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with a uniform yellowish-grey pubescence. Antennae in the 

 female not quite so long as the body, blackish brown, with a 

 greyish pubescence. 



This species presents the preapical carina of the elytra and 

 the carination of the femora which are characteristic of the 

 genus. It may be distinguished from X. amoena, Pasc, 

 which it most nearly resembles, by the darker colour of its 

 derm and by the regular and very distinct longitudinal ridges 

 on the disk of the prothorax. In one specimen, from Tavoy, 

 Burmah, belonging to the collection of Alexander Fry, Esq., 

 there are only four perfectly straight longitudinal ridges on 

 the prothorax, those external to them being more or less 

 wavy ; in the specimen from N. India which I have selected 

 as the type there are six perfectly straight ridges, while 

 external to these there are on each side two others which are 

 nearly straight. In X. amoena (the type of which, through 

 Mr. Pascoe's kindness, I have been enabled to see) the ridges 

 of the prothorax are not so strong and are all more or less 

 irregular. Two specimens from the Nilghiris agree with 

 Mr. Pascoe's type in this respect. 



Gnatholea simplex, n. sp. 

 Omnino brunneo-griseo-pubescens, absque maculis eburneis. 



Hob. N. India (Darjeeling). 



With a rather close brownish-grey pubescence. Legs and 

 antennas with a similarly coloured but fainter pubescence. 

 Elytra with a few scattered somewhat asperate punctures. 

 Prothorax with two rather feeble tubercles placed a little in 

 front of the middle of the disk. 



This species has the characteristic mandibles of the genus 

 and agrees generally with G. stigmatvpennis, White, and G. 

 eburifera, Thorns. It wants the ivory spots of the elytra met 

 with in other species, and the elytra present fewer and smaller 

 punctures than in the two species just mentioned. 



Nyphasia fuscipennis, n. sp. 



Rufo-fulvescens ; antennis pedibusque (femorum petiolis exceptis) 

 piceo-fuscis ; elytris violaceo-fuscis, opacis, sat dense punctulatis. 



Hub. Bombay. 



Head, prothorax, scutellum, body underneath, and stalks 

 of the femora reddish fulvous. Prothorax rounded or some- 

 what obtusely tubercled on the sides, closely punctured 

 above and somewhat flattened on the disk. Elytra densely 



