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behind the scutellum ; the latter also in this genus being rela- 

 tively very broad. 



PsEPHENOiDEs, c. gen. 



Head moderately exserted ; subvertical or somewhat backwardly 

 inclined below ; eyes convex, entire, rather finely facetted ; antennae 

 not widely separated, nearly as long as body in male, with the joints 

 from the third increasing in length, and strongly llabellate, except 

 the eleventh, which resembles the flabellun of the tenth ; much 

 shorter in the female, with the joints from the third serrate and 

 gradually decreasing in length. Mandibles scarcely visible. Palpi 

 slender and ending in a setiform joint ; the maxillary about twice as 

 long as the labial. Pronotum slightly convex above, turned down 

 rather strongly at the sides, especiahy in front; basal margin broadly 

 rounded in the middle, a little sinuate at each side, and making with 

 the lateral margin an angle slightly greater than a right angle. 

 Scutellum very broad, rounded behind. Elytra separated from one 

 another, inner margins somewhat sinuate. Metanotum convex along 

 the middle, marked with two very shghtly curved, posteriorly con- 

 verging grooves. Prosternal process triangular, pointed behind, but 

 scarcely prolonged beyond the front coxas ; the latter prominent, 

 strongly transverse, with their acetabula widely open behind. Meso- 

 sternal process broad, channelled along the middle. Legs long and 

 slender, with very long tarsi, the first and fifth joint of which are 

 much longer than either the second, third or fourth, which gradually 

 diminish in length ; claws long, with a shght " feston " at base. 

 Abdomen in both sexes with six ventral segments visible, the sixth 

 being very small and narrow, the fourth strongly arcuate in the 

 middle behind, the fifth nearly truncate behind. 



Type of the genus P. immsi. 



Psephenoides immsi, sp. n. 



Dull brownish black in colour, covered with a short faint pubes- 

 cence. Femora yellowish, becoming dusky towards the tips, where 

 the colour is nearly as dark as that of the tibiae and tarsi. Scutellum 

 glossy. Wings, visible behind between the elytra, are dusky in 

 colour. (In the female specimen figured, the wings were bulged out 

 a little at the sides of the elytra where they show behind, but this 

 condition is not normal.) In all the specimens seen by me the short, 

 bead-Hke, second joint of the antennae is almost entirely yellowish in 

 colour ; but it would probably be darker in more matured specimens. 



Length, $ 3i-4 mm. Breadth, 2 mm. 



Hab. Bhowali, Kumaon, 5700 ft., May 15tb, 1912 (A. D. 

 Imms). 



The male antenna figured is from a specimen taken at 

 Lachiwala, near Dehra Dun, on February 8tb, 1913 ; it is 

 possible, as Dr. Imms thinks, that the specimens from this 

 locality represent a distinct species. But I have not been able 

 to detect any appreciable difference between specimens from the 

 two localities. The type of the species is a female specimen 

 from Bhowali. 



