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J fas. Auteuuis corpore longioribus; facie infra anteunis creta 

 transversa elevat:!, medio leviter emarginata instructo; clypeo 

 antice profunde inciso, disco profunde excavato, utrinque fascia 

 e pilis longis instructo ; paljjis articulo peuultimo incrassato, 

 comprosso, ultimo brevi conico, apice obtuso. 



Hab. The Plains of Assam. 



Head large, vertex smooth, impunctate; encai']uij transverse, 

 pyriform, separated by a broad groove; on the face just below the 

 antennae is a broad obliquely elevated lamina, its apex sinuate 

 on either side, its middle angularly notched, a longitudinal groove 

 running downwards from this notch to its base; clypeus very 

 deeply excavated, its anterior margin very deeply incised, the 

 incision extending upwards nearly to the base of the transverse 

 ridge, and dividing the anterior portion of the clypeus into two 

 large lobes, each of which is armed within Avith a short recurved 

 tooth; disc on either side furnished with a transverse band of 

 very long fulvous hairs, the apices of which curl spirally out- 

 wards; labrum very large, its apex obtuse. Thorax nearly twice 

 as broad as long; sides straight and very slightly diverging from 

 the base nearly to the apex, sinuate just behind the latter, the 

 anterior angles thickened, obtuse. Scutellum semiovate. Elytra 

 oblong, convex, excavated below the basilar space, finely 

 punctured. 



A single specimen only, a ^ , is known to me. 



Genus macrispa, Baly. 



1. Macrispa Saundersi, Baly. 



Hab. The Plains. 



A single individual, unfortunately much broken, fixes he 

 habitat of this rare insect; the unique specimen (now in my 

 cabinet), on which the original diagnosis was made, being with- 

 out a locality ticket. 



Genus AXisODEitA, Baly. 



1. Anisodera Gnerinii, Baly. 

 llab. The Plains. 



2. Anisodera e.rcavata, Baly. 

 Hab. The Plains. 



