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A common form has 



(2) elytra immaculate dead black; 

 and there are two examples of 



(3) elytra largely pale dirty ochraceous, soiled with brownish ; cuneus blackish- 

 brown. 



There are intermediate forms between these. 

 The other parts vary as follows : 



(a) Abdomen from shining black to shining darkish-brown. 



(;8) Legs from entirely fuscotestaceous to pitchy-black. 



Some ot the males have a small spine near the apex of the anterior femora, and in 

 some examples, the embolium is not distinctly indicated. 

 ^ %. Long. 2| — 3^- mm. ; lat. |- — i^ mm. 



Nesidiocheilus, gen. nov. 



Head in front of eyes about equal to length of one eye. Ocelli between the eyes 

 and close to them. Two ultimate segments of antennae slender, more or less pilose. 

 Pronotal annulus scarcely discernible, lateral margins of pronotum narrowly reflexed 

 (at least in part). Base of scutellum opaque, pubescent ; metapleura without elevated 

 carina. Elytra minutely and closely irregularly punctured ; hamus of wing proceeding 

 from the connecting nervure. Third segment of posterior tarsi almost as long as first 

 and second together. 



I have unfortunately had to make a new genus from a single carded example. It 

 cannot be Lilia dclecta as that insect is said to be regularly impresso-punctate, and the 

 colouring is different. The anterior femora in Ahsidiochcihis are moreover unarmed, 

 though said to be toothed in Lilia. It is most closely allied to Lasiochilus Reuter, but 

 is at once distinguished by the punctured elytra. 



(i) Nesidiocheilus hazvaiiensis, sp. nov. 



Head, pronotum, scutellum, abdomen above and below (sterna ?), first and third 

 segments and ape.x of second segment of antennae — black or blackish ; base of second 

 segment of antennae, clypeus, cuneus, and corium apically, more or less darkly fumate. 

 Rest of elytra and the legs flavescent. 



Head (with eyes) one-third wider than long, verte.x nearly as wide as the eyes 



together. Head (with eyes) about as wide as the length of the second segment of 



antennae, which is thick, a little thicker apically than at the base. Base of pronotum 



sinuately emarginate, a little more than twice as wide as the head and eyes together, 



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