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Head minutely punctured, nearly black, the clypeus more 

 strongly punctate, labrum fulvous, palpi siender, fulvous, 'antennes 

 fulvous(the last three joints wanting) closely pubescent, the second 

 and third joint small, nearly equal; thorax subquadrate, fuscous, 

 Ihe sides with two small teeth, the surface transversely sulcate, 

 very finely punctured and clothed with long yellowish hairs; scutel- 

 lum fulvous, pubescent; elytra convex, fulvous, punctured like the 

 thorax, closely pubescent. 



Hah. Assam (my collection). 



Smaller Ihan A. Wallacei Baly (Baly gives the length of his 

 species as 2 1/2 lines but the types in the British Muséum which 

 I hâve examined, are larger and at least 3 lines in length), the head 

 differently coloured and the punctuation of the upper parts much 

 fmer. 



HALTIGIN^. 



PHYGASIA VIOLACEIPENNIS sp. n. 



Flavous, the antennse, tibiae and tarsi obscure fuscous, head and 

 thorax im punctate, the latter transversely sulcate, elytra dark viola- 

 ceous, closely and finely punctured, abdomen black, 



Length 5 mill. 



Head impunctate, the frontal élévations broad and strongly 

 raised, carina distinct, rallier broad, antennœ robust, flavous, 

 stained more or less with fuscous, the third and following joints 

 nearly equal, the terminal two, more siender and elongate; thorax 

 scarcely twice as broad as long, the sides rounded, narrowly mar- 

 gined, the base with a narrow transverse sulcus, the dise rather 

 convex, flavous, impunctate, scuteilum flavous; elytra convex, 

 subcylindrical, extremely closely and finely punctured, melallic 

 violaceous blue, below and the legs flavous, abdomen black. 



Hah. India (Pondichery). 



Of this species, distinguished by the colour of the elytra and 

 the abdomen, three spécimens are contained in my collection. 



APHTHONA NILGIRIENSIS sp. n. 



Below and the legs as well as the antenna3 black, thorax 

 impunctate, elytra sparingly and microscopically punctured, the 

 suturai margin narrowly piceous, anterior tibise and the base of the 

 others, testaceous. 



Length 21/2 mill. 



Head pale piceous, the frontal tubercles and the carina small but 

 well marked, labrum piceous, antennae extending beyond the 



