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width, the sides almost straight and with only a slight ante- 

 rior constriction, the upper surface with rather distant low- 

 granules, the apical area rugose, the antescutellar angle 

 slightly elevated. Scutellum oval, shallowly impressed. 

 Elytra much broader than the prothorax, with the shoulders 

 very prominent and roundly rectangular, the sides narrowing 

 very slightly to beyond the middle, the longitudinal outline 

 very convex and deepest before the middle, with regular rows 

 of fovea?, the intervals being rather narrow, irregular, rugose, 

 and sparsely set with very short, curved, pale seta?, the poste- 

 rior calli prominent. Legs very coarsely punctate, the femora 

 comparatively slender, with a fringe of long hairs beneath 

 and with a long sharp tooth close to the apex ; front tibise 

 with a single internal tooth at the basal third. 



Long. 8-<H, hit. 3f-4 mm. 



Punjab: Bashahr (E. P. Stebbing). 



COSSONINJE. 



Himatium asperum, sp. n. 



Rufo-brunneuro, setosum ; fronte evidenter confertim punctata ; 

 rostro omnino recto subcylindrico, a capite abruptius emisso, in 

 medio dorsi subtilius punctato, alibi punctis majoribus sub- 

 confluentibus ; prothorace subdepresso, undique reticulato-punc- 

 tato, setis transversim reclinatis induto, prope basin latiore, 

 lateribus vix rotundatis, antice profunde constricto ; elytris late 

 et profunde punctato-striatis, interstitiis omnibus setis reclinatis, 

 alternis setis squamiformibus erectis obsitis. 



Uniform red-brown, with stout pale setse. 



Head very convex and closely and distinctly punctate, the 

 eyes scarcely visible from above. Rostrum about twice as 

 long as broad, straight, parallel-sided, almost cylindrical, and 

 projecting from the head at an angle with the forehead ; for 

 the most part with coarse and longitudinally confluent punc- 

 tures, except in the centre of the disk, where the punctures 

 are even finer than those on the head ; with a few short scale- 

 like seta? and a transverse row of four very long erect ones 

 at the extreme base. Prothorax nearly half as long again as 

 broad, widest near the base and gradually narrowed ante- 

 riorly, with a deep constriction near the apex ; the upper 

 surface rather flattened, with coarse reticulate punctation and 

 long transversely recumbent seta? ; the anterior margin 

 laterally oblique and with a short, very dense, white fringe. 

 Elytra somewhat flattened dorsally, with broad stria? con- 

 taining large punctures, the intervals not broader than the 



