460 Mr. Baly's descriptunis i>j' 



Genus ociiralea, Clark. 

 1. Ochralea niriricornis, Clark. 

 Hab. The Lower Hills. 



Genus iiylaspes, Baly. 

 1. Hylaspes Assamenfiis, n. sp. 



Oblonga, convexa, palHde fulva, nitida, tlbiis tarsis, culls 

 antennisque extrorsum nigris ; thorace transverso, lateribus 

 rectis, disco lasvi, utrinque profunde transversira excavato ; 

 elytris tenuiter punctatis, utrisque plaga suffusu magna a vix 

 pone medium fere ad apicem exteusu, fusca instructis. Long. 

 4^5 lin. 



Mas. Antenna? corpore a?quilonga\ 



F(vm. „ ,, breviores. 



Var. A. (f(r/n.) elytris totis flavis. 



Hab. The Plains. 



Vertex smooth, nearly impunctate, being only impressed on 

 either side with a few fine punctures ; encarpa? transverse, 

 curved, not contiguous ; carina thickened, trigonate, its apex 

 extending upwards between the encarpa? ; eyes large, prominent, 

 shining black ; antenna? equal in length to the body in the $ , 

 rather shorter in the ? , the second and third joints very short 

 and equal in the former sex, slightly longer in the latter, the 

 third in this sex being nearly one-half longer than the second, 

 the foiu'th to the ninth joints in both sexes compressed, very 

 narrowly dilated, narrowly elongate-trigonate, the upper internal 

 angles produced, acute, the three upper joints, together with 

 the apex of the preceding one, black. Thorax nearly three 

 times as broad as long ; sides straight and parallel, the anterior 

 aigles broadly and obliquely truncate, thickened, the outer end 

 in the $ produced laterally into a small acute tooth ; disc 

 smooth and shining, impressed on either side on the medial line 

 with a deep transverse groove, which extends from just without 

 the middle disc nearly to the lateral margin. Scutellum longer 

 than broad, trigonate. Elytra ranch In-oader than the thorax, 

 l)roadly oblong; their sides parallel, their apices broadly rounded; 

 disc convex, each elytron impressed just Avithin the humeral 

 callus with a short longitudinal row of deep punctures, the rest 

 of the svu'face minutely punctured. 



