100 



tarsi, fulvous, thorax distinctly and subremotely punctured, elytra 

 regularly punctate-striate. 



Length 2 mill. 



Head distinctly but remotely punctured at the anterior portion, 

 the clypeus not separated from the face, labrum obscure fulvous, 

 antennEC short, black, the lower five joints fulvous, the terminal 

 seven joints short, thickened and submoniliform, the second, third 

 and fourth joints nearly equal; thorax strongly transverse, the sides 

 rounded, the anterior portion deflexed, the basai margin produced 

 at the middle into a short broadly rounded lobe, the surface evenly 

 but not closely punctured, the puncturing somewhat finer and 

 closer at the sides, scutellum subovate, impunctate; elytra convex, 

 not depressed below the base, rather strongly punctate-striate, the 

 interstices flat, impressed hère and there with a few minute punc- 

 tures; the legs piceous, the apex of the tibiae and the tarsi fulvous, 

 the intermediate and posterior tibise emarginate at the apex, claws 

 appendiculate, the anterior margin of the thoracic episternum 

 concave. 



A closely allied species on which this genus was founded, bas 

 been described by Lefèvre from the Island of Bintang in the 

 Malayan Archipelago; the Indian species agrées structurally in 

 every particular but difïers in the colour of the antennse and that of 

 the legs, in the want of an elytral dépression and in the punctualion 

 being distinct to the apex of the elytra; the gênerai appearance of 

 thèse insects is entirely that of a species of Chrysodina or Nodonota 

 from which the emarginate tibiae at once distinguish them. 



NEPHRELLA ANDREWESI sp. n. 



Elongate, parallel, below blackish, the basai joints of the antennae, 

 the head, thorax and legs flavous, elytra fuscous, finely pubescent 

 and extremely finely punctured. 



Length 3 mill. 



Head finely and sparingly punctured and pubescent, the vertex 

 often obscure piceous, the clypeus not separated from the face, its 

 anterior portion deflexed, the anterior margin concave at the 

 middle, penultimate joint of the maxillary palpi incrassate, antennse 

 filiform, nearly as long as the body, black, the lower four joints 

 flavous, third and following joints elongate, equal, second one, a 

 third smaller; thorax subquadrate, the latéral margins obsolète, the 

 dise obliquely sulcate near the base at each side, finely and 

 sparingly punctured, clothed with pale fulvous hairs, near the 

 anterior margin there is another transverse obsolète dépression; 

 elytra much wider at the base than the thorax, fuscous or flavous, 



