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but not clear, the 2"'' to the 8"" joints are short, and rather trian- 

 gular but not serrate, the apical joints wider. The head and thorax 

 are fînely pilose with black hairs, the elytra less so, but more 

 densely clothed with depressed rather fulvous pubescence. The 

 punctuation of the latter is dense and distinct, confluent in 

 places, even and uniforra but not striate. The tibiae and tarsi 

 are yellow. Four examples. 



EROTYLIDiE. 



97. Hdota Guerinii Hope, Col. M an., III (1840), p. 188. 

 Helota ocellata Rits., Notes Leyd. Mus., III (1881), p. 105. 

 Oiliff., Cist. Ent., III, 1883, p. 54, t. 3, f. 1. 



Belgaum (Andrewes, April). 



M. Ritsema, Oiliff and R. Oberthur hâve described species of 

 this genus so fast in the last twelve years, it is difïicult to keep 

 pace with them, I must admit I do not see anything in the des- 

 cription of H. ocellata to preclude the supposition that it may be a 

 synonym of H. Guerinii. And judging from the figure in Waterh., 

 Aid Ident. Ins., t. 144, f. 2. I think it very probable H. pusilla 

 Oberth. stands in the same case. 



98. Dacne? cribricollis n. sp. - Oblongo-ovata^ anticeposti- 

 ceque acuminata, nigra, capite ])rothoraceque crehre fortiter 

 punclatis, elytris subtilius punctato-striatis, interstitiis crebre 

 minute punctnlatis , fasciis diiabus latis rufis, una humerum 

 subcingente, postice denticiUata, sîitîiram haud attingente, altéra 

 subapicali intégra., sed marginem reflexam, vix attingente. — 

 Long. 5 millim. 



Hab. India, Belgaum. 



Head rather large, with the eyes coarsely granulated antennae 

 very stout, their third joint hardly longer than the fourth, ail the 

 joints to the eighth, bead-shaped ; the club rather elongate, but not 

 lax, the tenth joint transverse. Thorax, with acute prominent but 

 much deflexed front angles, neither the front nor the basai margin 

 eut out, the latter with a middle lobe, hardly with a marginal line, 

 the latéral margins with a fine double impression; the elytra are 

 exactly of the width of the thorax at the base, but widen a little till 

 just below the shoulders. The whole insect is strongly convex 

 viewed laterally. Legs stout. 



Not a true Dacne., but best placed provisionally with it. 



99. Thallis? nigra n. sp. — Oblonga, subdepressa, nigra vel 

 nigro picea, nitida, capite crebre leviter, protliorace parciiis sub- 

 tiliter pnnctatis, hoc temciter marginato, angulis anticis acutis, 



