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very closely and rather strongly punctured, and somewhat 

 opaque in appearance. Underside more glossy ; legs and 

 breast closely and somewhat rugosely punctured, and more 

 thickly covered with yellowish hairs ; abdomen sparsely 

 punctured. ' Antennse, palpi, and front tarsi testaceous in 

 colour. 



(This description was already written before M. Fairmaire's 

 paper had come under my notice.) 



Phonai^ate nitidipennis^ Waterh. 

 A])a(e nifidipennis, "VVaterh. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1881, p. 472. 



To this species I refer four male examples obtained by 

 Mr. Lort Phillips in Somaliland. These examples agree 

 very well with the type specimen (also a male) from Socotra. 

 A male specimen obtained by Col. Yerbury at Aden is more 

 strongly punctured than the type and has the raised lines of 

 the elytra less distinct, so that it possibly belongs to a 

 different species. 



A very closely allied species is represented in the Museum 

 collection by male and female examples from Fao on the 

 Persian Gulf, Muscat in Arabia, and two males from Bagdad. 

 The females of this species show very clearly the stridulating 

 surface on the anterior femora, and the vibs (against which 

 the surface scrapes) on the sides of the prothorax. This 

 stridulating- apparatus, which is not only novel as regards its 

 position, but remarkable also in being peculiar to the female 

 sex, was first noticed by M. Lesne, who described it in 

 characterizing the genus Fhonajjate (Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 

 1895, p. 178). 



An undescribed species of this genus occurs in the North 

 Hills, Burma, whence a female specimen has been sent by 

 Mr. Watson. It is evident, therefore, that the genus has a 

 pretty wide range. 



Adesmia Phillipsiy sp. n. 



Kigra, sat nitida ; capite parce punctato, labro antice paullo emar- 

 ginato ; pronoto parce punctato et prope latera transversim rugo- 

 8ulo, medio breviter lineato-sulcato et utrinque obliquiter vage 

 impresso; eljtris subovatis, supra convexis cancellato-costatis, 

 postice valde declivis et subacuminatis, utroque elytro costis 

 quatuor lougitudiuahbus quarum externa obtusa sat dense sed 

 baud regulariter granulata ; prosterno postice valde declivo, non 

 producto ; mesosterno autice baud gibboso. 



Long. 15-19, lat. ad med. elytrorum 9-11 mm. 



Hab. Somaliland [E. Lort Phillips). 



