412 



CHBY8OMBUDJB. 



Thorax half as broad again as long, nearly black, anterior margin 

 obscure fulvous ; surface with a very obsolete sulcus, punctured 

 like the head, thickly clothed with yellowish hairs ; sides with two 

 small teeth. Elytra with similar sculpture, pubescence yellow. 



Length 5 mm. 



Hob. Assam (Coll. Jacoly). 



Genus LYPESTHES. 



Lypesthes, Baly, Journ. Ent. ii, 1863, p. 152 ; Chapuis, Gen. Cottopt. 

 x, 1874, p. 273 ; Lefcv. Cat. Eumolp. 1885, p. 74. 



Type, L. ater, Motsch., from Japan. 



Mange. India ; China ; Japan. 



Subelongate, subcylindrical ; clothed above and beneath with fine 

 suberect hairs. 



Head perpendicular ; antennae slender, filiform, first joint in- 

 crassate, second shorter than the third, terminal five slightly 

 thicker than the preceding joints except the first ; eyes prominent, 

 entire ; apical joint of palpi ovate. Thorax subcylindrical, 

 lateral margins obsolete. Elytra broader than the thorax, parallel- 

 sided, upper side coarsely punctured. Legs slender, elongate ; 

 femora moderately incrassate, toothed ; claws bifid. Prosternum 

 and mesosternum oblong. 



729. Lypesthes indica, sp. n. 



Black, finelv pubescent ; basal joints of antennae fulvous. 



Oblong, subcyliudrical. Head 

 finely rugose and pubescent ; cly- 

 peus transversely depressed ; labrum 

 fulvous ; antennae filiform, basal 

 joint short and thick, second more 

 slender but nearly as long, following 

 joints elongate, terminal two shorter, 

 basal three fulvous, rest black. 

 Thorax subcylindrical, not longer 

 than broad, sculpture and pubescence 

 similar to those on the head. Elytra 

 much wider than the thorax at 

 base, extremely closely punctured ; 

 the punctures somewhat regularly 

 arranged in rows, of transverse 

 shape; the interstices finely trans- 

 versely wrinkled at base, slightly 

 costate at apex and furnished with 

 rows of short grey hairs. Legs 



elongate, femora with a small tooth ; claws bifid. Prosternum 



oblong. 



Length 4k mm. 



Hal. Burma : Euby Mines (Coll. Brit. Mus.). 



Fig. 143. Lypesthes indica. 



