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behind the scutellum ; the latter also in this genus being rela- 
tively very broad. 
PSEPHENOIDES, 0. gen. 
Head moderately exserted ; subvertical or somewhat backwardly 
inclined below; eyes convex, entire, rather finely facetted; antenne 
not widely separated, nearly as long as body in male, with the joints 
from the third increasing in length, and strongly flabellate, except 
the eleventh, which resembles the flabellun of the tenth; much 
shorter in the female, with the joints from the third serrate and 
gradually decreasing in length. Mandibles scarcely visible. Palpi 
slender and ending in a setiform joint; the maxillary about twice as 
long as the labial. Pronotum slightly convex above, turned down 
rather strongly at the sides, especially in front; basal margin broadly 
rounded in the middle, a little sinuate at each side, and making with 
the lateral margin an angle slightly greater than a right angle. 
Scutellum very broad, rounded behind. Elytra separated from one 
another, inner margins somewhat sinuate. Metanotum convex along 
the middle, marked with two very slightly curved, posteriorly con- 
verging grooves. Prosternal process triangular, pointed behind, but 
scarcely prolonged beyond the front coxw; the latter prominent, 
strongly transverse, with their acetabula widely open behind. Meso- 
sternal process broad, channelled along the middle. Legs long and 
slender, with very long tarsi, the first and fifth joint of which are 
much longer than either the second, third or fourth, which gradually 
diminish in length; claws long, with a slight ‘“feston” at base. 
Abdomen in both sexes with six ventral segments visible, the sixth 
being very small and narrow, the fourth strongly arcuate in the 
middle behind, the fifth nearly truncate behind. 
Type of the genus P. immsi. 
Psephenoides immst, sp. ni. 
Dull brownish black in colour, covered with a short faint pubes- 
cence. Femora yellowish, becoming dusky towards the tips, where 
the colour is nearly as dark as that of the tibiz and tarsi. Scutellum 
glossy. Wings, visible behind between the elytra, are dusky in 
colour. (In the female specimen figured, the wings were bulged out 
a little at the sides of the elytra where they show behind, but this 
condition is not normal.) In all the specimens seen by me the short, 
bead-like, second joint of the antenne is almost entirely yellowish in 
colour; but it would probably be darker in more matured specimens. 
Length, 9 34-4 mm. Breadth, 2 mm. 
Hab. Bhowali, Kumaon, 5700 ft., May 15th, 1912 (A. D. 
Imms). 
The male antenna figured is from a specimen taken at 
Lachiwala, near Dehra Dun, on February 8th, 1913; it is 
possible, as Dr. Imms thinks, that the specimens from this 
locality represent a distinct species. But I have not been able 
to detect any appreciable difference between specimens from the 
two localities. The type of the species is a female specimen 
from Bhowali. 
