27 '"2 BUTELIX.E. 



of posterior spots close to the middle line of the pronotum, black. 

 The sutural stripe is more or less dilated round the scutellum, tlie 

 humeral and apical calli are generally a little darkened, and the 

 extreme edges of prothorax, scutellum and elytra are also dark. 

 In pale specimens the spots disappear. 



The shape and sculpture are practically the same as in the type 

 form, but the pronotum is rather more strongly punctured. 



Length, 13-14 mm. ; breadth, 6*5-7 mm. 



UNITED PROVINCES: Dehra Dun, 800 ft. (G. F. G. Seeson, 

 March) ; E. BENGAL : Khulna (March, Indian Museum). 



This species is an interesting straggler in a really Palaearctic 

 genus. It rather closely resembles R. suturalis, especially in its 

 northern race (\a,r.puncticottis), but it is larger, the eyes are rather 

 larger in proportion, the pronotum is relatively broader, and the 

 shorter front claw of the male is much shorter. Well-coloured 

 specimens of the var. puncticollis are distinguished from the type- 

 form by the additional pair of spots at the front of the pronotum, 

 but in both forms the thoracic markings are liable to disappear 

 entirely. The variety also differs in its more strongly punctured 

 pronotum, while in the male the sedeagus is rather longer and 

 narrower. It is probable that in Central India intermediate 

 forms linking these two known races will be found to exist. 



297. Rhinyptia laeviceps, sp. nov. 



Pale testaceous yellow, with the clypeus and tarsi reddish, and 

 the forehead and vertex nearly black. 



Elongate-oval in shape, moderately convex, very smooth and 

 shining, with a thin clothing of hair beneath. The head is 

 extremely glossy and only scantily and very lightly punctured. 

 The forehead is a little depressed between the eyes, the clypeal 

 suture distinct, but not elevated, the clypeus triangular, with its 

 sides strongly converging from, the base, the apical process about 

 as long as it is broad, gently recurved and rounded in front, and 

 slightly elevated in the middle, but without a sharp carina. The 

 pronotum is rather narrow, very feebly and inconspicuously 

 punctured, with a lightly impressed median groove, the sides 

 lightly rounded, the front angles nearly right angles, and the 

 hind angles rounded. The scutellum is finely punctured, and the 

 elytra are very lightly punctate-striate, the second, fourth and 

 fifth intervals wide and rather irregularly punctured along the 

 middle. The pygidium is rather coarsely, but not closely, punc- 

 tured. The front tibia is armed with three teeth, the terminal 

 one very slender and the uppermost very feeble. 



I have only seen a single male. 



LengtJi, 12 mm. ; breadth, 6 mm. 



SIND: Karachi. 



Type in the British Museum. 



