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border deeply concave-emarginate, eitlier side of the notch pro- 

 duced into a short but distinct tooth ; antennae very slender, 

 nearly equal to the body in length, lower half pale fulvous, outer 

 half fuscous, base of joints fulvous. Thorax more than twice as 

 broad as long, sides rounded and converging from base to apex, 

 more quickly converging in front, all the angles armed with a 

 small tubercle ; surface smooth, impunctate, subopaque. Elytra 

 scarcely broader than the thorax, broadly oblong, parallel, very 

 indistinctly impressed below the basilar space, strongly puiictatc- 

 striate, the striae visible to the apex, obsoletely sulcate in front, 

 interspaces very slightly convex ; on the basal margin of each 

 elytron is placed a small transverse oblong spot. 



10. Rhyparida semi punctata, n. sp. 

 Late oblonga, rufo-fulva, nitida; abdomine nigro-piceo; thorace 

 elytris fere sequilato, minute subcrebre punctato ; antennis 

 elytrisque nigris ; illis basi fulvis, his infra basin et intra cal- 

 lum humerale excavatis, striis ante medium sat fortiter punc- 

 tatis, leviter sulcatis, pone medium indistinctis, ad apicem 

 omnino deletis; femoribus subtus dente parvo instructis. 

 Long. 2 lin. 

 Hab. Batchian. 



Head minutely granulose, finely and remotely punctured ; lower 

 portion of the front impressed with a longitudinal groove, which 

 runs upwards from the apex of the epistome; the latter not longer 

 than broad, separated from the front by a faint suture; apical 

 an^le obtuse, sides nearly straiy-ht, convery-ing backwards : anterior 

 border concave-emarginate, angles of the emargination slightly 

 produced, obtuse ; surface more distinctly j»unctured than the 

 front ; jaws pitchy-black ; antennae nigro-piceous, two or three 

 basal joints pale fulvous. Thorax twice as broad as long, sides 

 rounded, diverging at the base, obliquely converging from behind 

 the middle to the apex, hinder angles armed with an obtuse 

 tooth ; surface distinctly and somewhat closely punctured. Elytra 

 scarcely broader than the thorax, parallel, broadly impressed 

 transversely below the basilar space, longitudinally impressed 

 within the humeral callus, the latter moderately prominent ; striae 

 strongly punctured in front, the puncturing very fine before the 

 middle, entirely obsolete near the apex ; interspaces plane. 



11. R/iijparida puncticollis, n. sp. 

 Anguste oblonga, rufo-fulva, nitida ; antennis obscure fulvis ; 

 abdomine nigro-piceo; thorace distincte subcrebre punctato; 



