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lasi Mimpresso; elytris punctato-slriatis interstitiis lâevilus. 

 Oculi fortiter granulati ; antennœ caput et frothoracem haud 

 superantes, pedibus piceis, abdomine lineis impressis nullis. — 

 Long. 5 millim. 



Jlab. India, Kanara (Bell). 



At présent several insects are arranged under the name 2'hallis 

 which hâve not much in common with the Australian species such 

 as T. compta, and no doubt some subdivision must soon take place. 

 The présent species which I describe provisionally as a Thallis has 

 the short antennae with the 2'"' to the 8'" joints short and nearly 

 equal, very coarsely granulated eyes, of the genus, but there are no 

 « coxal lines » on which M"" Crotch lays some stress, and the basai 

 strigae are like those of the Endomychidae, and are not found in 

 other species known to me. 



There are two examples o[ Thallis t nigra^ frora Kanara, one 

 of thèse is nearly entirely black, the legs alone being pitchy ; the 

 other (probably no sot mature) is more or less pitchy above espe- 

 cially round the margins of the thorax and elytra, and along the 

 suture, and is entirely pitchy-brown beneath, and as regards the 

 legs. 



The thorax narrows in front, the sides are very little sinuous, 

 the base of the elytra is of the same width as that of the thorax. 

 It clearly differs in many important respects frora T. indica 

 Crotch, perhaps generically. 



100. Thallis? transversus n. sp. — Oblonga, ntfo-picea, 

 nitida, capite crebre, prothorace parcius distincte punctatis, hoc 

 basi profunde transversim impressa, elytris tenuiter pimctalo- 

 striatis, interstitiis Unvibus ; anteîinis capitis prothoracisque lon- 

 gitudine, articulis tertio ad octavum elongatis, sîibœqitalibus . — 

 Long. 5 millim. 



Hab. India, Madura. 



Near the preceeding, but more depressed, the elytra more 

 contracted at the base, and the thorax without basai longitudinal 

 foveae. 



101 . Triplatoma lineata n. sp. — Rufo-picea, nitida; protho- 

 race oblongo, fere lœvi, ptmctis nonniillis nigrescetUibus obscure 

 notato, elytris obsolète sulcatis, lineis piceis haud bene discretis hic 

 illic variegatis; aniennis gracilibus clana taxe arliculata, fere 

 nigris, palpis, epistomate, geniculis, tarsisque piceis. — Long. 

 12 millim. 



Hab. India, Madura. 



Although there is only one example of this Triplatoma befôre 



