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the sides in front of them broadly flattened, the rest of the surface 

 exlremely rninutely punctured, wilh a smallblack spot at the sides at 

 the middle of the elytra, under side and legs testaceous, the breast 

 black. 



Hah. Kanara (T.-R. Bell). 



This Oides has Utile lo distinguish it from many other species of 

 similar ground colour but the black breast and the small elytral 

 spot (when présent), the prominent shoulders, very minute punc- 

 tuation and the black breast are however constant characters by 

 which the species may be distinguished. 



AGETOCERA FLAVA sp. n. 



Flavous, the breast black, thorax impunctate, transversely 

 sulcate, elytra with basai dépression, scarcely perceptibly punc- 

 tured. 



Mas. Antennae with the eighth joint strongly swollen and cylin- 

 drical. 



Length 7 mill. 



Smaller than any of the other species of Ihis genus and at once 

 distinguished by its flavous and non metallic colour; the head 

 impunctate with a short but deep central groove at the vertex, 

 penullimate joint of the palpi rather widened, antennse scarcely 

 extending to the middle of the elytra, flavous, the basai joint 

 tliickened, subcylindrical, the second short, third joint as long as 

 the first, more slender, the following four joints slightly triangular, 

 eighth joint very elongate and thickened, the terminal two joints 

 slim and elongate, thorax strongly narrowed at the base, scarcely 

 broader than long, deeply transversely sulcate below the middle, 

 the sulcus curved and narrow, the surface impunctate, elytra 

 much wider at the base than the thorax, the shoulders prominent, 

 the sides slightly widened towards the apex, the base with a shallow 

 transverse dépression, the dise not perceptibly punctured, legs 

 slender, the breast black, the last abdominal segment with a deep, 

 longitudinal excavation, 



Khasia flills (my collection). 



I only know a single maie spécimen of this species which has the 

 antennae of rather différent structure than is the case in most of its 

 allies in which the lower joints are generally thickened and nearly 

 moniliform ; although the anterior tibia3 are distinctly mucronate I 

 am quite unable to discover a spine at the posterior tibise, even with 

 the strongest leus; in the structure of the last abdominal segment, 

 this insect agrées with the maies of the rest of the known species. 



