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towards the apex of the elytra. The epistome and labrum are well 

 raarked by deep impressions, the maxillae and their palpi are 

 testaceous. The thorax is smootb and hardly punctured, with a 

 few upright long black hairs, near the margins. The elytra are 

 clothed with a grey depressed pubescence, and with sparse black 

 hairs, like those ofthe thorax. The punctuation is very close and 

 very obsolète. Two or three ill defined costse are seen about the 

 middle of their length. The scutellum is ftiscous. The episterna 

 epimera raetasternum and abdomen are quite fuscous with an 

 évident green reflection, which can also be seen faintly on the 

 femora. The base of the last abdominal segment is yellow. 

 Two spécimens in my collection. 



88. Idgia apicata n. sp. — Angusia, ^avo-testacea, capite 

 elytrorumque apicibus puncio nigris, ore labro, antennis imlpis 

 testaceis. — Long. 10 millim. 



Hab. Malacca, Singapore (Wallace). 



The small size, and wholly yellow colour with the exception of 

 the base ofthe head and extrême tips ofthe elytra amplydistinguish 

 this insect from /. melanura. 



89. Periebseus punctatus n, sp. — JViger nitidîis; elytris 

 convexis, ohovatis^ crebre fortiter punctatis ; basi et ultra médium 

 macula magna ^ suturam et marginem lateralem vice attingente, 

 ovata^ nigris; antennarum articulis quatuor inimis tibiisque 

 testaceis. — Long. 2 millim. 



Hab. India, Dalhousie, Chamba. 



Head wide, eyes prominent, as wide as the thorax, antennae with 

 the basai joint pear shaped with the thin end at the base, its inner 

 apical side a little produced; the second, very small, triangular 

 and set obliquely ; the third moderate, longer than wide ; the fourth 

 enlarged, triangular; the fifth to the end normal in shape, lon- 

 ger than wide ; mouth testaceous. 



Thorax shining black, orbicular, but wider in front than behind, 

 and wider than the length, glabrous. Elytra obovate, nearly twice 

 as wide behind, as at the base. The base is black, the mark round 

 on the side next the disk; then a yellow fascia twice as wide on the 

 margin, and nearly as much on the suture, as in the middle. The 

 apical margin yellow, and just joining the fascia both along the 

 suture and sides, so as to leave a larger, oval, black patch. The legs 

 are black, but the tibiae are yellow at their bases, or for half their 

 length. In some examples the black posterior spot quite reaches 

 the margins, and in the Chamba examples the tibiae are quite 

 yellow . Five exaraples of this insect were obtained at Dalhousie and 

 three in the Chamba district. 



