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This is certainly a good and distinct species of which nearly a 

 dozend spécimens are before me; the bluish head and thorax in 

 which a slight fulvous ground colour can be detected in some, pro- 

 babiy immature spécimens, Ihe fine and close punctuation of the 

 same part and the fulvous antennse and under side will easily dis- 

 tinguish the species; the thoracic grooves likewise are more than 

 usually deep and punctured. 



ŒDIONYCHIS NILGIRIENSIS sp. n. 



Testaceous, the apical joints of the antennse and the scutellum 

 black, thorax impunctate, elytra extremely finely and closely punc- 

 tured, testaceous, a spot on the shoulders, another below the middle 

 and a third at the apex of each elytron black. 



Length 5mill. 



Head flat, with a few punctures between the eyes, the frontal 

 élévations obsolète, palpi thickened, antennse comparatively short, 

 the lower four joints testaceous, the olhers blackish, third and 

 fourth joint equal, the following joints short; thorax nearly three 

 limes broader than long with flattened and rounded sides,the angles 

 acute but not produced, posterior margin sinuate, the dise entirely 

 impunctate, obsoletely transversely sulcate near the base, scutel- 

 lum black; elytra very finely and closely punctured, each with a 

 shining black spot on the humerai callus another below the middle 

 and a third at the apex of the suture; below and the legs testaceous, 

 the posterior tibise with a slight emargination at the apex, the tarsi 

 very short, the clawjoint strongly inflated. 



Of almost similar coloration as 0. Monhoti Baly also from India 

 but with dark terminal joints of the antennse, the elytra more dis- 

 tinctly punctured and without the black suture and Ihe intermediate 

 and posterior black spots placed difïerently. 



HYPHASOMA gen. n. 



General characters of Hyphasis Har. but the thorax transversely 

 convex, the sides narrowly margined not flattened, elytra with 

 moderately broad, deeply sulcate epipleurce, metatarsus of the pos- 

 terior legs about as long as the following joints together, clawjoint 

 more or less swollen, prosternum narrow, elongate, longitudinally 

 sulcate. 



The species for which I establish this genus and nearly ail others 

 described previously and placed in the genus Hyphasis{Ed^vold's type 

 excepted) cannot find their places in that genus on account of the 

 entirely différent shape of the thorax. In Hyphasis proper of which 



