RHYPARIDA. 379 



flavous. Elytra scarcely wider at base than the thorax, with a very 

 shallow depression below the base, strongly punctate-striate ante- 

 riorly, and still more at apex, the latter paler in colour than the rest 

 of the disc ; first row of punctures short, not extending to the middle, 

 eighth row only visible at the middle, interstices flat and impunctate. 

 Body beneath and legs flavous ; intermediate and posterior tibia& 

 strongly emarginate at the apex ; claws bifid. Prosternum sub- 

 quadrate, anterior margin strongly produced. 



Length 2^ mm. 



Hctb. Bengal: Mandar ( CoU. Jacoby). 



Much smaller than R. khasianensix, legs entirely fulvous, second 

 joint of the antennae much longer, elytra with a depression and not 

 wider at base than thorax. 



670. Rhyparida immaculata, sp. n. 



Pale fulvous ; apical joints of antennae black. 



Head entirely impunctate, vertex above eyes with a deep short 

 groove on each side that nearly meet in front ; clypeus broadly 

 subquadrate, separated from the face by a shallow transverse 

 groove, surface scarcely perceptibly punctured, anterior margin 

 concave-emarginate ; antennae with the basal five joints flavous, 

 rest black, second joint short, third and following joints very 

 elongate. Thorax twice as broad as long, sides rounded, base 

 with a submarginal deeply impressed line, anterior margin with 

 a similar but less deep line, surface only slightly convex, im- 

 punctate. Scutellum oblong, impunctate. Elytra slightly wider 

 at base than the thorax, oblong, scarcely perceptibly depressed 

 below the base, moderately strongly and regularly punctate- 

 striate, the punctures very closely placed, scarcely finer at the 

 apex than anteriorly, interstices sparingly and minutely punctured ; 

 seventh and eighth rows of punctures abbreviated, the outer two 

 rows rather deeply impressed below the shoulders. Prosternum 

 broadly subquadrate. Tibiae strongly emarginate at apex ; claws 

 bifid. Anterior margin of thoracic episternum concave. 



Lenytli 4 mm. 



Hob. India (Coll.Jacoby). 



Larger than R. bengalensis, the clypeus of different shape and 

 impunctate,the thorax more stronglytransverse, less subcylindrical, 

 second joint of the antennae short, elytra wider at base. 



671. Rhyparida aterrima, Jac. Ann. Mm. Civ. Genova, xxxii, 1892, 



p. 911. 



Black, the basal joints of the antennae fulvous. 



Of an entirely deep black colour. Head obsoletely punctured 

 and with a more or less distinct oblique ridge at the sides of the 

 vertex ; the clypeus separated from the face by a transverse 

 groove, transversely subquadrate, with a few fine punctures, the 

 anterior edge dentate at the middle ; labrum and palpi fulvous ; 

 antennae black, not extending to half the length of the elytra, the 



