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Hyperaxis the above name must be changed and I aller it to Hype- 

 raxis feae. In the description of thia species the thorax is given as 

 more than twice as broad as long, this is not correct and should be 

 not more than twice as broad. 



HYPERAXIS VARIEGATA sp. n. 



Obscure fuscous, clothed with grey scales, basai joints of the 

 antennse and the base of the tibise fulvous, thorax with indistinct 

 grey bands, elytra extremely closely punctured, piceous, the shoul- 

 ders within and the sides obscure dark fulvous, anterior and poste- 

 rior femora thickened, dentate. 



Length 4 mill. 



Head covered with grey scales, the sides obscure fulvous, the 

 middle piceous, or entirely of this colour, epistome not separated, 

 transverse, finely and closely punctured, fulvous as well as the 

 labrum, antennae extending to the middle of the elytra, fulvous, the 

 second joint small, the third'and fourth equal, terminal joints shor- 

 ter; thorax about one half broader than long, the latéral margins 

 obsolète, the surface closely covered with grey scales which form 

 sometimes more or less distinct longitudinal stripes, the punctua- 

 tion very fine and close, scutellum closely pubescent, elytra rather 

 more distinctly punctured than the thorax in extremely closely 

 arranged rows, dark fulvous, a suturai patch at the base and the 

 sides more or less obscure piceous, covered with very short grey 

 scales which are more prominent at the basai margin in front of the 

 shoulders; legs fulvous, feinora with a small tooth, the anterior and 

 posterior ones strongly thickened. 



Hah. Nilgiri Hills and Anamalais. June. 



This species must be closely allied to H. Harmandi Lefèv. (Ann. 

 Soc. ent. France, 1893) but in that insect, the elytra are described 

 as strongly punctured with grey and white scales with rounded 

 patches denuded and intermixed, the intermediate tibiœ are also 

 emarginate at the apox. The genus does not seem to be a weli 

 defined one as the thorax in the type, H. sellata Baly is much 

 more subcylindrical and less transverse and the epistome trian- 

 gular, the emargination of the intermediate tibiœ is very feeble and 

 in the présent species altogether absent, therefore nothing remains 

 but the incrassate anterior and posterior femora to separate 

 Hyperaxis from Demotina. 



APOLEPIS INDICA sp. n. 



Obscure fulvous or piceous, covered with white scales, thorax 

 closely rugose, elytra closely punctured in rows and clothed with 



