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MoNOHAMMUS Ol I n 1 N vio it. 



M. ferrugineo-Juecue, pilia denaia veatitue, tkorace medio nudo ei 

 tranavereim striate, elytria apice rotundatia baei eubtubereu- 

 /u/t), singulis maculis duabus pattide fiavis, una ante, alia poet 

 medium partem elytri, elytrie punetis parviafiavia et oc/iraceis ; 

 elytria post scutellum poullo depn 



M. officinator, Dej. MSS. Coll. Chevr. 



Ferruginous-brown, clothed with a dense pile; thorai in the 

 middle with a slight bare space, transverselj striated; elytra at the 

 base covered with many small tubercles, behind the BcuteUum and on 



the suture slightly depressed, with many small scattered yellow and 

 ochreous sputa ; each elytron lias besides two Larger pale yellow spots, 

 differing in size iu different specimens, surrounded with a darker 

 colour, the first somewhat oblique and before the middle, the second 

 behind the middle ; underside and legs uniform ferruginous-brown. 



Length 11 to 12 lines. 



Hab. Assam. 



MoNOHAMMUS BRIANUS, 11. S. 



M. niijer, thorace supra vittis tribus albis, una. mediana ; scutello 

 alio ; elytris singulis apice truncatis, maculis 8 marginalibua 

 et suturolibus, plagisque quatuor albis in medio elutri, tertio 

 biangulato ; lateribus corporis subtus albo plagiatie, aegtnentia 



abdominis post ice albo ciliatis. 



Black ; thorax above with three white vittoe, one in the middle, 

 one on each side above the spine, the side below the spine with a 

 widish white band; scutellum white ; each of the elytra truncated 

 at the tip, the margin with four white spots, the suture with three, 

 and one before the tip ; down the middle are four largish white 

 patches, one at the base, the third shaped like a Z; under side of 

 thorax and body with a long white band. 



(Head wanting in the specimen.) 



Length of thorax and elytra 9 lines. 



Hah. Nepal (B. H. Hodgson, Esq.). Coll. Brit. Bins. 



MONOHAMMUS NIVO8U8, U.S. 



M. ferrugineo-fuaeua, aericeo-velutinua, front- ei ontennia eo> 



nescentibus ; thorace subtuberculato ; acutelli lateribua nigro- 



fuscis, apice truncato ; elytria eericeo-cania buai, ei lateribua 



ferrugineo-fuecie, apice fuaco, villa laterali intua biainuata ; 



eorpore subtus et pedibue ferrugineo-/uacia i i lytria 



singulis apice rotundatis. 



Of a ferruginous-brown, with punctured, almosl foveolated, elj tra; 



fmnt of head pale, whites! on the mar-ins; antennas pale; thorai 



what tuberculated, punctured ; scutellum short, truncated, Bides 



rery dark brown ; elytra of a satiny grei at the base, a slight patch at 



the tip, and a widish band on the sidi (which ia Insinuated on tin 



oner margin), ferruginous brown, and tin apei of each < 1; 



