208 Mr. J. S. Baly on new specien of Phytophagous Beetles. 



posterior thighs excepted) pale yellow ; claws more or less stained 

 with piceousj hinder femora strongly incrassate, ovate, their 

 under sui'face armed near the apex with two acute spines. 

 Hab. Nepal. 



Temnaspis insignis. 



T. elongatus parallelus, nitido-fulvus, villosus ; elytris nigro-purpu- 



reis, macula apicali rufo-fulva; tarsis quatuor anticispiceis. — Long. 



5 lin. 



Elongate, parallel, shining fulvous, villose ; four anterior tarsi 

 piceous ; elytra purple-black, a narrow^ semilunate patch at their 

 apex rufo-fulvous. Head shining, deeply punctured, punctures 

 distant ou the face ; front impressed with a deep fovea ; antennse 

 more robust than in T. nigriceps. Thorax subcylindncal ; sides 

 constricted in front and at the extreme base, produced near 

 the latter into an obtuse tubercle; above shining, grooved at 

 the apex and narrowly so at the extreme base, anterior groove 

 dilated and angled in the middle ; sm-face deeply but not closely 

 punctured, sparingly covered with erect hairs. Scutellum tri- 

 angular, its apex emarginate. Elytra longer than in T. nigriceps, 

 broader than the thorax ; sides parallel ; apex rounded, dehiscent 

 at the suture ; above convex, less deeply and closely punctured 

 than in the last species ; shining black, covered wath long sub- 

 depressed hairs, apical margin rufo-fulvous. Beneath shining 

 fulvous, covered with long erect hairs ; posterior thighs as in 

 the last species ; four anterior tarsi piceous. 



Hab. Northern India. 



Longer and narrower than the preceding insect. 



Poecilomoipha Murrayi. 



P. subelongata, fulva ; pectore, abdominis fasciis, antennis pedibusque 

 nigris. — Long. 6 lin. 



Subelongate, fulvous, sparingly covered with adpressed hairs. 

 Head coarsely punctured ; clypeus separated from the face by a 

 deep transverse fossa ; antenna?, apex of jaws, and an indistinctly 

 raised tubercle between the eyes, black. Thorax transverse, 

 constricted at the base and apex ; sides rounded in front, pro- 

 duced posteriorly into a stout obtuse protuberance, which is 

 flattened towards the apex ; above convex, deeply grooved at the 

 base and apex, shining fulvous, sparingly punctured. Elytra 

 broader than the thorax ; sides subparallel ; apex rounded, de- 

 hiscent at the suture ; above convex, slightly flattened along the 

 back, shoulders slightly prominent ; surface closely and distinctly 

 punctured, sparingly covered with fulvous hairs. Beneath black ; 

 head, thorax, anterior coxee, a spot at the apex of the posterior 



