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very finely and closely punctured and covered with longish, pale 

 hairs; below nearly black, legs slender, unarmed, prosternum very 

 narrow. 



The eyes in this species are not particularly reniform in shape, 

 as Baly describes them in his type, but they are slightly emarginate 

 and the olher characters agrée entirely wilh Nephrella. In the 

 Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) II, p. 283, Walker bas described an 

 insect under the name o( Ptinus lemoides ; this species belongs to 

 Nephrella and I am indebted to M. Gahan for drawing my attention 

 to this fact. 



NEPHRELLA BALYI sp. n. 



Oblong, rather broad, obscure fulvous or fuscous, pubescent, 

 apical joints of the antennse black, thorax broader than long, finely 

 punctured, transversely sulcate at the sides, elytra punctured like 

 the thorax, clothed with long grey pubescence. 



Length 5 mill. 



Head rather strongly and remotely punctured, the clypeus sub- 

 quadrate, eyes reniform, antennse slenders, black, the lower four 

 joints fulvous, third joint slightly shorter than the fourth; thorax 

 transverse, about one half broader than long, the latéral margins 

 obsolète, the surface very finely and closely punctured and pubes- 

 cent, wilh a transverse sulcus at the sides, scutellum finely punctu- 

 red, its apex truncate; elytra wider than the thorax at the 

 base, punctured similarly and clothed with rather long grey pubes- 

 cence; below and the legs fulvous. 



Hah. Anamalais, India. 



This is a broader and larger species than N. Andrewesi. The 

 antennse are difîerentiy coloured and hâve the terminal joints 

 much more elongate, the thorax is of much more tranverse shape 

 and the locality where the species was obtained differs from that of 

 the preceding insect. 



NEPHRELLA PALLIDA sp. n. 



Pale fulvous, the apical joints of the antennse piceous, thorax 

 subquadrate, finely and remotely punctured, elytra strongly and 

 closely punctured and pubescent. 



Length 4 mill. 



Of posteriorly slightly widened shape, larger than N. Andrewesi 

 and entirely of pale coloration ; the antenn» also pale fulvous with 

 the exception of the last four joints which are blackish and much 

 shorter and thicker than the other joints, the eyes nearly round 

 and entire; thorax subquadrate, finely and sparingly punctured 



