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with obsolète oblique grooves at the anterior margin, elytra 

 metallic blue, distinctly punctured in irregular rows at the sldes, 

 irregularly so near the suture, the interstices sparingly and 

 minutely punctate. 



Length 3 mill. 



Head impunctate, fulvous, frontal tubercles obsolète, clypeus 

 narrowly triangular, antenn?» fulvous, the last three joints black, 

 third joint one half longer than the^ second one, terminal joints 

 gradually thickened; thorax twice as broad as long, the sides 

 rounded, the angles acute, the posterior ones pointed, the surface 

 convex, impunctate, fulvous, with an obsolète, very short and 

 oblique groove at each side of the anterior margin, scutellum 

 fulvous, elytra with irregular rows of larger and smaller punctures 

 at the sides, the interstices slightly longitudinally costate at the 

 same place, the punctures finer and more Irregularly placed near 

 the suture, the interstices minutely punctured; below and the 

 posterior femora black, the under side of the thorax, the anterior 

 legs and the posterior tibias and tarsi fulvous, the last abdominal 

 segment with a short and rounded médian lobe (^?). 



Of Ihis species I possess two spécimens from Madagascar which 

 are well distinguished by the colour of the antennse, that of the 

 under side and legs and by the obsolète orjust indicated thoracic 

 grooves. 



HYPHASIS NIGROSGUTATA n. sp. 



Below black, above pale testaceous, the apical four joints of the 

 antennae black, thorax impunctate, scutellum black, elytra very 

 finely semirugose-punctate, the sides with an acutely raised longi- 

 tudinal Costa, legs black. 



Length 5 mill. 



Mas. Head deeply transversely depressed between the eyes and 

 longitudinally so between the antennae, clypeus elevate-carinate, 

 penultimate joint of the palpi thickened, longer than broad, antennae 

 slender, fulvous, the apical four joints black, basai joint broadly 

 dilated, its inner margin flattened and hatched-shaped, second one 

 short, third and following joints equal ; thorax about twice and a 

 half broader than long, with broadly flattened latéral margins, the 

 sides rounded, the anterior angles produced into a small tooth, the 

 surface transversely convex, impunctate, very shining, the base 

 with an obsolète transverse sulcation, scutellum black, elytra 

 nearly parallel, the basai portion strongly raised, the sides with an 

 acutely raised costa from the shoulders to below the middle, the 

 surface finely punctured and shghtly wrinkled, elytral epipleurae 



