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and slender, femora with a distinct tooth ; tibise simple ; claws 

 bifid. Prosternum broadly subquadrate ; mesosternum not longer 

 than broad, covered with long hairs. 



Length 6 mm. 



Hal. Bengal : Maudar ; Southern Bombay : Kanara ; Malabar 

 Coast: Mahe. 



This species closely resembles Neculla obscurata, Jac., but all 

 the specimens I have seen of L. Icanarcensis are black with a 

 fine yellowish pubescence, while N. obscurata is entirely white on 

 account of the white excrescence and is furnished with long erect 

 white hairs which are absent in L. kanarcensis, the legs in the 

 last-named insect are also more slender and elongate. 



Genus DEMOTINA. 



Demotina, Baly, Journ. Ent. ii, 186.?, p. 158 ; id. Trans. Ent. Soc. 

 1864, p. 84 ; Chapuis, Gen. Coleopt. x, 1874, p. 281 ; Lefcv. Cat. 

 Eumolp. 1885, p. 80. 



Type, D. boivnngi, Baly, from China. 



liatuje. India; Ceylon; Burma; China; Japan; Malayan Sub- 

 region. 



Body oblong, subcylindrical, covered above and beneath with 

 small aclpressed scales. Head perpendicular ; antennae either 

 slender and filiform or rather more robust, subfiliform, basal joint 

 ovate, incrassate, second shorter than the first, the rest some- 

 what variable, four or five terminal joints rather shorter and 

 often slightly thickened ; eyes prominent, entire. Thorax trans- 

 versely convex, lateral margins either obsolete or finely serrate. 

 Elytra oblong, closely punctured. Legs moderately long ; femora 

 moderately thickened, armed each with a tooth beneath ; inter- 

 mediate or posterior tibia) or both notched at their apices ; claws 

 bifid. Prosternum oblong or oblong-quadrate, its anterior margin 

 continuous with that of the episternum. Mesosternum oblong- 

 quadrate. 



The notched tibhe separate this genus from Leprotes, the scales 

 instead of hairs from Lypestlies, and the equal thickness of the 

 femora from Hyperaxis. 



750. Demotina modesta, Baly, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1873, p. 164. 



Pale flavous; thorax slightly darker, entirely clothed with 

 flavous adpressed scales. 



Head with the clypeus very narrowly transverse, finely punc- 

 tured ; antennae pale, extending to base of elytra only, third 

 joint scarcely longer than the second, terminal joints short and 

 thickened. Thorax about half as broad again as long, lateral 

 margins very finely serrate. Elytra with very shallow depression 

 at the base, more strongly punctured than the thorax, punctures 



