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striolate on the posterior, and slightly conjointly emarginate at 

 the apex. The abdomen is black, the segments finely striolated. 

 The legs and antennas are brownish yellow. 



210. — Tachtpoeus rubricollis. n. sp. 



Length 1 line. 



Head and thorax red, subnitid. Elytra pitchy brown and 

 covered with fine striolte. Body black, legs and antennoe red. 



Sub-family Staphtlinid^. 

 211. — Leptacinus luridipennis. n. sp. 

 Length 2 lines. 



Head black, nitid, parallel-sided, much longer than the 

 breadth, a little rounded at the posterior angles, and marked with 

 distant punctures. Thorax dark red, nitid, longer and a little 

 narrower than the head, slightly emarginate on the sides behind 

 the middle, very slightly narrower behind than in front, rounded 

 at both ends and sparingly marked with punctures. Scutellum 

 large, triangular, and of a brown colour. Elytra roughly punc- 

 tured, broader than the thorax, rounded at the apex, of a brown 

 colour at the base, and of a pale nitid lurid hue on the posterior 

 half. Abdomen dark brown and punctate. Legs, antennae, and 

 palpi brownish red. 



The whole insect has an elongated flat appearance. 



212. — Leptacinus ctaneipennis. n. sp. 

 Length 3 lines. 

 Head black, nitid, parallel-sided, twice as long as the width, 

 truncate behind, with a deep margined impression on each side 

 extending from the inner side of the eye in an oblique direction 

 towards the centre of the forehead, and with a few large punc- 

 tures on the back part of the head and towards the labrum. N^eck 

 very slight. Thorax bright red, nitid, shaped much as in the 

 last described species, but more convex, and with the punctures 

 more rare. Scutellum red. Elytra dark blue and finely punc- 



