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rotundatis, disco lajvi, modice couvexo ; elytrls teuuitei- confuse 

 puuctatis. Long, 1^ lin. 

 Hab. Murree. 



Vertex and front shining, impunctate ; eucarpai transverse, 

 contiguous ; antennai half the length of the body, second and 

 third joints equal, the fourth nearly twice the length of the 

 third, three lower joints nigro-piceous, stained Avith a3neous, the 

 rest black. Thorax broader than long ; sides converging from 

 the middle towards the base, the anterior angles slightly pro- 

 duced, obtuse, the hinder ones rounded, armed with a very small 

 acute tooth: disc moderately convex, very minutely punctured, 

 the punctures only visible under a very strong lens. Scutellum 

 trigonate. Elytra broader than the thorax, parallel, finely but 

 not closely punctured, the interspaces obsoletely wrinkled. 



MACRIJIA, u. gen. 



Corpus anguste oblongum, convexum. Caput exsertum ; 

 antennis filiformibus, articulo primo duobus sequentibus con- 

 junctis a3quali, his brevibus, longitudine fere tequalibus ; oculis 

 snb-rotundatis, prominentibus ; encarpis medio contiguis ; carina 

 oVjsoleta; palpis maxillaribvis articulis duobus ultimis conjunctim 

 anguste ovatis, ultimo apice acuto. Thorax transversus, disco 

 leviter excavatus. Sciitellum trigowivtnm. Elytra thorace latiora, 

 oblonga, confuse punctata, limbo inflexo fere integro, concavo. 

 Pedes mediocres, coxis anticis elevatis, obtrigonatis, contiguis ; 

 tibiis apice mucronatis ; tarsis posticis articulo primo ad tres 

 sequentes fere aaquilongo; ■?m(7y/z'ci(Z?'.s" appendiculatis. Prosternum 

 medio angustissimum ; acetahulis anticis integris ; episttrnls 

 postic'is a basi ad apic^m angustatis. Type Macrvna armatit. 



Macrlma may be separated from Aidaco/iJioia, which genus 

 it strongly resembles in outer form, by the closed anterior 

 acetabula and by the appendiculated claws, 



16. Macriina arniafa, n. sp. 



Anguste oblonga, convexa, pallide liava, subnitida, pectore, 

 abdominis segmentis anticis tril)us basi, scutelloque nigris ; 

 thorace tenuiter punctato, utrinque leviter excavato ; elytris 

 distincte subcrebre puuctatis, punctis pallide f uscis ; utris(pie 

 super marginem basalem nigro maculatis. Long. 3^ lin, 



$ Facie tridentata, dente intennedio compresso, nigro, apice 

 deflexo ; clypeo utrin(|ue ad apicem foveolato. 



