B.1IAPHUMA. 275 



short oblique line which reaches neither to the suture nor to the 

 outer margin. 



Length 13-16 ; breadth 2|-3| mm. 



Hob. Manipur (Doherty). 



324. Rhaphuma sexnotata, Chevr. Mem. Soc. R, Sci. de Liege, xviii, 

 p. 279 (1863). 



Narrow and elongate, yellowish testaceous, covered on the head, 

 prothorax and elytra with a dense yellow pubescence. Elytra 

 marked each with three small dark brown spots one, longitudinal, 

 at the shoulder and visible only from the side ; the second, narrow 

 and transverse, placed a short distance behind the middle of the 

 disc ; the third similar to the second and placed about midway 

 between it and the apex. Antennae testaceous, reaching almost to 

 the apex in the <J , and to the posterior fourth of the elytra in the 

 $ ; third joint much longer than the first or fourth and a little 

 longer than the fifth. Prothorax ovate-cylindrical, about one- 

 fourth longer than its width across the middle, narrower than the 

 elytra. Elytra three times as long as the prothorax ; truncate, 

 and scarcely dentate, at the apex ; outer margins nearly straight. 

 Body beneath rather densely covered with pubescence of a some- 

 what paler tint than that on the upperside. Legs testaceous, 

 faintly pubescent ; first joint of the hind tarsus twice as long as 

 the second and third united. 



Length 10-11 ; breadth 2| mm. 



Hab. India. 



II. Lateral margins of the elytra more or less distinctly sinuate 

 in the middle. 



325. Rhaphuma placida, Pascoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. (2) iv, p. 240 (1858). 



Head black, covered in front and on the cheeks with buff-yellow 

 pubescence ; prothorax and elytra testaceous red, not very densely 

 covered with yellowish-red pubescence, prothorax with a basal 

 white spot on each side ; elytra marked each with two brownish- 

 black spots a large one at the apex, bordered posteriorly with 

 ashy-grey pubescence, a smaller one a little behind the middle, the 

 latter spot with a small spot of ashy-white pubescence immediately 

 in front of it. Body beneath blackish, the prosternum, meso- 

 sternum, the episterna of the meso- and metathorax, an anterior 

 and posterior band on the metasternum, and a posterior transverse 

 band, widened at the sides, on each of the abdominal segments 

 more or less densely covered with white pubescence ; antennae 

 with the first four or five joints testaceous, the rest brown ; legs 

 reddish, the hind femora dark brown at the apex, the hind tibiae 

 infuscate. Antennae of $ extending about to the apical third of 

 the elytra. Prothorax ovate-cylindrical, a little longer than broad, 

 Hind femora of extending to the apex of the elytra ; first joint 

 of hind tarsi about equal in length to the remaining joints united. 



Length 10J-14 ; breadth 2|-3| mm. 



Hab. Darjeeling ; Burma ; Celebes. 



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