410 



rounded ; under sides and legs ferruginous-brown silky, the knees 

 greyish. 



Length 9 to 10 lines. 



Hab. Ceylon (F. Layard, Esq.), India? Coll. Brit. Mus. 



MONOHAMMUS SUBCRUCIATUS, n. S. 



M. pallide fuscus, elytris griseo subcruciatis et punctatis ; tho- 

 race supra subtuberculato et punctulato, spina laterali subcur- 

 vata ; thorace medio postice pallide lineato, scutello pallido ; 

 elytris apice intus obliquis. 



Near M. obfuscatus, the head is shorter and the eyes are larger ; 

 the thorax above is somewhat tuberculated and punctulated, the 

 lateral spine on each side somewhat hooked backwards, a short palish 

 line on the back part of the thorax, scutellum pale ; elytra pale 

 brown, punctured, with a large greyish cross-shaped mark, each of 

 the elytra at the apex obliquely cut inward. 



Length 8f lines. 



Hab. China (Hong-Kong) (J. C. Bowring, Esq.). Coll. B. M. 



MONOHAMMUS SUBLINEATUS, n. S. 



M. griseus fusco tinctus ; antennarum articulis apice fuscis, capi- 

 tis vertice linea Icevi ; thorace supra lineis duabus nigro-fuscis 

 postice convergentibus ; elytris griseis, fusco longitudinaliter 

 sublineatis, plaga mediana nigro-fasca. 



Griseous and tinged with brown ; joints of antennae brown at the 

 tip, greyish at the base, the first joint brown speckled with greyish ; 

 head brownish, a smooth impressed line between the antennae and 

 extending to back part of head ; thorax above with two deep blackish- 

 brown vittse converging behind ; elytra somewhat truncated at the 

 tip, greyish, and each with at least four longitudinal brownish lines, 

 at the base blackish-brown and tubercled, a large blackish-brown 

 silky patch touching the margin, but not the suture, transverse in 

 front and oblique behind ; legs and under side tinged with brown. 



Length 9 lines. 



Hab. Silhet. 



MONOHAMMUS SIERRICOLA, n. S. 



M. griseo-cinereus, capitis fronte et vertice ferrugineo tinctis ; 

 thoracis dorso plaga magna nigro-fusca, postice ferrugineo 

 maculata, spina supra ferruginea ; elytris elongatis macida 

 communi quadrata fusca ante mediam ; ante apicem fascia 

 transversa nigro-fusca in suturam postice current e ; elytris 

 singulis apice truncatis et ferrugineo ciliatis. 



Of a grizzled grey ; the head in front and the crown tinged with 

 a yellowish ferruginous ; the front with a short brown line crossed 

 at the top by a wider line, sides of head grey ; antennae with the 

 first joint grey on the outside, brown on the inside, and yellowish 



