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whitish stiff hairs, obscure fulvous, more or less spotted with 

 piceous. 



Length 2 1/2 mill. 



This species is closely allied to A. adspera Baly from Bornéo and 

 Sumatra, but is of a paler coloration, the entire upper surface is 

 closely covered with whitish scales and longer stifl hairs which 

 obscure the sculpturing except that of the elytra in which the 

 closely punctured rows can be seen, the antennœ are short, entirely 

 pale fulvous, with the terminal joints distinctly thickened, forming 

 an elongate club; the thorax is subquadrate and the sculpturing 

 consist of close rugosities which at the sides appear serrate, when 

 viewed from above, the elytra are distinctly wider at the base than 

 the thorax, of dark fulvous colour, with the suturai portion at the 

 base and a spot near the apex more or less piceous (not always 

 présent) the anterior femora are dilated into a distinct tooth. 



Hah. Nilgiri Hills. February, by beating at 3000 ft. élévation. 



A. adspera is of a darker colour, thç thorax is much wider and 

 has a more or less distinct latéral pale band of white pubescence 

 and the anterior femora hâve buta very small toolh. A. Balyi ia,c. 

 has a totally difïerently sculptured upper surface. 



TRICHOTHECA DUVIVIERI sp. n. 



Obscure dark fulvous, clothed with white scale like hairs, antennae 

 slender, flavous, thorax subquadrate, finely rugose, elytra deeply, 

 strongly and very closely punctured, legs pale fulvous, anterior 

 femora armed with a distinct tooth. 



Length 3 mill. 



Of oblong and rather narrow shape, of uniform dark fulvous 

 colour, closely covered with white adpressed and stiiï hairs, the 

 head entirely pubescent obscuring the sculpturing, anterior margin 

 of the clypeus, emarginate, iabrum aud palpi flavous, eyes nearly 

 entire, antennae slender and filiform, flavous, nearly as long as the 

 insect, the third to the sixth joint nearly equal in length, the termi- 

 nal joints shorter; thorax not longer than broad, the latéral mar- 

 gins obsolète, the sides very slightly widened at the middle, the 

 surface pubescent like the head, finely rugose, scutellum rather 

 broad, elytra wider at the base than the thorax, more distinctly 

 punctured than the thorax with very closely placed rows of white 

 hairs, the interstices hère and there furnished with stiffltlack hairs, 

 legs flavous, the anterior femora more strongly incrassate than the 

 others, with a distinct tooth, the other femora with a very small 

 tooth, claws bifid. 



Hah. Anamalais. May by beating. 



