274 KUTELINJE. 



pygidiuni is clothed with rather thick erect hair. The front tibia 

 is armed with three sharp teeth separated by rather acute notches. 

 The claws are slender and very unequal, and the longer one of 

 the front and middle feet is minutely cleft at a little distance 

 from the apex. 



c? . The abdomen is a little arched beneath, the pygidiuin 

 vertical, and the last ventral segment short and emarginate in th& 

 middle. 



$ . The pygidium is short and sloping, the abdomen convex 

 beneath and the last ventral segment long and pointed. 



Key to the Species. 



1 (2) Elytra with separate punctures rtiftcollis, Kr. 



2 (1) Elytra rugosely punctured. 



3 (4) Elytra with a wide pale border dorsalis, Burin.. 



4 (3) Elytra almost or entirely black fusca, sp. n. 



298. AdorrMnyptia ruficollis. 



Rhinyptia rujtcollis, Kraatz, Deutsche Ent. Zeits. 1895, p. 106. 



Pale yellow, with the clypeus, the middle of the pronotum and 

 the tarsi rather bright red, the posterior part of the head black, and 

 a broad, but ill-defined sutural band upon the elytra brown. 



It is ovate and rather depressed in form, and clothed above 

 and beneath with fine yellowish hair. The head is shining and 

 coarsely but not very closely granulated, with the clypeus narrow, 

 its sides very gently curved and gradually converging to form a 

 short, strongly recurved rostrum, shorter than it is wide and 

 rounded at the end. The pronotum is strongly and closely 

 punctured, with its sides rounded, the front angles slightly acute 

 and the hind angles rounded off. The scutellum is rather finely 

 punctured, and the elytra coarsely, the punctures of the latter 

 quite distinct, except upon the subsutural interval. The costae 

 are not very distinct. The pygidium is finely punctured and 

 clothed with short erect hair. The sides of the metasternum 

 bear rather close shallow punctures. The front tibia is armed 

 with three teeth, the two lower ones long and sharp, the third 

 minute and separated from the second by an acute notch; the 

 longer claw of the front and middle feet is minutely cleft at a 

 distance from the tip. 



c? . All the teeth of the front tibia are acute. 



5 . The two lower teeth of the front tibia are very oblique and 

 the third tooth is very feeble. 



Length, 9-10 mm. ; breadth, 4'5-5-5 mm. 



BENGAL : Calcutta (E. T. Atkinson). 



Type in the Berlin Entomological Museum. 



299. AdorrMnyptia dorsalis. 



Rhinyptia dorsalis, Burm.,* Handb. Ent. iv, 2, 1855, p. 494. 



Testaceous yellow, with the head (except the clypeus) black,, 

 and the pronotum and elytra dark brown, with the sides decorated 



