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transverse central spot to costal membrane, and disk of apical 

 area, infuscated; head and sternum beneath dark castaneous; 

 legs and abdomen beneath, ochraceous; antennaî very finely and 

 obscurely pilose ; pronotum wilh the disk convexly gibbons, 

 distinctlyconstricted at anlerior margin ; elytra moderatelyconvexly 

 ampliated at latéral margins, narrowed towards apex. 



Long. 3 1/2 mill. 



Hab. : Tenasserim; Myitta(Doherty). 



CADAMUSTUS gen. nov. 



Elytra twice as long as the abdomen, broad, more or less widely 

 reliculated, broadly rounded at the apices where they are more or 

 less divergent; antennse slender, basai joint only a little shorter 

 than apical joint; rostrum passing the anterior coxse; head pointed 

 at Ihe apex, but unarmed ; pronotum wilh the latéral margins stron- 

 gly laminately and upwardly produced, the reticulations large and 

 the outer ones subquadrate, hood convex but compressed, trun- 

 cately altenuated anteriorly, covering head, connected posteriorly 

 with a similar pronotal élévation. 



Allied to Leptobyrsa, but wilh the head not frontally spinous, 

 and covered wilh hood; pronotal shield also différent. 



Gadamustus typicus sp. n. — Pale hyaline, the dark abdo- 

 men reflected Ihrough the elytra, the reticulations pale piceous, 

 body piceous, latéral margins of abdomen reddish-ochraceous; legs 

 and antennae very pale luteous, apical joint of antennas and the tarsi 

 pale ochraceous; the elytra bave opaline reflections, the reticula- 

 tions large and the areas ill defined or obsolète; hood laminately 

 conical. 



Long, body 2 mill. ; to apex of elytra 4 mill. 



Hab. : Ceylon; Pundalu-oya (E. E. Green). 



Gadamustus suffusus sp. n. — Pale creamy hyaline; poste- 

 rior disk of pronotum, and body as reflected above brownish-ochra- 

 ceous; margins of areolse to elytra and latéral areas of pronotum, 

 brownish-ochraceous ; elytra wilh opaline reflections and wilh a trans- 

 verse fascia near base, a small latéral spot beyond middle and a 

 transverse suboblique fascia extending from inner angle to near 

 outer marginal apex, brownish ochraceous; body beneath dark 

 brownish-ochraceous, legs very pale luteous; margins of pronotal 

 posterior elongation pale luteous. Antenn?e mutilated; in struc- 

 ture much resembly the proviously described species C. typicus. 



Long, body 1 1/2 mill. ; to apex of elytra 3 mill. 



Hab. : Ceylon ; Matale (E. E. Green). 



