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as broad again as long, sides slightly widened near base, surface 

 pubescent like the head with two very obscure fuscous bands at 

 the middle. Scutellum clothed with whitish pubescence. Elytra 

 extremely closely rugose-punctate, the arrangement of punctures 

 in rows very indistinct, scales fulvous ; a very indistinct narrow 

 transverse band at the middle and another more distinct and 

 broader band, consisting of two spots, and the apex whitish r 

 pubescent. Femora of typical shape and dentate; the emargination 

 of the intermediate tibiae distinct, latter widened at apex and 

 stronglv pubescent. 



Length 5 mm. 



Hab. Bengal: Mandar (Coll. Jacoby). 



745. Hyperaxis inalabarica, sp. n. 



Pale fulvous, clothed with fine yellow pubescence ; apical joints 

 of antennae fuscous ; elytra with some very obscure fuscous spots 

 at base and behind the middle. 



Head finely rugose-punctate, clothed with scale-like fulvous 

 pubescence ; clypeus transverse, more shining, closely punctured, 

 anterior border deeply emarginate in the middle ; antennae long 

 and slender, pale flavous, apical two joints more or less stained 

 with fuscous, third and following joints very elongate. Thorax 

 half as broad again as long, sides rather strongly widened in the 

 middle, surface sculptured and pubescent like the head. Elytra 

 oblong, subcylindrical, parallel-sided, shoulders acute, surface 

 strongly and extremely closely punctate-striate ; interstices not 

 larger than the punctures themselves, slightly wrinkled, furnished 

 with single, short, stiff black hairs and very sparse yellow pubes- 

 cence ; an obscure spot at the base, one near the suture behind the 

 middle and two transverse spots near apex fuscous. Anterior and 

 posterior femora strongly incrassate, each furnished with a large 

 tooth. 



Length 4 mm. 



Hab. Malabar : Mahe (Coll. Jacoby). 



In one specimen the elvtral pubescence is rather thicker, but 

 the spots, although rather obscure, are the same in number and 

 position in the two specimens before me. 



746. Hyperaxis dubia, sp. n. 



Obscure fulvous or piceous, clothed with grey pubescence or 

 scales ; thorax with a fine pale central stripe ; sides of elytra 

 mottled with small spots and greyish-white pubescence. 



Shape and sculpture as in the preceding species, but a larger 

 form and distinguished by the reticulate or mottled sides of the 

 elytra, which mottling forms a broad band that consists of small 

 spots of the ground-colour and whitish pubescence ; in some 



