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third and following joints elongate and slender, the apical 

 joints in the type wanting. Thorax twice as broad as long, the 

 sides rounded, the surface impunetate or with a few very minute 

 punctures, the extreme hasal margin impressed with a row of 

 deeper punctures. Scutellum broader than long. Elytra not 

 depressed below the base, strongly punctured, the punctures 

 arranged in closely approximate rows which form divided stria? 

 near the apex, the puncturation at the sides below the shoulders 

 more irregularly placed. Anterior femora with a strong tooth, the 

 others less strongly dentate. 



5 . Third to the terminal joints of the antennae nearly equal, the 

 last two joints piceous. Head and the thorax entirely impunetate. 



Length 5 mm. 



Hob. Bengal : Barway, Mandar ; Southern India : Nilgiris. 



The general colour of this species is pale fulvous in all the 

 specimens before me; the nearly impunetate thorax and the 

 elytral puncturation differ entirely from any of its congeners from 

 the same region. 



814. Tricliona inconspicua, S p. n. 



Testaceous. Head impunetate, with a short central groove ; eyes 

 with a very narrow sulcus near their inner margins : clypeus 

 transverse, feebly separated from the face, surface with some fine 

 punctures ; antennas long and slender, second joint nearly as long 

 as the third, apex of terminal joints stained with fuscous. Thorax 

 twice as broad as long, sides rounded, surface entirely impunetate. 

 Elytra slightly wider at base than the thorax and with a shallow 

 transverse depression below the base, very strongly punctate- 

 striate, punctures very fine at the apex, last interstice at shoulders 

 slightly costate. Body beneath impunetate. Prosternum narrowed 

 anteriorly. Anterior femora armed with a strong tooth. 



Length 2| mm. 



ffab. Southern India : Nilgiris. 



Differs from T. variab-iUs in the entirely impunetate head and 

 thorax. 



815. Tricliona indica, Jac. Mem. Soc. Ent. Belg. vii, 1900, p. 110, 



Dark fulvous or piceous ; apical joints of the antennae black. 



Head finely and sparingly punctured ; the clypeus broad, 

 distinctly separated from the face, punctured like the head : 

 labrum fulvous; eyes very laige; antennae black, the basal four 

 joints flavous or fulvous, the second and third joints thickened, 

 equal, the fourth more elongate and slender. Thorax twice as 

 broad as long, the sides rounded, the angles distinct, the surface 

 finely and subremotely punctured. Elytra strongly and regularly 

 punctate-striate, feebly depressed below the base, the punctures 

 stronger at the sides and within the depression than near the 

 suture, the apex more finely punctured, the interstices at the 



