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widened at the middle, the latéral margins obsolète, the dise 

 clothed wilh seules like the head, scutellum triangularly elongate, 

 elytra wider at the base than the thorax, strongly punetured in 

 very closely approached rows, the scales likewise arranged in lines, 

 the Interstiees furnished with single stifï" blaek hairs, under side 

 densely clothed with whitish scales, legs dark fulvous, the femora 

 armed with a small tooth, tibise entire, claws bifid. 



Hah. Anamalais. May. 



To be separated from its allies principally by the nearly white 

 densely placed scales which obscure the sculpturing of the head 

 and thorax, the piceous or dark fulvous ground colour of the 

 elytra can just be seen under the covering of the scales. 



DEMOTINA FULVOHIRSUTA sp. n. 



Piceous, clothed with very short, pale fulvous pubescence or 

 scales, head and thorax finely rugose punctate, elytra deeply punc- 

 tate-striate, with a smooth spot at the base, a transverse band below 

 the middle and a shorter one near the apex, blaek. 



Var. The posterior bands replaced by a spot each. 



LengthS mill. 



Head entirely clothed with pale fulvous, sealelike pubescence, 

 the anterior portion of the epistome and the labrum fulvous, palpi 

 slender, fulvous, antennse very slender, pale fulvous, the inter- 

 mediate joints darker (the last five joints wanting), thorax one half 

 broader than long, the latéral margins obsolète anteriorly, the sur- 

 face sculptured like the head and similarly pubescent, scutellum 

 subpentagonal, pubescent, elytra with a dépression below the base, 

 rather pointed at the apex, strongly and closely punctate-striate, 

 furnished with the same pale fulvous scales as the rest of the body, 

 but the pubescence interrupted by blaek smooth spots and bands of 

 which one spot is placed near the scutellum, an oblique transverse 

 band below the middle and a smaller one near the apex joined by 

 another longitudinal stripe near the suture, below fulvous, finely 

 pubescent, legs with the femora more or less piceous and armed 

 with a distinct tooth, prosternum broad, subquadrate. 



Hah. Belgaum and Malabar (my collection). 



DEMOTINA SEMIFASCIATA Jac. 



(AuD. Mus. Geuova, 1892.) 



This species must be placed in Hyperaxis on aceount of the 

 dilated anterior and posterior femora and the strong tooth of the 

 latter. On aceount of another species having been described by me 

 previously under a similar name and which likewise belongs to 



