460 Mr. Baly's descriptiuna of 



Genus OCHRALEA, Clark. 

 1. Ochralea n/f/ricornis, Clark. 

 Hab. The Lower Hills. 



Genus iiylaspes, Baly. 

 1. Iljilaspes Asffamensis, n. sp. 



Oblouga, convexa, pallide fulva, ultida, tlbiis tarsis, culis 

 autennisque extrorsum nigris ; tliorace transverso, lateribus 

 I'ectis, disco lajvi, utrinque profaude trausversim excavate ; 

 elytris teuulter puuctatis, utrisque plagu suffusu magna a vix 

 pone medium fere ad apicem extenssl, fusca instructis. Long. 

 4i-5 lin. 



Mas. Antenna? corpore ajquilongaj. 



Feem. ,, ,, breviores. 



Var. A. (fa'i/i.) elytris totis ilavis. 



Hab. The Plains. 



Vertex smooth, nearly impunctate, being only imjn-essed on 

 either side with a few fine punctures ; encarpa? transverse, 

 curved, not contiguous ; carina thickened, trigouate, its apex 

 extending upwards between the encarpa? ; eyes large, prominent, 

 shining black ; antenna; ecpial in length to the body in the $ , 

 rather shorter in the 9 > the second and third joints very short 

 and equal in the former sex, slightly longer in the latter, the 

 third in this sex being nearly one-half longer than the second, 

 the fourth to the ninth joints in both sexes compressed, very 

 narrowly dilated, narrowly elongate-trigonate, the upper internal 

 angles produced, acute, the three upper joints, together with 

 the apex of the preceding one, l)lack. Thorax nearly three 

 times as broad as long ; sides straight and parallel, the anterior 

 angles broadly and ol)li(]uely truncate, thickened, the outer end 

 in the $ produced laterally into a small acute tooth ; disc 

 smooth and shining, impressed on either .side on the medial line 

 with a deep transverse groove, which extends from just without 

 the middle disc nearly to the lateral margin. Scutellum longer 

 than broad, trigonate. Elytra much -broader than the thorax, 

 T)roadly oblong; their sides parallel, their apices broadly rounded ; 

 disc convex, each elytron impressed just within the hinneral 

 callus with a short longitudinal row of deep punctures, the rest 

 of the surface minutely punctured. 



