336 Mr. H. E. Andrewes on Oriental Caiabida3. 



less densely over green area at front of sides. Elytra elon- 

 gate-ovate, moderately convex, one and three-quarter times 

 as wide as prothorax^ and a little more than half as long 

 again as wide, widest just behind middle, shoulderi almost 

 obsolete; punctate-striate^ striole fairly long, intervals 

 nearly flat, each with two rows o£ very clear umbilicate 

 punctures, here and there irregular, surface dull. Upper- 

 side covered with a short, dense, yellow pubescence, con- 

 spicuous only when viewed from the side. Underside with 

 some coarse puncturation on sterna, fine on venter, pubes- 

 cence fine and very sparse, metepisterna nearly as wide as 

 long, without grooves^ prosternal process unbordered, 

 pilose. 



A Homalolachnus very closely allied to the African 

 (7. sexmaculatus^ Dej., but smaller and a little less elongate. 

 Prothorax more contracted in front than behind, surface 

 more closely and confluently punctate ; on the elytra the 

 yellow margin does not extend back beyond the intermediate 

 spot, and all the spots are more compact (in sexmaculatus 

 tlie colour on each interval is almost detached from that 

 on the neighbouring ones). The species is also much like 

 C. si/kesi, Hope, but in that species the head and prothorax 

 are relatively larger, the two front spots are not joined along 

 margin, 1 extends to stria 3, 2 to stria 2, and 3 covers 

 intervals 4-9. 



Assam : Brahmaputra River, above Jorhat, at light 

 (T. B. Fletcher — Agric. Ees. Inst. Pusa), 1 ex., ?. 

 KuMAON : West Almora (//. G. Champiom), 1 ex., $ , 

 Jaunsar (For. Res. Inst. Dehra Dun), 1 ex. (very defective). 

 I have made the Jorhat ex. the type and placed it in the 

 British Museum. 



Chlanius June BUS ^ sp. n. 



Length I0-5-1I-0 mm.; width 3-8-4-0 mm. 



Blue-black, iridescent and shining beneath ; head dark 

 bronze, prothorax with faint metallic lustre, explanate 

 margins dark blue; joint 1 of antennae, femora, and an 

 apical spot on each elytron testaceous ; joint 2 of antennse 

 and palpi brown ; rest of antennse, knees, tibiae, and tarsi 

 black. 



Head small, neck narrow and very slightly constricted, 

 frontal fovcse rugose, shallow, diverging behind, surface 

 moderately punctate, nearly smooth on vertex, eyes rather 

 prominent, labram truncate, antennae long and slender, 

 joint 3 nearly glabrous and equal to 4 ; last joint of maxil- 

 lary palpi (^ diamond-shaped, compressed at the pointed 

 extremity, and more or less hollowed out at sides, $ more 

 elongate, obliquely truncate and compressed at a])ex, last 



