DEMOTING. 429 



scales not very dense, more close above the suiuli fuscous spot 

 near the middle. Intermediate tibiae slightly emarginate at apex. 



Length 2% mm. 



Hab. Assam : Patkai Mts. (Coll. Brit. Mus.\ 



The smallest of the Indian species ; the elytral fuscous spot is 

 very obsolete, but similar on both elytra and marked above by 

 a slightly more dense accumulation of scales. 



753. Demotina serraticollis, Baly, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1867, p. 85. 



Piceous, subopaque ; antennae and legs rufo-piceous ; elytra 

 fuscous, clothed with fine grey pubescence and erect hairs. 



Head closely covered with adpressed dingy white scales : clypeus 

 transverse, not distinctly separated from the face, surface glabrous, 

 rugose, rufo-piceous ; antennje slender, nearly filiform. Thorax 

 transverse, sides rounded, convergent in front, lateral margins 

 armed with a single row of short teeth : surface transversely 

 convex, finely (" coarsely," Baly) punctured, rugose at the sides. 

 Elytra coarsely striate-punctate. clothed with dingy white, inter- 

 mixed with other dark fuscous scales that form irregular patches. 



Length 4 mm. 



Hab. Burma : Hub)' Mines ; Penarig. 



I cannot find sufficient differences between the Indian specimen 

 and the type to justify a separation ; the only variation seems to 

 be in colour. In the Indian form the ground-colour is fuscous 

 instead of piceous. I cannot call the puncturation of the thorax 

 or elytra "coarse," but, on the contrary, would describe it as 

 rather fine, even under a strong lens. 



754. Demotina balyi, Jac. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, xxxvii, 1889, 



p. 168. 



Obscure fuscous, covered with^ short greyish scales and erect 

 hairs ; clypeus fulvous ; antenna? flavous ; thorax with narrow 

 whitish bands ; scutellurn and some spots at the base of the 

 elytra whitish, the latter strongly punctate-striate, with au 

 obscure fulvous transverse band. 



Head dark fulvous, clothed with pale yellowish scales ; clypeus 

 fulvous, broader than long, without scales, strongly punctured, 

 its lower edge slightly emarginate ; apex of mandibles black ; 

 antenna? filiform, two-thirds the length of the body, the apical 

 joint fuscous, the third and fourth joints very elongate, equal, 

 following joints gradually shortened and slightly thickened. 

 Thorax more than twice as broad as long, the sides margined, 

 slightly widened at the middle and rounded ; the surface rugose, 

 dark fulvous, clothed with pale yellowish-white short adpressed 

 scales which form a narrow longitudinal vitta on the disc and a 

 broader stripe on each side, all the vittae are, however, indistinct. 

 Scutellurn thickly pubescent. Elytra very closely and deeply 



