64 CEBAMBTCID/E. 



hind femora reaching nearly to the apex of the elytra and the 

 last ventral segment feebly sinuately emarginate at the apex. In 

 the female the antennae and legs are shorter and the last ventral 

 segment is sharply rounded at the apex. 



Length 23-28 ; breadth 5-6 mm. 



Hub. N. India : Allahabad. 



58. Distenia dohertii, sp. n. 



Black, the elytra, antennae, and legs of a more or less brownish 

 testaceous colour, all covered with a short yellowish-grey pubes- 

 cence. Ante-clypeus yellow and glossy. Antennae of female 

 .about one-fifth longer than the body. Prothorax with four feeble 

 tubercles on the disc, without punctures excepting the very 

 minute ones from which the pubescence arises. Elytra marked 

 with some dark lines, along which are placed rows of strong 

 a,nd rather widely separated punctures two rows on the disc 

 of each and two on each side, with a few scattered punctures on 

 the intervals between the rows, a few also near the apex ; the 

 punctures in each row are somewhat closer together near the base 

 and become wider apart the farther they are from it ; each elytron 

 is emarginate at the apex and armed with a longer sutural and 

 shorter outer spine, and in addition has a dorso-lateral raised line 

 that extends backwards from the humeral depression and dis- 

 appears a little beyond the middle. Body beneath somewhat 

 ferruginous, the hind borders of the abdominal segments blackish. 

 Legs brownish, the apex of the femora and tibiae black ; femora 

 of the female but slightly thickened, much less so than in the 

 same sex of D. Tcalidascp,. 



Length 22 ; breadth 5 mm. 



Hab. Manipur (Doherty). 



59. Distenia dravidiana, sp. n. 



Head, prothorax and underside of body dark metallic blue, 

 rather thinly covered with grey pubescence ; elytra light brown, 

 tinged in places with blue, with a covering of short grey pubes- 

 cence ; legs and first antennal joint reddish yellow, the rest of the 

 -antennae black. Antennae of male twice as long as the body ; 

 first joint rather long, gradually and not strongly thickened towards 

 the apex ; third joint about one-sixth longer than the first. Pro- 

 thorax one-third longer than its width across the base, very 

 minutely punctulate, armed with an acutely pointed tubercle on 

 each side. Elytra strongly and rather densely punctured, the 

 punctures somewhat irregular on the sides, arranged in rows 

 above to the number of seven on each elytron ; the rows extend 

 from the base, some to the middle, others to a short distance 

 beyond it ; apex of each elytron truncate and bispinose. Legs 

 long ; femora subcylindrical, the hind pair extending to the apex of 

 the elytra. 



