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few yellowish scales at the base just above the eye. Antennae red-brown, with the 

 scape paler ; funicle gradually widening to apex, joints 2 to 7 transverse, 2 scarcely 

 longer than 3. Prothorax about as long as broad, almost parallel-sided from the base 

 to the middle, thence roundly narrowed and shallowly constricted near the apex, 

 coarsely punctate throughout, with a smooth narrow central line extending from the 

 apex nearly to the base. Scutellum small, subcircular. Elytra a little broader at 

 the shoulders than the prothorax, deeply striate, the intervals plane and shiny, bearing 

 one or two irregular rows of faint punctures, each containing a small recumbent dark 

 seta. Legs clothed with long white scales, the femora sub-linear and without a tooth, 

 the second joint of the tarsi scarcely broader than the first, the tarsal claws free. 



Fig. 3. Baris jportulacae, Mshl., sp. n. 



Length, 2'5-3*5mm. ; width, 1-1 "75 mm. 



Bengal : Pusa. 



Boring in the stems of purslane (Portulaca oleracea). 



I know of no Indian species which much resembles this insect, but it is very closely 

 allied to B. multivaga, Champion, from the Seychelles. The latter is a rather larger 

 insect in which the punctures on the prothorax are more widely separated, while those 

 on the elytra are much coarser than in B. portulacae. 



Baris lorata, Mshl. (Ent. Mo. Mag., 1911, p. 207) attacks the same plant in the 

 Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. 



Athesapeuta oryzae, sp. nov. (fig. 4). 



Ground-colour rather shiny black, ornamented with patches of elongate yellowish- 

 white scales ; the whole lower surface fairly densely scaled, the scales being somewhat 

 closer on the meta-epi sternum ; head and rostrum bare ; prothorax with a broad 

 lateral stripe, which is continuous with the scaling of the lower surface, but interrupted 

 about the middle by a small bare kidney-shaped spot ; elytra with a large basal patch 

 consisting of lines of scales on intervals 3-8, those on 5 and 6 the longest, those on 

 4, 3, 7 and 8 diminishing in the order given, the whole patch covering about one-third 



