On CoJeoptera from ilie Nihjiri IliUs. 4G7 



LXIIL — LamelUcorn Coleoptera from the Nilqiri Hills. 

 By D. Sharp, M.A., M.B., F.R.S., &c. 



Fourteen species of Phytophagous Lamellicorn Coleoptera 

 were recently sent by ]\lr. C. A. Barber (Government Botanist 

 at Ootacamund, S. India) to the Cambridge Museum to be 

 named. On studying them it appeared that names could not 

 be found for nine of the species, and I here give descriptions 

 of seven of them. Of the other two species only single 

 examples were sent, and they remain to be dealt with when 

 more material shall have been received. A complete set of 

 the new species has been placed in the British Museum 

 (Natural History) and also one in the Museum of the Univer- 

 sity at Cambridge. 



Ilolotrichia repetita^ sp. n. 



Elongata, testacea, plus minusve picescens, parce punctata ; supra 

 nitida, subtus pectore sat dense villoso ; capite ecarinato, dense 

 fortiter punctate, cljpeo fere rotundato; thorace brevi, parce 

 punctate ; elytris fortiter et irregulariter puuetatis, subcostatis, 

 utrinque ad basin impressis, impressione oblique strigulosa. 



Long. 18-20 mm. 



This species has quite the aspect of a somewhat long and 

 narrow RMzotrogus. The clypeus is slightly emarginate in 

 the middle and the whole of the upper surface of the head is 

 coarsely subrugosely punctate. The thorax is very short, 

 the hind angles are definite and obtuse, not at all rounded, 

 the lateral margin is very fine, its front half is very obscurely 

 crenate, there is no expansion, or at most a very slight one. 

 at the front angles ; the punctuation is rather distant and 

 coarse, the surface quite shining. Scutellum broad, coarsely 

 punctate. Elytra coarsely and irregularly punctured, elevated 

 along the suture, and each with four other longitudinal 

 elevations — the one next the suture diverges from it in front 

 and disappears before reaching the base; the second is parallel 

 with the first, and between the two at the base there is a 

 depression which is always crossed by two or three fine 

 rugae ; the third elevation is much shorter, and the fourth is 

 a slender one parallel with the outer margin. Pygidium 

 rather small, densely punctate, not convex. Legs long and 

 slender. Labrum deeply divided, its lobes subtruncate. 

 Mentum with only four or five setae on each side in. front. 

 Antennae 10-jointed, the club about as long as joints 2-7. I 

 am not sure whether all the specimens before me are males or 



