82 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



the clypeus strongly raised, deflexed anteriorly, more or less flavous, 

 as well as the labrum and the palpi ; antenna extending beyond the 

 middle of the elytra, black, the lower four or five joints more or less 

 flavous, third and fourth joints equal, both not much longer than the 

 second joint, the latter thickened ; thorax about one-half broader than 

 long, slightly narrowed anteriorly, the sides straight, the anterior 

 angles produced, the surface finely and somewhat closely punctured, 

 the basal transverse sulcus obsolete ; elytra much more distinctly and 

 rather closely punctured, the interstices very slightly wrinkled here and 

 there ; below and the legs piceous, sparingly pubescent, the posterior 

 femora strongly incrassate, the spine at the apex of the posterior 

 tibiae large. 



Hab. Khasia Hills. 



One of the smallest species of the genus, which may be 

 known from other Eastern forms in the piceous, not blue, under 

 surface and legs, the flavous basal joints of the antennae, and 

 the obsolete transverse sulcus of the thorax. I have received 

 several specimens from Dr. Kraatz. 



Podagrica ceylonensis, sp. nov. 



Pale flavous or testaceous ; thorax with a few minute punctures, 

 the base with a perpendicular groove at the sides ; elytra finely punc- 

 tate-striate. Length, 2 mill. 



Head entirely impunctate, obliquely grooved above the eyes, frontal 

 tubercles obsolete ; clypeus triangular ; palpi slender ; antennas flavous, 

 extending to the middle of the elytra, the third and fourth joints equal, 

 the following scarcely longer, the terminal joint thickened and elongate ; 

 thorax twice as broad as long, the sides rounded before the middle, 

 constricted at the apex, anterior angles slightly oblique, posterior ones 

 acute, the disc convex, with a few very minute punctures, the basal 

 margin with a well-marked longitudinal groove at each side, the base 

 narrowly marginate ; elytra slightly widened at the middle, wider at the 

 base than the thorax, regularly and finely punctate-striate, the inter- 

 stices very slightly convex ; under side and legs flavous ; prosternum 

 narrow and elongate. 



Hab. Ceylon. 



A very small species of uniform coloration, and probably 

 identical with one of Motschulsky's unrecognisable Ceylon 

 insects, of which I hope the above description will give a better 

 idea. The species might perhaps equally well be placed in 

 Nisotra. In the collection of the Oxford Museum and my own. 



Haplosoma sexmaculata, sp. nov. 



Pale fulvous ; the antennas (the basal joints excepted), the breast 

 and abdomen, and the tarsi piceous : thorax sulcate, impunctate ; 

 elytra finely rugose-punctate, flavous, a spot near the middle and two 

 others near the apex of each, black. Length, 8 mill. 



Narrow and elongate, the head impunctate, frontal elevations 

 strongly raised, trigonate ; clypeus triangular ; antennas nearly ex- 



