from India and Ceylon. 65 



the intermediate tibise grooved, and with the claws of the 

 tarsi rather broadly divergent, but not divaricate. 



With the intermediate cotyloid cavities open on the outside. 



This genus may be placed provisionally near Ectatosia ; it 

 does not seem to fit well into any of Lacordaire's groups. 



Pemptolasius humeralis, n. sp. (PI. VII. fig. 8.) 



Cinereo-pubescens ; prothorace sparsim fortiterque punctato, supra 

 lineis tribus longitudinalibus albis ; elytris supra t'ortiter et dense 

 punctatis, lateraliter minus dense punctatis ; humeris glabris, 

 nitidis, nigris. 



Long. 13, lat. 4 mm. 



Hah. Darjeeling. 



With an ashy-grey pubescence. Head with the front 

 sparsely punctured, the vertex more thickly punctured. Pro- 

 thorax a little longer than broad, with its sides parallel; 

 strongly and deeply punctured above and at the sides, the 

 disk with three rather faint white lines— one median and one 

 towards each side. Elytra broader at the base than the pro- 

 thorax, rather closely and strongly punctured above, less 

 densely punctured at the sides, each of the latter with two or 

 three feebly raised lines ; with a row of small white points 

 along the disk of each elytron, and with one or two small 

 white spots placed towards the side behind the middle of each ; 

 with the shoulders black and very glossy ; with the apices of 

 the elytra obliquely truncate. Legs with a greyish pubes- 

 cence ; femora with some scattered minute black points. 

 Antennas with the scape greyish, the remaining joints (the 

 fifth excepted) pale brown, with a faint greyish pubescence 

 and sparsely ciliate underneath ; with the fifth joint and the 

 apex of the fourth black, and thickly fringed with black hairs 

 underneath. 



Stibara suturalis^ n. sp. 



Fulvo-testacea, fulvo-pubescens ; prothorace lateribus obsolete nigro- 

 vittatis, leviter tumidis nee tuberculatis ; elytris lateribus dis- 

 tincte carinatis, disco obtuse minus distincte carinato, fulvis, cum 

 sutura, vitta longitudinali utrinque et marginibus oxternis (prope 

 basin exceptis) nigrescentibus ; antennis omnino nigris. 



Long. 18, lat. 5| mm. 



Hob. S. India (Nilghiris, Bel gaum). 



Allied to S. nigricornis, Fabr. Elytra with the suture and 

 the external margins (except near the base) , as well as a lon- 

 gitudinal vitta on each, black ; with three carinas on each, of 



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