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the length of the body, filiform, five upper joints fuscous. 

 Thorax more than twice as broad as long, sides rounded, con- 

 verging at the base, obliquely converging in front, surface irregu- 

 larly but not very closely punctured. Elytra oblong, convex, 

 indistinctly excavated bilovv the basilar space, coarsely punctured, 

 the punctures arranged in numerous double longitudinal rows ; on 

 the hinder third of the elytron the rows become less numerous, 

 single and sulcate, with the interspaces thickened and costate ; on 

 the outer disk are also several distinct costae. Legs pale fulvous; 

 thighs simple. 



Nearly allied to C. fuscorenea, but separated from that insect by 

 the broader thorax with more rounded sides, the paler legs, and 

 the more regidar punctation and distinctly-raised costae on the 

 hinder third of the elytron. 



11. Colaspoides puncticeps, n. sp. 



Oblonga, convexa, fusco-cuprea, supra cuprea, nitida ; antennis 

 fulvis, extrorsum obscurioribus ; epistomate profunde punc- 

 tate ; thorace subfortiter punctato ; elytris subcrebre fortiter 

 punctatis, punctis subseriatim dispositis. 



Long. 2 lin. 



Hab. Singapore. 



Head triangular, front smooth, impressed in the middle with a 

 shallow fovea, very minutely and distantly punctured, lower por- 

 tion near the epistome coarsely and deeply punctured ; epistome 

 triangular, the sides nearly straight, converging backwards, 

 the apex not separated from the face ; anterior border pro- 

 duced into two short obtuse lobes, the space between them con- 

 cave ; surface impressed on its upper half with large deep 

 punctures; antennas shorter than the body, filiform. Thorax 

 more than twice as broad as long, sides rounded, converging in 

 front, surface deeply but not coarsely punctured, sides moderately 

 deflexed in front. Elytra oblong, scarcely broader than the 

 thorax, sides nearly parallel ; convex, not excavated below the 

 basilar space ; surface somewhat closely covered with coarse deep 

 punctures, arranged in numerous irregular longitudinal rows, in 

 the middle the rows indistinctly approximate in pairs, but towards 

 the apex of the elytron each double row contracts into a single 

 irregular sulcate stria of punctures ; interspaces near the apex 

 thickened, subcostate ; on the disk of each elytron are also to be 

 seen three or four indistinct costae. Anterior pair of tliighs 

 armed beneath with a very small tooth. 



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