268 Mr. A. White on some apparently unrecorded 



diam partem macula rotundata alba ; tliorace medio fossis duabus 

 profundis postice subdivergentibus, lateribus simplicibus, 



Griseous, with a jnnkish hue, ratliei* roughly punctured, some 

 of the punctures brown ; anteimse with the joints at the base 

 cinereous, at the tip brown ; thorax in the middle with two deep 

 longitudinal fossae not reaching the fox'e margin, and slightly di- 

 verging behind ; sides of thorax simple ; elytra punctured, covered 

 with pinkish-grey short hairs ; on the side margin, just before the 

 middle of each elytron, is a large roundish white spot ; elytra at 

 the tip truncated, suture and margin mucronate ; middle of 

 abdomen and inside of legs grey ; under side of thorax, margin 

 of abdomen, and outside of legs tinged with pinkish. 



Length 8 lines. 



Hub. Silhet. (Coll. Brit. Mus.) 



Nyphona delicatula, n. s. 



N. Iseviuscula, punctata ; thorace subtuberculato ; elytris basi obscuris, 

 punctatis, medio tuberculatis brevi piligeris ; elytris fusco subma- 

 culatis, apice rubido subreticulatis ; aatennis pedibusque subrubidis 

 fusco annulatis. 



Smoothish, the upper surface gvey, mottled with different 

 shades and markings of brown and pink ; sides of the head and 

 two spots on the crown pinkish ; antennse with the first joint 

 brown at the base and pinkish at the tip, the other joints pinkish 

 at the base and brown at the tip ; the thorax punctured, slightly 

 tuberculated, with three indistinct brownish bands down the 

 middle ; elytra each with a brown band at the base, with four 

 short pinkish lines behind it, and a pinkish spot near the scu- 

 tellum ; the base in the middle is somewhat tubercled, with 

 shortish hairs ; the general surface is greyish, spotted here and 

 there with brown ; the apex of each elytron is somewhat reticu- 

 lated with pinkish ; the tip and hind part of the margin are 

 ciliated ; the legs are pinkish, and ringed with deep brown ; the 

 abdomen beneath down the middle is spotted with black. 



Length 8|-9j lines. 



Hub. Silhet. (Coll. Brit. Mus.) 



Nyphona cylindracea, n. s. 



N. angustata, cylindracea, cancscens ; antennarum articulis fusco 

 punctatis, articvdo tcrtio subarcuato ; thorace lato, supra, medio 

 excepto, tuberculato, laterilius singulis bidentatis ; medio linea 

 brevi impressa ; scutello fere Iscvigato, apice medio iinpresso ; ely- 

 tris singulis humero fusco foveolato, medio basi fasciculato ; elytris 

 apice trinmcronato ; femoril)us anticis incrassatis, supra subcris- 

 tatis ; tibiis anticis curvatis et infra ad apicem uni-spinosis. 



Narrow, cylindrical, hoary ; thorax nearly as wide as the ely- 



