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gaum. They vary in size from three to five millimètres, and are 

 nearly black, in some the Iwo basai joints of the antennae are partly 

 rufo-piceous, as also in some cases, are the membranous inter- 

 sections of the hindbody, but in no case are the three apical seg- 

 ments red, as thay were in the example I attributed to a maie in 

 C. nigrinus. I think four of thèse examples are females, and two 

 are maies, thèse are the smaller examples, which are also narrower, 

 and with sUghtly longer antennse. Iaken at Kallar, 1,000 feet, by 

 beating. 



I will not repeat the remarks made under C. nigrinus, loc. cit. 

 The examples now sent are very neatly mounted on points of card, 

 with the legs extended. 



Subfam. CLERIDES. 



Cladiscus obeliscus Lewis. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., X, 1892, p. 185; 

 slrangulatus Kies, D. E. Z., 1879, p. 314. 



Hab. India, Anamalais Hills. 



Three examples scarcely differ from an example given me by 

 M. G. Lewis of C. oheliscns from Japan. 



The antennaj are simply serrate, not so long as in C. attenuatus 

 Gorh. 



The study of the species of Cladisci appears to me beset with 

 difficullies. This insect cannot I think be the one described by 

 Westwood as C. hipectinatns, which appears at the same time to 

 be the description of a female only, first because the joints 4-10 are 

 there said to be « longe bipectinatis » whereas hère the rami are 

 very short, in fact seeming only divided at their apices,and secondly 

 because the elytra are not coslate, nor are they black at their 

 apices. Cladiscus hindostanus Ghev. I bave not seen, but from the 

 very biief description I can scarcely think it belongs to the genus. 

 C. Prinseppi White seems a maie allied to the présent insect but to 

 differ very considerably in colour. 



Cladiscus sanguinicollis Spin. Mon., L, p. 125; Lac, Gen. Atl., 

 t. 45, f. 4. 

 Hab. India, Nilgiri Hills; 2 ex. 



Cladiscus dispar n. sp. — Corpus subtus aterrimum, superne 

 ferrugineus, elytris ochraceis, creberrime crenalo striatis, striia 

 crebre punclatis, ad apicem confusis; antennis nigris, maris arli- 

 culis tertio ad decimum ramo duplici, a basi exoriente, undecimo 

 falciformi apice compresso-constricto, feminae articulis quarto ad 

 decimum breviter biramosis, ultimo breviter ovali apice sub- 

 mucronato, pedibus nigris. — Long. 12 millim. 



Hab. India, Nilgiri Hills. Beating; Upper slopes. 



