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pubescente et valde punctata ; prothorace supra plagis duabus 

 riigris vix pubescentibus et valde rugoso-punctatis ; elytris dorso 

 juxta suturam late nigrescentibus, apicibus lateraliter dilatatis, 

 postiee valde emargiuatis. 

 Long. 28-30, lat. 8 mm. 



Hob. Nepal [General Hardwicke). 



Front of the head black, sparsely pubescent and strongly 

 punctured ; vertex and antennal tubercles with a thick yel- 

 lowish-white pubescence, with the pubescence so arranged on 

 the latter as to make them appear very prominent and pointed. 

 Prothorax strongly spined at the sides, with a yellowish-white 

 pubescence, with, on the disk, two scarcely pubescent blackish 

 spaces, which are seen to be strongly and rugosely punctured. 

 Elytra with a yellowish-white pubescence ; with a broad, 

 somewhat irregular, blackish space along the suture, not con- 

 tinued to the apex ; with a broad and rather faint longitudinal 

 depression on each side below the disk, and near the posterior 

 extremity of each of these depressions with two or three feeble 

 cariniform tubercles, which are covered over by the pubes- 

 cence ; each elytron deeply emarginated at the apex, so as 

 to leave a narrow blunt process on the sutural side of the 

 emargination and an obtuse, externally rounded, dilatation on 

 the outer side. Underside of the body and the legs with a 

 yellowish-white pubescence mixed on parts witli brown ; the 

 abdomen with some scattered, small, shining black spots. 

 Antennae with the joints from the third dark brown, ringed 

 with grey at their bases. 



Rhodopis pijierataj n. sp. 



R. puberai similis, differt prothoracis lateribus distincte et valde 



spinosis ; elyuis utrinque ad medium basis tuberculatis. 

 Long. 14-16, lat. 5 mm. 



Ilab. Nilghiri Hills (llampson). 



Head somewhat narrowly and triangularly concave between 

 the antennal tubercles, front and vertex sparsely punctured 

 and clothed with a pubescence which is partly greyish and 

 partly fulvous. Prothorax strongly and rather sparsely 

 punctured above, with a faint greyish pubescence and with 

 three narrow, longitudinal, tawny vitta± ; with a distinct and 

 rather strong spine on each side, which is directed very 

 slightly upwards. Elytra with a rather mottled pubescence 

 of gi'ey, tawny, and dark brown ; with a tubercle, surmounted 

 by a few small shiny granules, on each side of the scutellum ; 

 basal half of elytra sparsely punctured, the punctures disap- 

 pearing or becoming concealed beyond the middle ; apices of 



