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spines, arranged in four oblique lines, the first solitary, the second 

 (with two spines) before the middle, the third (with three spines) be- 

 hind the middle, the fourth (with two spines) a little behind the third 

 line ; legs deep brown, tibiae rather paler. 



Length 9 lines. 



Hub. Silhet. Coll. Brit. Mus. 



MONOHAMMUS LARVATUS, n. S. 



M. ater, capite lineis quatuor albis, in genis brevibus, in lateribus 

 frontis, elongatis, macula triangulari inter oculos et post basin 

 antennarum, antennis articulis 5-8 albis, quarto basi albo, 

 upice nigro, ehjtris punctatis ; maeulis plurimis albis, humero 

 intus excavato et postice directo ; peclibus et abdomine subtus 

 pi/is cinereis vestitis. 



Black ; the head in front with two white lines widely separated 

 from each other, each cheek has a shorter white band ; behind the 

 notch which separates the antennae there is a triangular patch of 

 white hairs divided down the middle by a slight raised line ; an- 

 tennae have the first and second joints and the third at the base of a 

 reddish brown, the tip of the third joint is black, the base of the fourth 

 joint is white, the greater part of the joint being black ; the fifth, sixth, 

 seventh, and eighth joints are white, the terminal joints are brown ; 

 the thorax is in front shortly ciliated with white, the back is co- 

 vered with very small tubercles, the hind margin, except in the 

 middle, is narrowly margined with white ; the sides of the scutellum 

 are margined with white hairs ; the elytra have the shoulders fur- 

 nished with an abrupt knob, which extends backward and is hollowed 

 out on the inside ; elytra punctured, at the base slightly tubercu- 

 lated ; covered with short inconspicuous black hairs, and varied with 

 a great many small white spots formed by patches of short hairs ; 

 under side of body and legs with short greyish adpressed hairs ; the 

 second, third, and fourth segment of the abdomen narrowed. The 

 sternum projects between the middle pair of legs. 



Length 10^ lines. 



Hab. India (Coll. Children). Coll. Brit. Mus. 



MONOHAMMUS STEPHANUS, n. S. 



M . nigro-fuscus , capite punctato, vertice linea trausvo-sa sex 

 punctorum luteorum ; thorace supra vittulis quatuor longitu- 

 dinalibus luteis, medianis abbreviatis ; elytris singulis linea 

 obliqua alba, antice incrassata, apice subochraceo et linea 

 plagam magnum triangularem velutinam fuscam fere cingente. 



This species is allied to M . crucifer, but differs from it somewhat 

 in form, the thorax and elytra being rather narrower ; it is of a 

 deep brown, the head and first joint of the antennae are punctured ; 

 on the back part of the head is a transverse line formed of six small 

 yellowish spots, behind which is a black line indented in front ; 

 thorax above roughish, with points and with a few transverse wrinkles 

 in the middle, with four obscure longitudinal yellowish lines, one over 



