gin, the suture, Ihe latéral and epipleural margins very narrowly 

 black, tibiae more or less piceous. 



Length 5-6 mill. 



Elongate and parallel, entirely pale testaceous, the head impunc- 

 tate, the frontal élévations strongly raised, narrowly transverse, 

 eyes very large, carina rather broad, palpi siender, antennœ long 

 and siender, extending to the end of the elytra, piceous, the lower 

 three or four joints testaceous, the basai joint long and siender, the 

 second very short, third and following joints nearly equal, thorax 

 subquadrate, slighlly constricted at the base, the surface impunc- 

 tate sometimes with a slight œneous gloss, the dise with 

 a broad but rather shallow dépression at each side, scutellum 

 piceous, elytra closely, finely and irregularly punctured, the 

 extrême basai margin, the suture, latéral margins and the inner 

 edge of the epipleurse black, below and the legs testaceous, the 

 tibiaî more or less piceous, unarmed, the first joint of the posterior 

 tarsi as long as the following joints together, claws appendiculate, 

 anterior coxal cavities closed, the last abdominal segment of the 

 maie with a slight triangular emargination at the apex. 



Hah. Nilgiri Hills. May-Juli, at light. 



A good many spécimens of this species were obtained, the species 

 is allied to C. basalis Jac. but bas differently sculptured elytra and 

 very narrow black margins and epipleurae. 



^NIDEA NASUTA sp. n. 



Pale fulvous, with a slight metallic gloss, thorax subquadrate, 

 impunctate, biimpressed, elytra extremely minutely punctured, 

 under side more or less fuscous or black. 



Mas. Face between the antennae raised into a longitudinal short 

 ridge. 



Length 6 mill. 



Mas. Head impunctate, frontal élévations transverse, highly 

 raised, the carina triangularly elongate and highly convex, fur- 

 nished with some long pubescence at the apex, clypeus with a 

 central ridge, deeply sulcate at each side, penultimate joint of the 

 palpi thickened, elongate, antennse siender, fulvous, the basai joint 

 long, siender at the base, second one very short, third joint rather 

 longer than the fourth, the last named as long as the following 

 joints, thorax subquadrate, the sides slightly constricted at the base, 

 the dise trausversely sulcate, the suleus slightly interrupted 

 at the middle, impunctate, elytra wider at the base than the thorax, 

 minutely punctured, without basai dépression, legs llavous. 



Hab. Anamulais. May. 



