276 CHBYSOMELIM;. 



back of the elevation bituberculate at top, rest of surface finely 

 punctured and rugose. Elytra subquadrately oblong, constricted 

 at the middle, a strong transversely shaped tubercle at middle near 

 suture, another smaller one behind the middle, a high oblique ridge 

 from shoulder to suture above the constriction, another narrower 

 ridge from middle of base to the preceding ridge, three highly 

 raised tubercles on apical portion of each elytron ; interstices 

 strongly punctured ; suture dentate throughout. Pygidium with a 

 central and a lateral ridge. Underside deeply rugose-punctate. 



Length 2| mm. 



Hab. Nilgiris (Coll. H. E. Andrewes). 



The thorax differs in sculpture from other small species of the 

 genus, and the antennae and tarsi are entirely fulvous; when 

 looked at from the side the thorax has four triangular pointed 

 tubercles on the elevated portion. 



476. Chlamys kanaraensis, sp. n. 



Black ; head, antennae, the thorax anteriorly, and the legs more 

 or less fulvous. 



Head finely rugose. Thorax black with the posterior portion 

 highly raised, from the top of which two acute ridges run down the 

 sides, these meet at the base and form a transverse ridge behind, 

 two other ridges extend down the middle and are abbreviated in 

 front, rest of the surface closely reticulate and rugose ; a transverse 

 flavous band widened at the middle and abbreviated at the sides, 

 close to the anterior margin. Elytra with a highly raised tubercle 

 at middle of base continued in shape of a ridge to middle of suture, 

 a small tubercle near scutellum, an oblique ridge from shoulders 

 to middle of suture, raised into two transverse tubercles at its 

 centre and termination, apical portion with five other tubercles, 

 the terminal ones the largest ; suture dentate throughout. Pygi- 

 dium with faint central ridge, finely rugose. Anterior and inter- 

 mediate legs and the posterior tibiae flavous with an obscure 

 piceous spot ; posterior femora black. 



Length 2 mm. 



Hab. Western India: Kanara (Coll. H. E. Andrewes}. 



477. Chlamys fulvipes, Baly, Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv, 1878, p. 345. 



Black ; labrum, antennas and legs fulvous ; posterior femora, 

 intermediate femora beneath and tibiae outwardly black. 



Head closely punctured, front closely pubescent with a faint 

 longitudinal depression ; antennae rather shorter than the thorax, 

 six terminal joints dilated. Thorax opaque, strongly and rather 

 abruptly raised at the middle, top of elevation canaliculate, sides 

 with a ring-shaped ridge attached to the upper ridges which limit 



