100 NEW SPECIES OF INDIAN PHYTOPHAGA 



whitish pubescence, the legs rather robust, fulvous, the tarsi 

 nearly black, the first -joint shorter than the following two joints 

 together. 



Thorax of the female much less rounded at the sides, punctuation 

 of the elytra stronger. 

 Hah. Birmah. (Collection ¥•■ Andrewesand my own.) 

 This species must be closely allied to D. fiiscicornis Lac. with 

 which I would have identified it, had it not been for the colour of 

 the tarsi, which in all the ten specimens before me are nearly black 

 and of which Lacordaire says nothing; in some specimens, the sides 

 of the breast and abdomen are likewise more or less piceous. 



EUMOLPID^ 



XANTHONIA NIGRIPENNIS n. sp. 



Black, finely pubescent, the head, thorax and the legs fulvous, 

 head and thorax finely and closely punctured, elytra black, finely 

 pubescent and rugose. 



Length 5 mill. 



Head coarsely and closely punctured, the clypeus transversely 

 subquadrate, bounded at the sides by a ridge, its anterior margin 

 deflexed and emarginate, labrum fulvous, palpi elongate, fulvous, 

 antennae only extending a little beyond the base of the elytra, 

 black, the lower three joints fulvous, the third and the following 

 three joints elongate, of equal length, terminal joints shorter and 

 thicker; thorax nearly twice as broad as long, the sides rounded, 

 without distinct margins, except near the base, tlfe surface punc- 

 tured like the head and sparingly pubescent, obsoletely transversely 

 sulcate at the sides, scutellum truncate at the apex, fulvous, finely 

 punctured, elytra elongate, black, very finely rugosely punctured 

 and clothed with short grey pubescence, below black, the legs ful- 

 vous, the tibiae entire, claws bifid; prosternum narrowed between 

 the coxae. 



Distuingished from the only other known Indian species by the 

 black elytra. 



LEPROTELLA n. g. 



Body oblong, densely covered with scales, eyes small, entire, 

 antennae short, the terminal five joints widened; thorax subcylin- 

 drical, the lateral margins only distinct at the base, scutellum sub- 

 quadrate, its apex truncate, elytra wider than the thorax at the 



