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finely punctured; elytra punctured like the thorax, narrowly mar- 

 gined with black, a spot on the shoulders, a short stripe below the 

 latler and another spot near Ihe apex, black. 



Var. The elytral markings below the shoulders, absent. 



Length 7 mill. 



Head impunctate, eyes large and prominent, labrum black, 

 antennse slender, black, the first three joints falvous, basai joint 

 elongate, the second and third short, nearly equal, the rest elongate 

 and slender; thorax one half broader than long (cf), subquadrale, 

 the sides straight, the angles slightly thickened, the surface wilh a 

 small, obsolète dépression at each sides, very minutely punctured, 

 testaceus, sometimes wilh five small piceous spots, two at the 

 middle and three near the base, scutellum small, black; elytra very 

 convex, widened posteriorly, extremely slosely and rather more 

 strongly punctured than the thorax, their epipleurae broad and 

 very distinctly continued to the apex, very narrowly margined with 

 black, each elytron with three black spots, one below the other, 

 the intermediate onein shape of a short streak, the posterior one 

 also elongate, but smaller; epipleurae testaceous, margined with 

 black, as well as the sides of the breast, the metasternum likewise 

 with a black posterior margin, legs slender, ail the tibiaî mucronate, 

 the metatarsus of the posterior legs half the length of the tibiœ, the 

 anterior coxal cavities closed. 



Hah. Anamalais. 



A very convex species wilh very broad and continued elytral 

 epipleurae which excludes its place amongst Monolepta. In the 

 female the thorax is more transversely shaped and the latéral 

 dépressions are deeper, the humerai spot is présent in ail the spéci- 

 mens but the other elytral ones are absent in ail but one example, 

 the maie has the last abdominal segment with the médian lobe flat 

 and subquadrale, this segment also is more or less marked with 

 black in ail the spécimens. 



CANDEZEA NIGRILABRIS sp. n. 



Testaceous, the labrum, antennse, tibise and tarsi black, thorax 

 small, with an obsolète dépression, extremely finely punctured, 

 elytra more distinctly punctate, their epipleurae continued below 

 the middle. 



Length 5 mill. 



Head impunctate, the eyes very large, occupying the entire sides, 

 frontal élévations broadly transverse, carina broad and flat, labrum 

 black, antennae with the basai joint flavous below, the following 

 five black (the rest wanting), the second and third short, nearly 



