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Of elongate, posteriorly slightly widened shape, the head more 

 or less piceous at the vertex, impunctate, frontal élévations strongly 

 raised, eyes large, labrum stained with piceous, antennse very long 

 andslender, black, the basai joint elongate, the second one short, 

 the third nearly double as long, the rest elongate again; thorax one 

 half broader than long, the latéral and basai margins strongly 

 rounded, the anterior angles slightly oblique, the dise convex, 

 shining, entirely impunctate, scutellum small; elytra wider at the 

 base than the thorax, convex, very finely and rather closely punc- 

 tured , their epipleuree indistinct below the middle, below testaceous, 

 the legs entirely blackish or with the anterior femora sometimes 

 paler, the first joint of the posterior tarsi as long as the following 

 joints together, anterior cavities open. 



LUPERODES BRUNNEUS sp. n. 



Oblong-ovate, convex, entirely light brown, the antennse flavous, 

 thorax strongly transverse, obsoletely sulcate, sparingly punc- 

 tured, elytra extremely finely and moderately closely punctured, 

 metatarsus of the posterior legs very elongate. 



Length 5 mill. 



Head broad, impunctate, the frontal élévations trigonate, the 

 clypeus triangular, thickened, antennse nearly as long as the body, 

 flavous, the first joint long and slender, the second short, the 

 third one half longer than the preceding one, the rest very 

 elongate and slender; thorax twice as broad as long, the sides and 

 the posterior margin feebly rounded, the anterior angles thickened, 

 the dise w^ith an obsolète transverse sulcation, and with a few very 

 minute punctures, scutellum triangular; elytra convex, narrowed 

 at the apex, the latter rounded, the surface minutely and rather 

 closely punctured, the epipleurge continued below the middle, legs 

 slender, ail the tibiœ mucronate, the metatarsus of the posterior 

 legs nearly half the length of the tibia, the anterior coxal cavities 

 open. 



Nilghiri Hills. 



Alliedin coloration to L. Bvaeti Duviv. likewise from India but 

 much smaller, and the under side fulvous, not black. 



DAMAIS gen. n. 



Body elongate, rather convex, antennse filiform, the second and 

 third joint short, the rest very elongate; thorax transversely sub- 

 quadrale, the angles thickened, the surface biimpressed, elytra 

 irregularly punctured, their epipleurae very broad at the base, 



