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the shortness of the thin antenna;, which are not so pubescent as 

 in such species as S. ambulator W. ; also by the rather prominent 

 eyes, which are small (compared with a very similar insect in my 

 collection from Siam). The eyes are hairy, widely separated. The 

 thorax is not very deeply constricled in front, as long as broad, 

 much narrowed in at the base. The elytra are flallish, obsoletely 

 punctate-striate. The variegated pattern towards the apex, is 

 something like the letter X, but is not frequcnlly distinct, and in 

 soveral examples not to bc traced. In one example from the 

 Anamalais Hills, the punctured strice are much deeper, the whole 

 insect is rather darker, with a dark club to the antennse, and the 

 size is six millimètres. But hardly two of the elevon Nilgiri spéci- 

 mens agrée in colour, and they also vary in size. I think it i hardly 

 more than a local form. The front tibiœ are green in more than 

 one and the middle tibia) often partake of this fugitive character, 

 the ashy shining pubescence of the elytra also sometimes bave a 

 shagreened look. 



Allhough insects from India hâve been referred to species of 

 Stigmatium, described from Singapore or olher localities, thèse 

 références and allocations remain very doubtful and are even 

 incorrect. Thus S. ignavutn West, is a Singapore insect, S. fervidum 

 Singapore, S. leucochyle Ghevr. given as « India Or. » in Lohde Gat. 

 is expressly described from Siam; S. pallipes Ghev. from Bornéo; 

 S. jihilippinarum Gorh. Luzon (The ? in Lohdes Gatalogue, only 

 applies to the Tenasserim locality given by me Ann. Mus. civ. Gen., 

 1892, p. 740). S. modestum is interesting as being the first species 

 which can be undoubtedly attributed to the Indian continent. 



Sisyrnophorus variabilis n. sp. — Oblongus, ferrugineus, 

 nitidus, parce tenuissime pubescens,vix punctatus; antennis tenui- 

 bus articulis quatuor basalibus et apicali ferrugineis, reliquis et 

 mandibularum apicibus nigris; prothorace ferrugineo, disco inter- 

 dum antice infuscato; elytris ovatis vel ferrugineis, vel nigro-macu- 

 latis, vel nigris disco rufo, vel totis nigris; pedibus et subtus 

 semper pallide ferrugineis. — Long. 4-6 millim. 



Hah. Nilgiri Hills, Anamalais Hills, 3500-4000 feet (Andrewes); 

 ? Geylon (Lewis). 



OblongjWith the head much sunk in the thorax, and rather coar- 

 sely grained eyes; the thorax is of the horse-shoe shape, rounded 

 behind without any hind angles and finely margined along the 

 sides and base; the elytra are very oval with a rather pronounced 

 humerai callus, almost impunctate and not striate, but with a fine 

 very sparse short grey pubescence, their widest part is about a third 

 behind the base; the scutellum is almost imperceptible. The 

 antennse are thin, with their basai joint long and bent, their 



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