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beneath, the tibiae and tarsi are nearly black. What appears to me 

 to be the sixth segment is nearly ail black, the seventh is quite 

 hidden by the folds of the pygidial segment which meet completely 

 round the ventral surface. I cannot say from the single spécimen 

 before me, if this structure is natural, but it appears so, and has 

 been referred to before by me in describing oriental Telephoridae. 

 The true structure cannot be determined but from living or recently 

 killed spécimens. The claws are simple. The elytra are simply 

 coriaceous without signs of costae, but very slightly substriate 

 towards their bases. A single example. 



74. Silis? lineatus n. sp. — Precedenti similis ac statut a 

 sulœqualis, anguslior^ capite superne nigro-fusco, medio flavo- 

 lineato, antennis longioribus , corpore fere œqualibus, linearihus 



fuscis^ prothorace sordide Jlavo cmialiculato^ M nigro-signato, 

 hasi reflexo, elytris pedihusque ohscure nigro-fuscis , Ms basi 

 testaceis, illis liiieis tribus, nervulis simulantibus Jlavis ; corpore 

 subtus scutelloque fiavo . — Long. 10 millira. 



Hab. India, Madura (C. Somers-Smith) . 



One example. 



75. Silis fascitarsis n . sp. — Testaceus^ elytris nigris, anten- 

 nis tarsisque fuscis^ illis articulis diiobus basalibns pafms. — 

 Long. 8-9 millim. 



Mas^ protJioracis margine laterali, medio oblique inciso^ den- 

 tem acutum retrorsum aspicientem prebente, antennarum articulis 

 nono et decimo compressis; hoc basi, illo apice conjunctim extus 

 exsculptis. 



Hab. Burma, Tharrawaddy, Shwegyin, Rangoon (Corbett). 



Head and thorax shining, impunctate, a little golden pubescent, 

 orange yellow, antennae fuscous except the two basai joints, 

 about as long as in S. simplex but the ninth joint and the tenth 

 are both compressed and widened where they articulate, and are 

 very closely united but the suture is quite visible, they are a little 

 distorted, and scooped out; the other joints being quite normal. 

 The thorax is transverse, with the front and hind margins very 

 straight, and their margins a little reflexed, the sides widen in the 

 middle, and are there (in the maie) eut out as in S. simplex, but in 

 a less degree, the legs and body are yellow, the tarsi of the former are 

 fuscous. The elytra are black, very closely and sub-coriaceously 

 punctured, a little pubescent, and rather duU. One small example 

 from Tharrawaddy has the elytra yellowish at the base and the 

 9-10"' joints of the antennae less affected (though stil thickened) 

 the sides of the thorax being dentate and incised. Possibly this 

 represents a différent species. Four examples of the typical form, 

 ail maleS; are before me. 



