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Luperomorpha Weisei n. sp. — Head, the antennœ, the 

 hreast and the posterior femora hlack, thorax flavous, elytra minutely 

 puncturedy hlack; abdomen flavous. — Length, 4 mill. 



Head impunctate, black, the frontal tubercles obsolète, clypeus 

 with a strongly ralsed central ridge, antennse black, robust, the 

 lower three joints fulvous, second and third joint very small, the 

 apical joint extending beyond the middle of the elytra, the fourth 

 and foUowing joints elongate, somewhat triangularly widened and 

 robust; thorax one half broader than long, subquadrate, flavous or 

 fulvous, impunctate, scutellum black ; elytra wider at the base then 

 the thorax, black, very minutely and closely punctured ; the breast, 

 the femora more or less and the posterior femora entirely black, 

 the other portions flavous as well as the abdomen, apex of the last 

 abdominal segment, black. 



Hah. Rauchi, India (Calcutta Mus. and my collection). 



L. nigripennis Duviv. seems very closely allied but bas the anterior 

 portion of the head testaceous and only the apical segment of the 

 abdomen of that colour, the insect is also of smaller size. 



Pseudocophora nicobarica n. sp. — Flavous, head and tho- 

 rax impunctate, the latter deeply transversely sulcate, elytra extremely 

 minutely punctured, flavous with a broad transverse black band 

 widened at the suture. — Length, 7 mill. 



ç^. Elytra with a deep fovea below the base. 



Head impunctate, flavous, clypeus strongly thickened with an 

 acute central ridge, antennse scarcely extending to the middle of the 

 elytra, flavous, the third joint longer than the fourth ; thorax twice 

 as broad as long, entirely impunctate, the dise with a deep, nearly 

 straight sulcus extending to the sides ; elytra wider at the base than 

 the thorax, minutely punctured, the entire dise occupied by a black 

 band which is strongly widened at the suture, leaving only a narrow 

 portion of the base and a rounded spot at the apex, of the flavous 

 ground colour, underside and legs entirely flavous, claws deeply 

 bifid. 



Hab. Nicobar Islands (Gollect. Calcutta Mus. and my own). 



Easily recognized by its coloration ; the base of the elytral fovea 

 in the maie has a blunt tubercle placed at each suture. 



Luperodes assamensis n. sp. — Ooate, convex, black, the 

 antennœ and the legs testaceous, thorax strongly and subremotely, 

 elytra coarsely and closely punctured, — Length, 2 mill. 



Head very finely and remotely punctured, the lower half piceous 

 or dark fulvous, frontal élévations very narrowly oblique, antennse 

 rather robust not extending to the middle of the elytra, flavous or 

 testaceous, the apical joint piceous, basai joint long and slender, 



