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rotundatis, disco lajvi, modice couvexo ; elytris tenuiter confuse 

 punctatis. Long, l^ lin. 

 Hab. Murree. 



Vertex and front shining, impunctate ; encarpte transverse, 

 contiguous ; antenna; half the length of the body, second and 

 third joints equal, the fourth nearly twice the length of the 

 third, three lower joints nigro-piceous, stained with feneous, the 

 rest black. Thorax broader than long ; sides converging from 

 the middle towards the base, the anterior angles slightly pro- 

 duced, obtuse, the hinder ones rounded, armed with a very small 

 acute tooth; disc moderately convex, very minutely j^uuctured, 

 the piinctures only visible under a very strong lens. Scutellum 

 trigonate. Elytra broader than the thorax, parallel, finely but 

 not closely punctured, the interspaces obsoletely wrinkled. 



MACRIMA, n. gen. 



Corpus auguste oblongum, convexum. Caput exsertum ; 

 antcnnift filiformibus, articulo primo duobus sequentibus con- 

 junctis ajquali, his brevibus, longitudine fere tequalibus ; oculis 

 sub-rotundatis, prominentibus ; encarpis medio contiguis ; carina 

 obsoleta; palpis maxillaribus articulis duobus iiltimis conjunctim 

 anguste ovatis, ultimo apice acuto. Thorax transversus, disco 

 leviter excavatus. Scutellum trigonatum. Elytra thorace latiora, 

 oblouga, confuse punctata, limbo inflexo fere integro, concavo. 

 Pedes mediocres, coxis anticis elevatis, obtrigonatis, contiguis ; 

 tibiis apice mucrouatis ; tarsis posticis articulo primo ad tres 

 sequentes fere a^quilongo; unguiculis appendiculatis. Prostermim 

 medio angustissimum ; acetahulis anticis integris ; episternis 

 posticis a basi ad apic^m angustatis. Type Alacrima armata. 



Macriina may be separated from Aulacophora, which geniis 

 it strongly resembles in outer form, by the closed antei'ior 

 acetaliula and by the appendiculated claws. 



16. Macrima armata, n. sp. 



Anguste oblonga, convexa, pallide flava, subnitida, pectore, 

 abdominis segmentis anticis tribus basi, scutelloque nigris ; 

 thorace tenuiter j^unctato, utrincpie leviter excavato ; elytris 

 distincte subcrebre punctatis, punctis pallide fuscis ; utrisque 

 super mai'ginem basalem nigro maculatis. Long. 3|- hn. 



^ Facie tridentata, dente intermedio compresso, nigro, apice 

 deflexo ; clypeo utrinque ad apicem foveolato. 



