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the third ; three lower joints nigro-piceous, stained with aeneous, the rest black. Thorax 

 broader than long; sides converging from the middle towards the base ; the anterior angles 

 slightly produced, obtuse, the hinder ones rounded, armed with a very small acute tooth ; 

 disc moderately convex, very minutely punctured, the punctures only visible under a very 

 strong lens. Scutellum trigonate. Elytra broader than the thorax, parallel, finely but not 

 closely punctured, the interspaces obsoletely wrinkled. 

 Hab. Murree. 



MACRIMA, n. gen. 



Baly, Cist. Ent. ii, 187582, p. 377. 



Corpus anguste oblongum, convexum. Caput exsertum ; antennis filiformibus, articulo 

 primo duobus sequentibus conjunctis cequali, his brevibus, longitudine fere cequalibus ; oculis 

 sub-rotundatis, prominentibus ; encarpis media contiguis ; carina obsoletd ; palpis maxillaribus 

 articulis duobus ultimis conjunctim anguste ovatis, ultimo apice acuto. Thorax transversus, 

 disco leviter excavatus. Scutellum trigonatum. Elytra thorace latiora, oblonga, confuse 

 punctata, limbo inflexo fere integro, concavo. Pecles mediocres, coxis anticis elevatis, obtri- 

 gonatis, contiguis; tibiis apice mucronatis ; tarsis posticis articulo primo tribus sequentibus 

 fere cequilongo ; unguiculis appendiculatis. Prosternum media angustissimum ; acetabulis 

 anticis integris ; episternis posticis a basi ad apicem angustatis. Type, Macrima armata. 



Macrima may be separated from Aulacophora, which genus it strongly resembles in 

 outward form, by the closed anterior acetabula and by the appendiculated claws. 



16. MACRIMA ARMATA. 



Baly, Cist. Ent. ii, 187582, p. 377. 



Anguste oblonga, convexa, pallide Jlava, subnitida, pectore, abdominis segmentis anticis 

 tribus basi, scutelloque nigris ; thorace tenuiter punctato, utrinque leviter excavato ; elytris 

 distincte subcrebre punctatis, punctis pallide fuscis, utrisque super marginem basalem nigro 

 maculatis. 



Long. 3^ lin. 



S . Facie tridentatd, dente intermedia compresso, nigro, apice deflexo ; clypeo utrinque ad 

 apicem foveolato. 



? . Facie tridenlatd, dente intermedia nan compresso, apice aeuto. 



Head exserted ; vertex smooth, impunctate ; face excavated between the eyes, clothed 

 with hairs, tridentate, the middle tooth compressed and deflexed in the $ , conical in the s ; 

 clypeus transverse, impressed at the apex on either side in the S with a deep fovea ; apex 

 of jaws nigro-piceous ; antennae slender, clothed with coarse suberect hairs, second and third 

 joints nearly equal in the S , the third one-half longer than the second in the 9 . Thorax 

 about three times as broad as long ; sides parallel and slightly sinuate behind the middle, 

 obliquely converging from the middle to the apex, the anterior angles slightly produced 



