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sides, which are almost bare of pubescence ; the disc with a short 

 median carina and two small spots before the middle, bare of 

 pubescence. Elytra a little wider at the base than the base of 

 the prothorax, gradually but very slightly wider posteriorly 

 and attain their greatest width a little before the apex ; apices 

 broadly truncate, with a stronger outer and shorter sutural tooth ; 

 the disc of each with a broad obtuse costa that runs along it in a 

 slightly oblique direction, near the shoulder in front and near 

 the suture posteriorly. The body beneath, coloured like the upper- 

 side, is faintly pubescent ; the metathoracic episterna are long 

 and rather narrow, parallel-sided in the anterior four-fifths of 

 their length and narrowed posteriorly. The abdomen is as broad 

 behind as in front, with the last ventral segment somewhat sinuate 

 at the apex. 



Length 16 ; breadth 3 mm. 



Hob. Ceylon. 



143. Sebasmia nigra, sp. n. 



c? . Long and narrow. Entirely black, with a short ashy-grey 

 pubescence that covers the body beneath, the legs and the greater 

 part of the antennae, and is faintly visible on the upperside. 

 Head finely rugulose-punctate, with a somewhat granulate ap- 

 pearance above. Antennae a little longer than the body ; first 

 joint closely and finely punctured, marked with a narrow cicatrix 

 and carina at the apex ; third about one-third longer than the 

 first or fourth ; fifth to tenth subequal in length to the third ; 

 each denticulately produced at the apex in front ; eleventh a little 

 longer than the tenth. Prothorax subcylindrical, much longer 

 than broad, slightly constricted and marked with a transverse 

 groove near the apex, transversely and rather finely wrinkled over 

 the whole of the upper surface. Elytra parallel-sided, narrowed 

 and truncate at the apex, finely and very closely punctured through- 

 out, but somewhat less finely near the base. Hind femora extend 

 a little beyond the hind margin of the second abdominal segment ; 

 first joint of hind tarsus as long as the next two united. 



Lenqth 14 ; breadth 2| mm. 



Hab. Nilgiri Hills (H. L. Andreiues). 



Genus TRACHYLOPHUS. 



Trachylophus, Gahan, A. M. N. H. (6) ii, p. 59 (1888). 



Type, T. sinensis, Gahan. 



Range. South China, Burma, and Java. 



Head with the antennal supports somewhat depressed and 

 separated by a narrow groove, the vertex impressed with a median 

 groove. Antennae about equal in length to the body in the $ and 

 only a little longer in the <$ ; third and fourth joints cylindrical, 

 scarcely thickened at the apex, the fourth much shorter than the 

 third ; fifth longer than the third, cylindrical at base, compressed 



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