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flavous, the base with a piceous spot at the middle, the suture with 

 another elongate spot of variable size, often very narrow; under 

 side more or less piceous, legs flavous. 



Pondicherry (my collection). 



Very variable in regard to size and coloration and of less cylin- 

 drical shape than most other members of the genus. 



CLEOPORUS MACULIGOLLIS sp. n. 



Elongate, fulvous, head and thorax strongly punctured, the latter 

 with two black patches, elytra strongly punctate-striate, obscure 

 piceous, the margins more or less flavous, legs testaceous, abdo- 

 men obscure piceous. 



Length 3 mill. 



Head almost confluently punctured, pale fulvous, clypeus net 

 separated, eyes with a narrow sulcus above, antennae extending to 

 about the middle of the elytra testaceous, the second joint Ihicke- 

 ned and slightly longer than the third one, terminal joints slightly 

 thickened; thorax one half broader than long, the sides rounded, 

 the surface rather closely and strongly punctured at the sides, less 

 so at the middle, the sides with a large black patch almost occupying 

 tiie whole surface, elytra slightly wider than the thorax at the base, 

 slightly depressed below the latter, regularly punctate-striate, the 

 punctures distinct to the apex; ail the margins pale, the dise 

 slightly darker, legs testaceous, femora unarmed, the intermediate 

 and the posterior libise emarginate at the apex, claws appendiculate, 

 the breast fulvous, abdomen more or less piceous. 



Khandesh (T.-R. Bell). 



TRICLIONA SULGIPENNIS sp. n. 



Obscure fulvous, the dise of the thorax, the sides of the breast, 

 the knees and apex of the tibise black, head and thorax impunctate, 

 elytra wilh regular punctured strise, the punctures nearly obsolète. 



Length 5 mill. 



Head stained with piceous, entirely impunctate, the epistome 

 distinctly separated, wedge shaped, eyes broadly emarginate, 

 antennse extending beyond the middle of the elytra, the lower three 

 joints fulvous, the rest piceous (last 3 joints wanting), thorax trans- 

 verse, the latéral margins strongly rounded, constricted anteriorly, 

 basai margin broadly rounded, the dise impunctate, almost entirely 

 oceupied by two large piceous patches, elytra pale fulvous, longitu- 

 dinally sulcate, the sulci with some very fine punctures below the 

 base, the ninth and tenth abbreviated at each end and joined at 



