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excavated between the eyes, irreg-ularly punctured ; anterior 

 margin of clypeus concave- emarginate. Thorax rather more 

 than tAvice as broad as long ; sides roimded, converging from 

 behind the middle to the apex, the anterior angles obtuse, the 

 hinder ones rounded ; disc transversely convex, shining, impunc- 

 tate, excavated on either side near the lateral margin. Scutellum 

 trigonate, piceous. Elytra scarcely broader than the thorax, 

 parallel, very finely punctured ; the black markings on their 

 surface extend from the base nearly to the middle of the disc, 

 and again from tlie middle itself nearly to the apex, leaving 

 only an irregular flavous transverse band across the middle, 

 which sends a narrow ramus along the suture nearly to the base. 



4. Coptocephala diinidiatipennis, n. sp. 



Subelongata, subcylindrica, flava, nitida, corjiore inferiori, 

 capite elytrorumque limbo inflexo, f ulvo hirsutis, thorace la^vi ; 

 elytris tenuiter punctatis, nigris, a basi ad paulo ante medium 

 flavis. Long. 3-3|- hn. 



Hab. Jhelam Valley ; also India, my collection. 



Head clothed with long erect hairs, minutely punctiu-ed ; 

 clypeus not separated from the face, its anterior margin angulate- 

 emarginate ; apex of jaws black ; antennae equal in length to 

 the head and thorax, the basal joint thickened, pyriform, the 

 second also thickened, short, nodose, the third small, not longer 

 than the second, the fourth trigonate, scarcely longer than the 

 third, the rest to the apex dilated, the fifth to the ninth trans- 

 vei'sely trigonate, the tenth and eleventh ovate ; eyes large, 

 oval, notched on the inner margin. Thorax nearly three times 

 as broad as long ; sides obtusely rounded, slightly converging in 

 front, the hinder angles rounded, the anterior ones very obtuse ; 

 basal margin sinuate on either side the median lobe, the latter 

 slightly reflexed, very obtusely rounded ; upper surface trans- 

 versely convex, remotely and very minutely punctured, a concave 

 transverse space on and immediately in front of the basal lobe, 

 coarsely and closely punctured. Scutellum longer than broad, 

 subtrigonate, its apex obtuse. Elytra scarcely broader than the 

 thorax at the base, slightly dilated posteriorly, convex, rather 

 distantly and finely punctured. Body beneath and legs clothed 

 with long erect fulvous hairs. 



I possess two specimens of this species, both labelled India, but 

 without precise locality, in one of them the head is more coarsely 

 punctiu-ed and subrugose, in all other resj)ects it agrees with 

 the type. 



