•NEW SPECIES OF INDIAN PIIYTOPHAGA 133 



fulvous hairs, below and the legs flavous, the latter very elongate, 

 as well as the first joint of the posterior tarsi. 



Hab. India. 



This species is easily distinguished from the other two at present 

 known, by the black colour of the elytra; five specimens are con- 

 tained in my collection. 



^NIDEA BENGALENSIS n. sp. 



Fulvous, antenn&e and legs flavous, thorax bifoveolate, im- 

 punctate, elytra very finely and closely punctured. 



Mas. Head deeply excavated above the clypeus, the interior of the 

 excavation with a curved process; the basal joint of the antenna? 

 with a thick fringe of hairs. 



Length 6 mill. 



Head impunctate, the frontal elevations narrowly transverse, 

 palpi scarcely thickened, antennee extending nearly to the apex of 

 the elytra, flavous, the basal joint thickened, piceous at the base 

 and provided with a thick fringe of dark hairs, the second joint 

 short, the third distinctly longer than the fourth joint, this and 

 the following joints pqnal ; thorax pubquadrate, one half broader 

 than long, disilii' tly narrowed at the base, the disc bifoveolate, im- 

 punctate, elytra slightly wider .it the base than the thorax, fulvous 

 with a faint greenish seneous lustre, the surface finely and closely 

 punctured, the punctures here and there indistinctly arranged In 

 double or treble rows, with faint traces of longitudinal costse near 

 Ih'^ base, the latter very feebly depres-ed, legs flavous, the first joint 

 of the posterior tarsi as long as t?ie following two joints together, 

 tibise unarmed, anterior coxal cavities closed. 



Hah. Mandar, Bengal. 



Closely allied to A. rufofulva .Jac. likewise from Bengal but quite 

 distinct in structural details in regard to the male; the palpi in the 

 present insect are but slightly incrassate and in all the specimens 

 the basal joint of the antenna3 is coloured as given above and with 

 the thick pubescence. Another closely allied species, A. pilicomu 

 Jac. from Bombay has a similar excavated head, but the basal pro- 

 jection within is wanting, the first joint of the antenna? is only spa- 

 ringly pubescent, the third joint is equal to the fourth in length and 

 all the joints are furnished with single long spinelike hairs at the 

 apex; female specimens of the present insect differ in having 

 simple, entirely flavous antennae and a normally structured clypeus, 

 the anterior margin of which is perfectly straight, in all other 

 respect this sex agrees with the male. 



