250 ME. J. S. BALT ON NEW SPECIES 



the lateral ones sinuate ; surface distinctly but not closely 

 punctured. Elytra scarcely broader tliau the thorax, broadly 

 oblong, sides nearly parallel, scarcely converging towards the 

 apex ; above convex, flattened along the suture ; each elytron 

 indistinctly excavated on the middle disk below the basilar space, 

 the humeral callus prominent, compressed ; rather strongly 

 punctured, the punctures arranged in ill-defined longitudinal 

 strice ; surface clothed with a number of erect, rigid, griseous hairs, 

 each springing from a single puncture and forming longitudinal 

 rows. 



Genus Lepbotes, Baly. 



Leprotes fulva, n. sp. Elongata, subcylindrica, subtus picea, gviseo- 

 pilosa, pedibus sordide fulvis, femoribus apice tarsisque piceis ; supra 

 piceo-fulva, pube subsquamiformi concolon dense vestita ; antennis 

 nigris, basi piceis; thorace vix latiore quam longiore, lateribus 

 rotundatis, antice breviter constrictis, subcylindrico, rugoso-punctato; 

 elytris oblongis, parallelis, convexis, infra basin breviter transversim 

 excavatis, fortiter substriatim punctatis. Long. 3 lin. 



Hob. Mahlu San, coast of Tartary. 



AVhole body above densely clothed \^ith linear, adpressed, scale- 

 like hairs. Head coarsely punctured, front impressed with a 

 longitudinal groove ; clypeus not separated from the upper face, 

 nearly glabrous, very slightly oblique, its anterior border very 

 faintly sinuate ; face above the clypeus concave ; antennae four 

 fifths the length of the body, slender, filiform, the three or four 

 lower joints pale piceous, more or less stained with nigro-piceous ; 

 basal joint thickened, subclavate, slightly curved ; the second 

 moderately thickened, two thirds the length of the first ; the third 

 slender, filiform, rather longer than the fourth. Thorax sub- 

 cylindrical, slightly constricted at the apex, coarsely rugose- 

 punctate. Scutellum wedge-shaped, its apex obtusely truncate, 

 its surface rugose. • Elytra broader than the thorax, parallel, 

 subacutely rounded at the apex ; above convex, faintly depressed 

 below the basilar space, the latter very slightly thickened ; 

 strongly punctured, the punctu.res rather fainter towards the 

 apex, arranged in irregular longitudinal rows ; interspaces below 

 the basilar space rugulose ; on each elytron are several ill- 

 defined, slightly raised, longitudinal vitto?. Legs slender, 

 elongate. 



