NEW SPECIES OF INDIAN PHYTOPHAGA- 129 



and flattened at the middle and likewise curved, their apex produced, 

 the metatarsus short and subtriangular; the second joint very 

 elongate, third joint deeply bilobed, claws bifid, abdomen black, 

 the median lobe of the last segment longitudinally grooved, more 

 or less fulvous. 



Hab. Mandar, Bengal. 



This curiously structured species of which only male specimens 

 are before me differs totally from any of its allies in the structure 

 of the antennae and that of the legs, but in no other way from 

 Ho}ilasoma; the proportionate length of the posterior tarsi is quite 

 exceptional and I cannot call to mind another instance in which 

 the second joint is of such elongate shape; the dilated antenna:; are 

 also not to be found in another species of the genus, but it is 

 more than probable that these abnormal conditions are only pecu- 

 liar to the male sex. 



MALAXIA ORIENTALIS n. sp. 



Flavous, the head with one, the thorax with three fuscous spots, 

 antennae (the basal joints excepted) and the scutellum fuscous, 

 elytra metallic green, finely rugose and pubescent, the extreme 

 sutural and lateral margins aureous. 



Length 5-6 mill. 



Head flavous, finely rugose, the vertex with a large, elongate 

 fuscous spot, the clypeus in shape of a transverse ridge which 

 extends upwards between the antennae, the latter extending beyond 

 the middle of the elytra, fuscous, the basal two or three joints 

 flavous, third joint half the length of the fourth one, thorax twice 

 as broad as long, the sides feebly rounded, the surface slightly 

 transversely sulcate, finely rugose, flavous, with a fuscous spot at 

 the middle and another at each side, the disc clothed with short 

 pubescence, scutellnm fuscous ; elytra bright metallic green, clothed 

 with very short pubescence, the surface finely rugose or wrinkled, 

 the sutural and lateral margins very narrowly reddish-cupreous; 

 below and the legs flavous. 



This species can '=icnrcely be separated from M. M«rs/mZ??Jac. from 

 Mashonaland, except by the shorter thorax and pubescence of the 

 elytra, the latter are also more strongly rugose than is the case in 

 the African insect and the under side in flavous instead of black; 

 from other nearly similarly Eastern species the present one differs 

 in not having the entire head black. 



