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Chaetocnema minuta n. sp. 
Obscure æneous, head impunctate, thorax extremely finely and 
closely punctured, elytra strongly punctate-striate, the interstices 
minutely punctured, anterior legs and posterior tibiæ more or less 
flavous. 
Length 1/2 line. 
Head minutely granulose, with a few very fine punctures 
between the eyes, frontal elevations absent, antennæ black, the 
basal five or six joints fulvous, the second and the following two 
joints small and equal, thorax scarcely twice as broad as long, the 
sides nearly straight, gradually narrowed in front, the anterior 
angles scarcely oblique, the usual seta placed much below the 
angles, the surface extremely minutely and closely punctured, 
the interstices finely granulate, elytra moderately strongly 
punctate-striate, the punctures very closely placed within the 
striæ, the short sutural row as regular as the others, the inter- 
stices extremely minutely punctured, only visible under a strong 
lens, slightly costate at the sides, elytral epipleuræ impunctate, 
underside and femora obscure æneous, the anterior legs and the 
posterior tibiæ more or less flavous, strongly notched below the 
middle, with a long spine, their metatarsus as long as the 
following joints together; penis long and slender, gradually 
tapering towards the apex, the latter pointed. 
Hab. Belgaum. 
À very small species, which may be known from other Îndian 
forms by the impunctate head, the very finely and closely 
punctured thorax, in connection with the finely punctured elytral 
interstices. 
GALERUCINÆ. 
HaAPLosoMA Jac. 
Several species belonging to this genus are not at all well 
defined and Allard, who has given a list of them has made several 
mistakes; his 77. corniculala seems identical with 77. ventralis 
Baly (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1886) which Allard does not men- 
tion, although Baly published his description two years before 
that of Allard. 77. wnicolor Illig. does not belong to ÆZaplosoma 
but enters the genus Æaplosomoides Duviv. on account of the 
appendiculate claws. Æ. lunata Redt. (cyanura Hope) likewise is 
no ÆZaplosoma but belongs to Wimastra. In his synoptic list of 
the species, Allard gives one division, in which the breast and 
all the other portions are fulvous and the abdomen black, but he 
