NEW SPECIES OF INDIAN PHYTOPHAGA 99 



very narrowly, the apex more broadly and a very obscure trans- 

 verse stripe at the middle, flavous. 



Length 5 mill. 



Head impunctate, shining, the upper portion black, obsoletely 

 transversely depressed between the eyes, the clypeus flavous, sepa- 

 rated from the face by a triangular depression, its anterior edge 

 deeply triangularly eraarginate, labrum piceous, antennae not exten- 

 ding to the middle of the thorax, black, the lower two or three joints 

 flavous; thorax transverse, twice as broad as long, the sides nearly 

 straight, as well as the margins, the angles not prominent, the sur- 

 face entirely impunctate, black or piceous, shining, the sides more 

 broadly, the anterior and posterior margins very narrowly flavous, 

 scutellum triangular, piceous, elytra with very fine and irregularly 

 arranged rows of punctures, black, this colour indistinctly divided 

 at the middle by a narrow obscure flavous transverse stripe, the 

 sides more distinctly but narrowly and the apex more broadly 

 flavous; legs of the latter colour, the femora more or less black, as 

 well as the under side. 



Hah. Shillong, India. (My collection.) 



This species will be easily known by its system of coloration 

 which is the same in the six specimens contained in my collection, 

 but it is probable that the black colour of the elytra is sometimes 

 divided in two patches, more distinctly so than is the case in my 

 specimens where the fulvous band which causes the division is 

 only just indicated. 



DAMIA FUSGITARSIS n. sp. 



Elongate and parallel, fulvous, the terminal joints of the antennae 

 and the tarsi fuscous or black; thorax entirely impunctate, elytra 

 very finely semiregularly punctured in closely approached rows. 



Length 6 mill. 



Head impunctate, rather deeply triangularly depressed between 

 the eyes, the clypeus moderately emarginate in front, eyes oblong, 

 sinuate at their lower portion, antennae extending to the base of 

 the elytra, black, the lower four joints fulvous or flavous, the fourth 

 and following joints triangularly dilated ; thorax twice as broad as 

 long, the sides strongly rounded, with a narrow reflexed margin, 

 posterior angles rounded, the median lobe very short, scarcely pro- 

 duced, the surface rather convex, entirely impunctate, very shi- 

 ning, scutellum triangular, pointed, elytra not wider at the base 

 than the thorax, with a moderately prominent lateral lobe below 

 the shoulders, the latter rather acute, very finely punctured in 

 Irregular closely approached rows, below closely covered with 



