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the anterior two-thirds of its course, it then suddenly narrows, 

 and is continued as a narrow line to the sutural angle. Body 

 beneath sparingly clothed with coarse adpressed hairs. Apical 

 segment of abdomen, together with the pygidium, black, the 

 former impressed with a smooth shallow fovea. 



Genus Damia, Lac. 

 Mon. Phyt. ii. p. 38^. 



1. Damia canaliculata, Lac. 

 Mon. Phyt. ii. p. 38 1. 



"Flavo-nitida ; pectore tarsisque piceis, abdomine testaceo; sub- 

 tus sat dense albido-pubescens; prolhoracelsevi ; elytris obso- 

 lete punctatis, humeris prominulis, margine laterali late 

 canaliculatis. 



Mas. — Sat elongatus, cylindrico-depressus ; prothorace longi- 

 tudine vix duplo latiore, elytris immaculatis, pedibus anticis 

 elongatis. 



Foem. — Oblonga, prothorace minus convexo, breviore ; elytro 

 singulo nube marginali fuliginosa, puncto humerali, maculis- 

 que duabus pone suturam (altera baseos,altera infra medium), 

 nigris. 



Var. A. Abdomine nigro." (Lacordaire.) 



Hab. Java. 



Genus Ceratobasis, Lac. 

 Mon. Phyt. ii. p. 362. 



1. Ceratobasis Nair, Lac. 

 Mon. Phyt. ii, p. 363. 



" Brevior, flavo-nitida, subtus sat dense argenteo-sericea ; pec- 

 tore, ventre, vertice, thoracisque punctis duobus nigris ; hoc 

 laevi ; elytris obsolete seriatim punctulatis, singulo maculis 

 duabus quadratis (altera pone basin, alterd infra medium), 

 nigro-cyaneis. 



Long. 2 lin. . 



Mas. — Cylindricus, capite majori, antennarum articulo Imo 

 quadrato, tarsis anticis elongatis. 



Fcem. — Oblongo-ovata, tarsis aequalibus. 



Var. A. Oculorum orbitis nigris, vertice prothoraceque im- 

 maculatis. 



Var. B. Orbitis, vertice prothoraceque ut in var. A ; elytris 

 puncto humerali maculaque infra medium nigro-cyaneis." 



(Lacordaire.) 



