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the third and foUowing joints elongate, of nearly equal length, tho- 

 rax twice as broad as long, the sides rounded with a narrow 

 reflexed margin, the anterior angles slightly produced outwards, 

 the surface impunclate, testaceous, scutellum black, elytra dark 

 bluish, very finely and closely punctured anteriorly, the posterior 

 portion nearly impunctate; below obscure testaceous, very finely 

 pubescent, the apex of the femora, the tibise and tarsi black, the 

 tibias deeply sulcate, the metatarsus as long as the foUowing three 

 joints together, clawjoint moderately swollen; prosternum deeply 

 longitudinally sulcate. 



Distinguished from auy of its congeners by its System of colo- 

 ration. 



HYPHASOMA DISCIPENNIS sp. n. 



Below testaceous, antennse fuscous, the lower three joints ful- 

 vous, head and thorax impunctate, fulvous, elytra closely and 

 finely punctured, the dise nearly black, the latéral margins nar- 

 rowly fulyous. 



Var. Above entirely fulvous or obscure piceous. 



Lenght5-51/2 mill. 



Of broadly ovate and ralher flattened shape, the head impunctate, 

 the frontal élévations transverse, lower portion of face concave, 

 shining, fulvous, antennse slender, about half the length of the 

 body, nearly black, the lower three joints fulvous, third joint one 

 half longer than the second and as long as the foUowing joints, 

 thorax twice and a half broader than long, narrowed anteriorly, 

 anterior angles obliquely thickened, posterior ones rather obtuse, 

 the surface nearly impunctate, or with some very minute punc- 

 tures when seen under a strong lens, scutellum broad, fulvous; 

 elytra very finely and ralher closely punctured, blackish, with nar- 

 row fulvous latéral and apical margins, below and the legs testa- 

 ceous, the metatarsus of the posterior legs as long as the foUowing 

 joints together, clawjoint moderately swollen. 



I hâve laken the dark coloured form as the type, although of the 

 variely many more spécimens were obtained; of much smaller size 

 than H. indica Baly and more finely punctured, from H, nigricornû 

 Baly separated by the much shorter antennse, the less transverse 

 thorax and différent sculpture of the latter and of the elytra; the 

 differently coloured legs and other détails séparâtes the species 

 from H. piceipennis Baly. 



MESOPA gen. n. (Halticid^). 



Body elongate, metallic, antennae filiform, the third joint longer 

 than the second, terminal joints thickened, thorax subquadrate, 



