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inner margin of each eye, black ; pronotum with four longitudinal 

 black spots, two central and one near each lateral margin ; meso- 

 notum with two central longitudinal lines, a continuous angulate 

 line before each lateral margin, and two lateral lines, black, between 

 the last the colour is silvery white tomentose ; abdominal seginental 

 margins black ; rostrum, body beneath, and legs pale ochraceous ; 

 apex of rostrum, a submarginal linear fascia to sternum, and a 

 short line before intermediate coxae, black ; a silvery white spot on 

 each side of posterior margin of prosternum, a similar but larger 

 spot before intermediate coxae, and a similar smaller spot near base 

 of lateral margin of abdomen ; antennae dull ochraceous, extreme 

 apices of the first, second, and third joints and the whole of the 

 fourth joint piceous or black, fourth joint longest, second shortest, 

 first and third subequal in length, first moderately curved ; inter- 

 mediate femora a little longer than posterior femora ; rostrum 

 considerably passing the anterior coxae ; tarsal claws long. 



Length 4 millim. 



Hob. Travancore ; Maddathoray, W. base of Western Ghats 

 (Annandale). 



I have only seen apterous forms of this species. 



Genus JANIAS. 



(To follow Cylindrosttihus, Vol. II, p. 184.) 

 Jamas, Dist. A. M. N. H. (8) v, p. 145 (1910). 



Type, J. elegantulus, Dist. 



Distribution. At present only received from Travancore. 



Body longer than half the length of either intermediate or 

 posterior legs ; head longer than broad, the apex obtusely angulate ; 

 eyes large, oblique, interiorly moderately emarginate, posteriorly 

 moderately extending over the anterior angles of the pronotum ; 

 antennae short, robust, first joint straight, longest, longer than 

 head, distinctly inwardly spinous at apex, second and fourth joints 

 subequal in length, third shortest ; rostrum short, reaching but 

 not extending beyond the anterior coxae ; pronotum about as long 

 as head, narrowed anteriorly behind the eyes, with a central 

 impressed longitudinal line, the posterior margin truncate ; meso- 

 notum more than twice as long as pronotum, the disk centrally 

 longitudinally impressed ; anterior femora longer than the tibiae, 

 obtusely spined at apex, intermediate and posterior femora 

 subequal in length. 



Allied to Cylindrostethus but differing in the shorter antennae, 

 the less anteriorly produced head, and the more posteriorly 

 produced eyes, &c. 



The description is founded on an apterous form. 



