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sides, which are almost bare of pubescence ; the disc with a sliort 

 median carina and two small spots before the middle, bare of 

 pubescence. Elytra a little wider at the base than the base of 

 the prothorax, gradually but very slightly wider posteriorly 

 and attain their greatest width a little before the apex ; apices 

 broadly truncate, with a stronger outer and shorter sutural tooth ; 

 the disc of each with a broad obtuse costa that runs along it in a 

 slightly oblique direction, near the shoulder in front and near 

 the suture posteriorly. Tlie body beneath, coloured like the upper- 

 side, is faintly pubescent ; tlie luetathoracic episterna are long 

 and rather narrow, parallel-sided in the anterior four-fifths of 

 their length and narrowed posteriorly. The abdomen is as broad 

 behind as in front, with the last ventral segment somewhat sinuate 

 at the apex. 



Lenrftli 16; breadth 8 mm. 



Hah. Ceylon. 



148. Sebasmia nigra, sp. n. 



c? . Long and narrow. Entirely black, with a short ashy-grey 

 pubescence that covers the body beneath, the legs and the greater 

 part of the antennae, and is faintly visible ou the upperside. 

 Head finely rugulose-punctate, with a somewhat granulate ap- 

 pearance above. Autennre a little longer than the body ; first 

 joint closely and finely punctured, marked with a narrow cicatrix 

 and carina at the apex ; third about one-third longer than the 

 first or fourth ; fifth to tenth subequal in length to the third ; 

 each denticulately produced at the apex in front ; eleventh a little 

 longer than the tenth. Prothorax subcyh'ndrical, much longer 

 than broad, slightly constricted and marked with a transverse 

 groove near the apex, transversely and rather finely wrinkled over 

 the whole of the upper surface. Elytra parallel-sided, narrowed 

 and truncate at the apex, finely and very closely punctured through- 

 out, but somewhat less finely near the base. Hind femora extend 

 a little beyond the hind margin of the second abdominal segment ; 

 first joint of hind tarsus as long as the next two united. 



Lenr/th 14 ; breadth 2| mm. 



Hah. Nilgiri Hills (H. L. Andreives). 



Genus TRACHYLOPHUS. 



Trachylophus, Ga/um, A. M. ^\ H. (6) ii, p. 59 (1888). 



Type, T. sinensis, Gahan. 



Ranr/e. South China, Burma, and Java. 



Head with the antennal supports somewhat depressed and 

 separated by a narrow groove, the vertex impressed Mith a median 

 groove. Antennae about equal in length to the body in the $ and 

 only a little longer in the J ; third and fourth joints cyhndrical, 

 scarcely thickened at the apex, the fourth much shorter than the 

 third ; fifth longer than the third, cylindrical at base, compressed 



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