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joint less stout than the two preceding it, but the three joints are 

 nearly of equal length, and it is acuminate. Thie thiorax is narrower 

 in front Ihan at the base, ratber shining and clothed wilh long, but 

 not tliick, yeliow pubescence, it is not channelled. The scutellum is 

 yellow, but looks a lillle daik in the praescutellar région. The 

 elytra are not so clearly fulvous as the thorax and are pubescent, 

 punctuation is nol distinct. The legs and body are black. 



This insect bas a gênerai resemblance to H. Haselli; the colour 

 of the antenna3, body and legs is at once sufQcient to distinguish 

 it. The sex is uncertain, but it is 1 think a maie. 



There is only one example. 



Stenocladius vittatus n. sp. — Niger haud nitidus, elytris r< .. 

 sordide teslaceis, vilta suturali ad basim lata, inde ad apicem 

 altenuata fusca, antennis articulis tertio ad decinium longe ramosis. '"' '^^' 

 — Long. 7-7.5 mil!. 



Hah. India, Nilgiri Hills. Near Ootacamand (Salmon). 



The whole insect vvith the exception of the elytra is of a duU 

 black. The elytra vvhich are very soft in texture are llattened and 

 naurowed towards their apices. There is very little epipleural fold 

 except at Ihe humérus. The antenn;,e hâve very long rami; each 

 ramus being about as long as half of the whole antenna. The head 

 can be retracted, so as scarcely to be seen from above. The thorax 

 is nol wilder than the elytra, thickly punctured, with an obsolète 

 channel in the basai half. The elytra are dull, with a suturai vitta 

 which is broad at the base, and from thence narrowing till it 

 disappears at the apex. There are three examples of this, which is 

 a sordidly colored, and not interesting looking species. 



Subfam. MELYRIDES. 



Laius jucundushQxxvg. Gorh., Ann, Soc. Ent. Bel., XXXIX, 1895, 

 p. 318, to Ibe localities given add. 

 Hah. India, Nilgiri Hills. 



Idgia oculata Redten. Gorh., loc. cit., p. 319, to the localities 

 given add. 

 Hah. India, Nilgiri Hills; many examples. Beating and at light. 



Idgia Cardoni Bourg. Gorh., loc. cit., p. 319, to the localities 

 given add. 

 Hah. India, Nilgiri Hills; Upper slopes, 3 ex. 



Carphuriis picipennis Gorh. Ann. Soc. E'it. Belg., 1895, p. 321. 

 A séries of six spécimens captured by M. Andrewes in the Nilgiri 

 Hills, is I think to be referred to this insect formerly taken at Bel- 



