310 Mr. J. S. Baly's descriptions of new genera 



and subremotely punctured ; basal border narrowly mar- 

 gined, impressed with a single row of deep punctures. 

 Elytra broader than tlie thorax, broadly oblong -ovate, 

 slightly attenuated at the apex, strongly punctate- striate, 

 interspaces (when seen under a strong lens) very minutely 

 punctured ; on the inner disk before the middle they are 

 faintly transversely wrinkled. 



ChcBfocnema parvula. 



Ovata, convexa, cupreo-nigra, nitida, subtus piceo- 

 nigra, femoribus piceis, posticis apice exceptis nigris, 

 tibiis tarsisque fulvis, piceo-tinctis ; capite Isevi, cupreo, 

 antennis fulvis^ extrorsum nigro-piceis ; thorace subcre- 

 bre punctato, punctis oblongis, leviter impressis, ad latera 

 magis remotis ; elytris fortiter punctato-striatis, interspatiis 

 planis, externo ante medium incrassato. 



Long. |- lin. Hab. — Ceylon. 



Head rotundate, vertex and front impunctate, very 

 finely granulose ; front impressed on either side above 

 the eye Avith a short longitudinal sulcation, which runs 

 downwards into the oblique groove separating the inter- 

 ocular space from the front ; immediately exterior to the 

 sulcation is a single round fovea ; encarpffi obsolete ; 

 carina narrowly oblong, its lower apex acuminate ; an- 

 tennse more than half the length of the body, four lower 

 joints fulvous, the rest pitchy-black. Thorax more than 

 twice as broad as long; sides converging and rounded 

 from base to apex, the anterior angles thickened, nearly 

 perpendicular; above transversely convex, nitidous, im- 

 pressed, but not deeply, with oblong punctures ; hinder 

 border distinctly margined, impressed with a single row 

 of deeper punctures. Elytra broader than the thorax at 

 the base, attenuated towards the apex, convex, regularly 

 punctate-striate ; the interspaces plane, each impressed 

 with a single row of minute punctures ; anterior half of 

 outer interspace thickened. 



ChcBtocnema basalis. 



Breviter ovata, nigro-fenea, nitida, pedibus obscure 

 fulvis, piceo-tinctis, femoribus posticis nigro-seneis ; an- 

 tennis fulvis, extrorsum infuscatis ; thorace Isevi, disco 

 punctis oblongis subremotis, leviter impresso, basi serie 

 unica punctorum distinctorum magis fortiter impresso; 



