NEW SPECIES OF INDIAN PHYTOPHAGA 131 



antennae closely approached at the base, extending to the middle of 

 the elytra, the basal joint elongate, the second short, the third and 

 fourth equal, terminal joints shorter ; thorax subquadrate, all the 

 margins straight, the anterior angles tuberculate, the surface clo- 

 sely punctate rugose throughout and pubescent, with a deep fovea 

 at each side, scutellum broad, its apex broadly rounded, elytra 

 broader at the base than the thorax, punctured Uke the thorax 

 and finely rugose and wrinkled throughout, the apical margins 

 obscure testaceous, as well as the epipleurse, the surface clothed 

 with fine while pubescence; legs flavous, the knees and tibiae 

 black. 

 Hab. Birmah. (Collection M"" Andrewes and my own.) 



SASTROIDES TIBIALIS n. sp. 



Broad and robust, testaceous, clothed with fine fulvous pubes- 

 cent, the antennae (the basal two joints excepted) and the tibiae 

 and tarsi black, thorax with three depressions, remotely punctu- 

 red, elytra extremely closely and finely punctured and finely 

 pubescent. 



Length 9-11 mill. 



Head rugosely punctured, the frontal tubercles highly raised, 

 clypeus in shape of an acutely raised ridge, deflexed anteriorly, 

 palpi strongly incrassate, antennae extending slightly beyond the 

 middle of the elytra, black, the basal two joints flavous, third 

 joint very long, distinctly longer than the following joints; thorax 

 more than twice as broad as long, the sides straight at the base, 

 forming a distinct angle before the middle, anterior angles slightly 

 produced, the disc with a lateral transverse and another smaller 

 basal depression, strongly but remotely punctured, shining, non 

 pubescent, scutellum closely punctured, elytra very convex, the 

 apex of each strongly rounded, finely and exceedingly closely 

 punctured and clothed with short fulvous pubescence, their epi- 

 pleurae broad and concave at the base, disappearing below the 

 middle, below and the legs testaceous, shining and impunctate, 

 the tibiae, and tarsi black, the first joint of the posterior tarsi as 

 long as the following joints together, claws bifid. 



Hab. Silhet, India, also Assam. 



Of this species, two specimens are contained in my collection; 

 although they are closely allied to several others placed in this 

 genus, they differ in one or more details; S. indicus Jac. has fulvous 

 antennae and less closely punctured elytra, the legs also are fulvous; 

 S. unkolor Jac. differs in having longer antennae, narrow elytral 

 epipleurse and white, not fulvous pubescence, lastly S. binnanica 



