

 Length 16-21 ; breadth 3j-5 mm. 

 Hah. Ceylon ; Burma ; tSiani. 



Fig. 56. — Dialeges 

 undulatus, Gahan. X ". 



Genus SEBASMIA. 



Sebasmia, Pascoe, Tram. Ent. Soc. (2) v, p. 18 (1839) ; Lacord. Gen, 

 Coleopt. viii, p. 272 (1809). 



Type, 'S^. templetoni, Pasc. 



Brnige. Ceylon and Southern India. 



Eyes large, emarginate, closely approxiniate above and not very 

 widelv separnted on the ventral side of the head ; genae short. 

 Antennae about one-fourth longer than the body in the S : third 

 and fourth joints slightly thickened at the apex, third about one- 

 fourth longer than the fourth and shorter than the fifth ; fifth to 

 tenth compressed and sharply angulate in front at the apex. 

 Prothorax longer than broad, narrowed anteriorly from the middle,. 



