378 Mr. Baly's descriptions of 



9 Facie tridentata, dente iutermedio nou compresso, apico 

 acuto. 



Hab. Jhelam "Valley. 



Head exserted ; vertex smooth, impuuctate ; face excavated 

 between the eyes, clothed with hairs, tridentate, the middle tooth 

 compressed and deflexed in the $ , conical in the ? ; clypeus 

 transverse, impressed at the apex on either side in the $ with a 

 deep fovea ; apex of jaws nigro-piceous ; antennae slender, 

 clotlied with coarse suberect hairs, second and third joints 

 nearly eqnal in the $ , the third one-half longer than the second 

 in the ^ • Thorax about three times as broad as long ; sides 

 parallel and slightly sinuate behind the middle, obliquely con- 

 verging from the middle to the apex, the anterior angles slightly 

 produced, obtuse, the hinder ones obtusely angulate ; upper 

 surface moderately convex, the lateral margin rather broadly 

 reflexed, disc irregularly excavated ; finely but not very closely 

 punctured, interspaces minutely granulose-strigose. Scutellum 

 trigonate, shining black. Elytra broader than the thorax, oblong, 

 moderately convex, faintly excavated below the basilar space, 

 more strongly punctured than the thorax, the punctures pale 

 fuscous. 



17. Miinastra fjracilis, n. sp. 



EloDgata, attenuata, pallide flava, uitida, antennis basi excep- 

 tis, f uscis, oculis nigris, genubus tarsisque piceis ; thorace 

 transverse, basi emarginato, disco irregulariter excavato, lateri- 

 bus late marginatis, ante medium angulatis, elytris parallclis, 

 tenuiter j^unctatis. Long. 3 lin. 



Ilab. Murree. 



Head strongly exserted ; encarpte and clypeus thickened, the 

 former bounded above by a transverse groove, trigonate, con- 

 tiguous for their whole length ; antennae very slender, filiform, 

 nearly equal to the body in length, second joint about half the 

 length of the basal one, nearly a third shorter than the third, 

 three basal joints pale flavous, the rest pale fuscous. Thorax 

 transverse ; sides broadly margined, nearly parallel, distinctly 

 angled just beyond the middle, thence obliquely converging to 

 the apex ; disc broadly and irregularly excavated, impunctate. 

 Scutellum trigonate. Elytra broader than the thorax, parallel, 

 elongate ; disc very minutely punctured, very faintly Avrinkled. 

 Outer edge of knees, together with the tarsi pale piceous. 



