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impunctate, frontal élévations short and convex, clypeus transverse, 

 thlckened, antenn^u exlending beyond the body, filiform, testaceous, 

 the five or six outer joints black, basai joint very elongate, gra- 

 dually thickened, second joint half the length of the third, fourth 

 rather longer than the preceding joint, the rest slightly shorter, 

 thorax soraewhat broader than long, subquadrate, the sides straight, 

 slightly and gradually narrowed at the base, the angles distinct, the 

 posterior ones thickened, the dise ralher llattened, minutely granu- 

 late and rugosely punctured, obscure fulvous, below the middle is a 

 very shallow, transverse dépression, scutellum triangular, flavous, 

 elytra obscure seneous, widened posteriorly, not covering the abdo- 

 men, each elytron separately rounded at the apex, coarsely wrin- 

 kled and deeply punctured, the sides longitudinally costate, legs 

 extremely long, testaceous, tibiae unarmed, the metatarsus as long 

 as the following joints together, claws appendiculate. 

 Hah. Nilgiri Hills. (Droog Jungle, 6,000 ft, by beating.) 

 This is the second species of this curions and spiderlike shaped 

 genus known to me, it difïers entirely from its ally described by me 

 from the Kasia Hills (Entomologist, 1899) In the sculpturing and 

 gênerai coloration. 



ANTIPHA BIFASCIATA sp. n. 



Flavous, the antennaî, tibiee and tarsi biack, thorax impunctate, 

 elytra closely punctured in semiregular rows, a broad suturai and 

 a narrower latéral band, metallic blue. 



Var. a. Elytra entirely metallic blue. 



Var. h. The head, thorax, under side and legs black. 



Length 6 mil!. 



Head impunctate, with a central fovea, frontal élévations trans- 

 verse, antennaî black, the lower three joints more or less flavous 

 below, the third joint half the length of the fourth one, thorax at 

 leasl twice as broad as long, the sides nearly straight, the anterior 

 angles acute, slightly produced outwards, the dise transversely 

 convex, impunctate, fulvous or flavous, scutellum broad, flavous, 

 elytra with a moderately deep basai dépression, very closely and 

 distinctly punctured, the punctures slightly arranged in rows, 

 metallic blue, this colour divided by a longitudinal flavous band of 

 rather irregular shape, the apex of the elytra likewise flavous; tibiae 

 and tarsi black. 



Hab. Nilgiri Hills. June. 



The spécimens which I hâve taken for the typical form are not 

 diflicult to recognize on account of the elytral pattern, but the enti- 

 rely blue variety or the one with a black head and thorax as well as 



