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CIIRYS0MELIN2E. 



59. Pseudolina rama, sp. nov. 



Body oblong, narrowed behind. Colour shining dark brown 

 with a bluish tinge. 



Head large, broad, sparsely and finely punctate on the central 

 area and on the clypeus, more closely on the vertex and on the 

 lateral areas. Antenna? long and slender, more than half the 

 length of the body, sparsely covered with fine whitish hairs ; first 

 segment thickened, second small, almost globular, third elongale, 

 fourth and fifth each shorter than third, from the sixth onwards 

 the segments become slightly thicker and opaque. Prothorax as 

 broad as long, convex, broadened in front, narrowed behind, front 

 and basal margins straight, sides slightly convex in front of the 

 middle, anterior angles rounded and posterior right angles; upper 

 surface uniformly and fairly closely covered with fine punctures. 

 Scutellum triangular, much broader than long, smooth and 

 impunctate. Elytra slightly broader at the base than the 

 prothorax, smooth, fairly closely covered with fine punctures; 

 very fine lines joining puncture to puncture can be seen, but this 

 striolation is without any regularity or uniformity. Underside 

 finely punctate, each puncture bearing a fine silvery hair; the 

 punctures are more crowded on the sides of the abdominal 

 sternites. As compared with the size of the insect the legs are 

 long ; femora thicker in the middle. 



Length, 5 mm. ; breadth, 3 mm. 



United Provinces : Dehra Dun. 



Type in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. Described from one 

 example. 



Genus POTANINIA, Weise. 



Potaninia, Weise, Ilor. Ross, xxiii, 1889, p. 603. 



Genotype, Potaninia polita, Weise 1889 (China). 



Body elongate-ovate, convex, shining. The apical segment of 

 the maxillary palpi conical and pointed. Antennae filiform, the 

 segments of almost equal thickness throughout, about a millimetre 

 shorter than the length of the body. Eyes convex. Mandibles 

 large and strong. Prothorax snbparallel, quadrate, slightly 

 broader than long, and at the base almost as broad as the base of 

 the elytra. Elytra slightly broadened behind the base, then 

 parallel and somewhat narrower at the apex, punctate, the 

 punctures arranged in rows near the suture and near the outer 

 margin, while those in the middle are confused; epipleura without 

 cilia-like bristles on the inner margin. Anterior coxal cavities 

 closed. Prosternum broad, metasternum bordered all round with 

 a deep furrow. The third (bilobed) segment of the tarsus entire; 

 claws simple throughout. 



Banr/e. Eastern Himalayas, Assam, China. 



No key to the Indian species of this genus is given, since I 

 believe that only one is really known from the region under review 



