274 CEEAMBTCID^. 



shorter, the posterior spots are different, and the legs and antennae 

 are black. 



322. Rhaphuma fulgurata, sp. n. 



Head and prothorax black, densely covered with yellowish-grey 

 pubescence; prothorax -v^-ith two small, closely approximated, black 

 spots just before the middle of the disc, another small black spot 

 placed a little farther forwards on each side. Elytra chocolate- 

 brown, tomentose, marked with bands of yellow pubescence as 

 follows — (1) a short longitudinal band on the disc at the base ; 

 (2) a band made up of an obloug sutural spot, narrowly united 

 posteriorly to an oblique discal spot ; (3) a band behind the middle 

 which runs obliquely for\^"ards and outwards from the suture to 

 the edge of the disc, and is then bent obliquely backwards towards 

 the outer margin, this band is prolonged posteriorly at the suture, 

 and a very narrow sutural band extends from it in front so as to 

 reach the anterior sutural spot ; (4) a transverse or slightly curved 

 band at a little more than one-fifth from the apex, continued along 

 the suture up to the apex. Body beneath brownish black, covered 

 with yellowish-grey pubescence ; antennae and legs ferruginous red. 

 Antennae slightly longer than the body in the J , extending to the 

 apical third of the elytra in the $ . Prothorax oblong-ovate, with 

 an asperate carina along the middle of the disc. Elytra three 

 times as long as broad, somewhat obliquely truncate at apex. The 

 hind femora extend a little past the apex of the elytra in the c? , 

 not to the apex in the 5 . Eirst joint of hind tarsi twice as long 

 as the second and third united. 



Lemitli 15-17| ; breadth 3:|-4 mm. 



Hah. Sikhim. 



323. Rhaphuma manipurensis, sp. n. 



Narrow and elongate ; black ; densely covered with pubescence, 

 which is of a greenish-yellow colour on the prothorax and elytra, 

 paler yellow on the head and on the body beneath. Elytra marked 

 each with (1) three small black spots near the base — one on the 

 shoulder, one a little farther back near tbe suture, the third in a 

 line with the shoulder at about one-fourth from the base ; (2) a 

 narrow, sinuous, black band behind the middle, Mhich is continued 

 forward for some distance as a sutural band ; (3) an oblique black 

 band at about one-fourth from the apex ; legs and antennae tes- 

 taceous. The antennae extend to the middle of the elytra in the 

 2 , not far beyond it in the S . The hind femora reach to the 

 apex of the elytra in the 5 , a little past it in the (S . Eirst 

 joint of hind tarsi nearly twice as long as the second and third 

 united. 



Variation. The submedian and posterior black bauds on the 

 elytra are somewhat variable ; the submedian band is sometimes 

 reduced to a small crescentic spot, and the posterior band to a 



