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Genus HALME. 

 Halme, Pascoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. (3) iii, p. 641 (1869). 



Type, H. cleriformis, Pasc., a species found in Borneo and 

 Mysol. 



Range. Ceylon, Burma, Andaman Is., Malay Peninsula and 

 Archipelago. 



Allied to Epipedocera, Chevr. ; resembles that genus in form and 

 agrees with it in all but the following characters : Second joint 

 of the antenna? much longer than broad ; prothorax with the 

 basal margin straight and entire ; elytra rounded and unarmed at 

 the apex ; intercoxal part of the mesosternum only moderately 

 broad ; femora abruptly clavate, with a distinct and rather long 

 basal peduncle. 



Five species are known, of which one only the type has up 

 to the present been described. They are mostly of smaller size 

 than the species of Epipedocera, and differ further in all being 

 furnished sparsely with long erect hairs. 



383. Halme cinctella, sp. n. 



Dark brown, glossy, furnished sparsely with longish erect hairs ; 

 elytra marked each with a narrow, slightly raised, ivory band 

 that crosses at the middle bub does not reach either the suture or the 

 outer margin. Head rather closely but not strongly punctured. 

 Antennae almost as long as the body, with the last three or four 

 joints slightly dilated ; first joint closely 

 punctured ; second half as long as the 

 third, which is scarcely longer than the 

 fourth. Prothorax longer than broad, 

 strongly convex in the middle both above 

 and at the sides, deeply constricted at 

 the base and marked near the apex with 

 a transverse groove ; the disc strongly 

 and rather closely punctured. Elytra 

 closely and strongly punctured between 

 the base and the median band, less closely 

 just behind the band and sparsely and 

 .-, more feebly near the apex. Body beneath 

 Gahan. x f . . marked with spots of white pubescence at 

 the sides of the rneso- and metathorax. 

 Femora clavate and pedunculate, the peduncles somewhat testa- 

 ceous at the base. 



Length 4-5 ; breadtJi 1 mm. 

 Hab. Ceylon (Lewis). 



This species resembles H. cleriformis, Pasc., but is at once 

 distinguishable from it by the absence of a white band of pubes- 

 cence from the base of the prothorax. 



