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Rather depressed, pitcliy brown, covered with a very pale grey 

 tomentose pubescence ; prothorax narrower in front, finely punc- 

 tured ; elytra regularly i)unctured, each with a dark brown 

 oblique sub-apical patch, nearly meeting at the suture. 



Length 5 lines. 



Ropica stigmatica. 



R. sub-depressa, fusca, obsolete griseo-vittata ; elytris seriatim 

 punctatis, plaga sub-mediand communi grisea, maculisque 

 duabus albis ; antennis, palpis, pedibusque ferrugineis. 



Aru. 



Rather depressed, dark brown, with faint greyish interrupted 

 irregular stripes ; prothorax sparingly punctured ; elytra with the 

 punctures in rows, a large pale greyish blotch at about the middle, 

 extending towards the apex, and common to both, in which on 

 each side are two white spots ; beneath dark brown or black, with 

 a sparse greyish pile ; antennae, palpi, and legs dull ferruginous. 



Length 3 lines. 



Ropica varipennis. 



R. fusca, disperse punctata, griseo-variegata ; elytris basi ter- 

 tiaque terminali pallide fulvis, hac macula semicirculari alba 

 ornata, disco ante medium cinereo ; antennis annulatis. 



Aru. 



Dark brown, with a short greyish pubescence, varied with 

 cinereous and buff; prothorax rather short, finely punctured, dull 

 cinereous ; elytra more coarsely punctured, greyish, with the base 

 buff, the middle occupied by a cinereous patch and rather more of 

 the terminal third buff again, within this a semicircle of pure 

 white, below which, and also at the lines where the buff meets the 

 grey, chocolate brown ; beneath greyish brown ; mandibles and 

 palpi pitchy. 



Length 2| lines. 



Ropica prcBusta. 



R. griseo-fusca; prothorace disco, lateribusque infra, sub- 

 seriatim punctato ; elytris acuminatis, rude punctatis, macula 

 exteriori, ante apicem, picea. 

 Ceylon. 



Greyish brown ; head and prothorax roughly punctured, in the 

 latter in four principal rows, with several others crowded irre- 



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