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beneath wilh marginal spots to sme, ochraceous ; apical joint of 

 antennaî, and posterior femora, piceous. The pronotum is roundly 

 and mucli dilated, with reflexed, concave, memiîranous margins, 

 which are subvertical, shell-like and roun(ied; head uncovered ; 

 the globular élévations to discoidal area of elyti'a presenling a small 

 central concave spot. 



Long, body 4 mill.; to apex elytra 5 mil!.; exp. pronotum 

 3 mill. 



Hab. : Nilgiri Hills (Sir G. F. Hampson). 



Belonging to the ecltii group of the genus. 



Genus PHYLLOiNTOCHIL.V 



Monanlhia subg. Pliijllonloclieila Fiehev, Ent. Mon., p. 59 (1844). 

 Phyllontochila Slâl, En. Hem,, HI, pp. 120 and 128 (1873). 

 Sakuntala Kirkal., Journ. Bomb. N. H. Soc, XIV, p. 298 (1902). 



Phyllontochila ravana. 



Sakuntala ravana Kirkal., Journ. Bomb. N. H. Soc, XIV, p. 299 

 (1902). 



Mr.E. E. Green of Ceylon has sent me a nice séries of Ihis species. 



Fam. PHYMATîDiE. 



CarcinocheHs perpugnax sp. n. — Vcry dark castaneous or 

 purplish-brown ; latéral and apical margins of scutellum, corium — 

 excluding base and apex, connexivum, abdomen beneath and legs, 

 ochraceous; connexivum wilh a central transverse subquadrate 

 piceous spot about middle, and a similar but smaller spot near 

 apex; eyes pale castaneous; antennœ wilh the basai joint uniformly 

 incrassate, second joint short thickly pedunculate, third joint about 

 as long as the second and gradually apically Ihickened, fourth joint 

 longest, elongately globose, attenuated at base and apex ; head finely 

 granulate, the latéral margins thickly spinously granulate, with a 

 central longitudinal séries of granulous spines, two or three near 

 apex being robust and prominent; pronotum with the latéral 

 margins denticulale, a strong spine at anterior angles, latéral 

 angles broadly subobtusely produced, their margins denticulale, 

 with a more prominent contrai spine, the surface coarsely granu- 

 late wilh two discal carinœ; margins of scutellum very finely 

 serrale; connexivum ampliated, moderately recurved, gradually 



