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following two joints together, claws appendiculate, the anterior 
coxal cavities open. 
Amongst the enormous number of Phytophaga, I know of no 
senus, Âegascelis excepted, in which the head and thorax 
assumes such an elongate shape as in the case in the present 
genus, on account of which I cannot place the only species before 
me in Phyllobotrica with which it has all other characters in 
common; I would have however referred the present insect to 
Konbirella Duviv. likewise from India, had not the author 
described the tibiæ as mucronate (of wich I cannot discover a 
trace with the strongest lens) and the elytral epipleuræ as 
moderately broad, this portion being extremely narrow in the 
insect before me. 
Hemygascelis longicollis n. sp. 
Fulvous, the antennæ, knees, tibiæ and tarsi black, head and 
thorax impunctate, elytra black, closely and finely punctured, 
the interstices slightly wrinkled. 
G. The metasternum produced into a triangular point, the 
abdomen deeply excavated, fringed with hairs. 
Length 3 lines. 
GS. Head not prolonged, of equal width, impunctate, the eyes 
rather small, frontal tubercles trigonate, distinct, clypeus trian- 
gularly widened, antennæ extending to the end of the elytra, 
black, the basal joint elongate, piceous, thickened at the apex, 
the second joint short, the third more than twice as long but 
slightly shorter than the fourth joint, following ones very 
elongate and slender; thorax one half longer than broad, subcy- 
lindrical, of equal width, the sides with an obsolete depression, 
the anterior and posterior angles thickened, the latter obsoletely 
rounded, the surface impunctate, fulvous, seutellum broad, fulvous, 
elytra wider at the base than the thorax, slightly dilated towards 
the apex, black, finely punctured and wrinKled throughout, 
underside and the anterior portion of the femora fulvous, abdomen 
deeply excavated, the sides of the excavation with long fringes 
of hairs, the base produced into an acute point, pygidium black. 
Hub. Kanara, S. Bombay. 
In the male, the head is contracted up to the eyes into the 
thorax, but if this is always the case, I am unable to say, the head 
in the female is very elongate, the tarsi are not widened and the 
metastermum as well as the abdomen is simple. 
