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minute scattered black granules on each side of the middle. 

 Elytra minutely and sparsely granular near the base and with 

 minute and scattered punctures, which are almost entirely 

 concealed by the close pubescence ; the latter at the base is of 

 a greyish-brown colour, which passes behind without any 

 definite limit into a pale grey with a pinkish tint. About 

 the middle of each elytron is a dark brown pubescent spot, 

 which is obtusely pointed and definitely limited in front, and 

 passes gradually behind into the pale pinkish grey which 

 surrounds it. The apices of the elytra are truncate. An- 

 tennae about twice as long as the body in the male, scarcely 

 half as long again as the body in the female ; the scape with 

 a completely margined and pubescent cicatrice. The middle 

 tibise very feebly and indistinctly emarginate. The meso- 

 sternal process tubercled in the middle. 



MonoJiammus distinctus^ n. sp. 



Capitis fronte dense brunneo-griseo pubescente, vertice maculis 

 duabus nigro-velutinis ; prothorace supra subfusco ; postice cum 

 maculis ellipticis duabus nigro-velutinis ; scutello fusco, griseo 

 marginato ; elytris brunneo-griseis, ad basin subfuscis, singuloque 

 ad medium macula magna fusca ; antenuis ( c? ) ad basin griseis, 

 articulis a tertio fusco-testaceis griseo annulatis ; tibiis griseis, 

 fusco annulatis. 



Long. 13 mm. 



Hah. Assam. 



Head with the front convex and densely pubescent, the 

 lower lobes of the eyes small, the vertex with two velvety 

 black spots — one behind the superior lobe of each eye. Pro- 

 thorax even on the disk, with a dark brown pubescence some- 

 what mixed with brownish grey, and with two very distinct 

 velvety black spots on the posterior half, placed obliquely, so 

 that while posteriorly they come close together near the 

 middle line, anteriorly they are widely separated ; each is 

 narrowly margined with greyish except on its posterior bor- 

 der. Elytra with a brownish-grey pubescence, which 

 towards the base is replaced by a darker brown, and with a 

 large irregular dark brown patch on the middle of each and 

 smaller fuscous spots towards the apex ; the latter rounded. 

 Antennae more than twice the length of the body, with the 

 scape rather short, tiiis and the second joint greyish, the 

 remaining joints brown ringed with grey, each ring com- 

 prising the slightly externally swollen apex of one joint and 

 the base of the succeeding joint. The underside of the body 

 has a mixed pubescence of grey and brown. The legs are 



