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posterior exterior angles acute!}' produced, the extreme edges of 

 the produced part sharply depressed. The pronotum is covered 

 with light brown erect pubescence. Scutellum brown, triangular, 

 covered with light brown pubescence. Elytra almost as broad at 

 the base as the prothorax. The surface is confusedly punctate 

 and covered with light brown pubescence. The three costse on 

 each elytron are very feeble though distinctly i-ecognizable. 

 Underside : the elytra project to a certain extent beyond the 

 abdomen, shining, covered with stiff brown hairs. 



Length 7 '5 mm. 



Manipur (Dohertij). 



Described from one example. 



Type in the British Museum. 



Lamellipalpodes, gen. n. 



The genus differs from LameUijoalpus in the length of the 

 head and in the approximation of the antennae, as has been 

 indicated in the key given above. The type of the genus is the 

 following species. 



Although I include the two new genei'a described here in the 

 family Drilidse, I am not sure about the position of Lamelli- 

 folpodes, g6n. n. When I examined Lamellipalpus nigripennis 

 Pascoe (Garo Hills, Mrs. Kemp) and Lamellipalpodes annandalei 

 Maulik at Calcutta, I was impressed by the fact that they both 

 possessed the remarkable lamellate palpal joints but did not 

 appear to belong to the same family. Dr. C. J. Gahan thinks 

 that Lamellipalpodes Maulik does not belong to the Drilidte, 

 but is more allied to the E-hagophthalmidse, a neighbouring 

 family of about three genera, including nine species. Without 

 further research it is 'not possible to decide this point. 



Lamellipalpodes annandalei, sp. n. 



Upperside yellow-brown, underside lighter; antennae except 

 the two basal joints, and the elytra except an ill-defined basal, 

 portion (which shares the colour of the pronotum) smoky black. 

 Eyes deep black. The whole body is covered with brownish 

 pubescence. 



Head narrower than prothorax, the interocular space piceous. 

 The first joint of antennae stout and large, second joint very 

 small and rounded, the third to the tenth similar in structure but 

 of gradually diminishing length, the eleventh bluntly rounded. 

 Prothorax broader than long, with a longitudinal median sulca- 

 tion ; posterior angles acute, pointed, anterior ones rounded ; 

 basal area depressed on either side of the middle longitudinal 

 line, basal margin bisinuate. Scutellum triangular, with the apex 

 rounded, brown, smooth. Elytra as broad at the base as the 

 prothorax. Corresponding to the prothoracic depressions, the 

 elyti-a are also depressed at the base. The surface neither 



