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to each other in length, from the eighth to the eleventh they nre 

 shorter, the last being pointed; the whole antennae are eoxered 

 with pubescence. Eves si rongly convex. Prothorax much bro.ider 

 than long, upper surface some \ hat depressed, the lateral margins 

 somewhat explanafe, the explanate portion heing concave ; anterior 

 margin nearly straight, posteri r slightly sinuate, anterior and 

 posterior lateral angles rounded. IScutellum moderate'y large, 

 triangu'ar, with apex rounded. Elytra hardly broader at the base 

 than the prothorax, the sides rather nearly parallel, with the 

 margins slightly explanate and apex broadly rounded ; surface 

 closely, strongly and confusedly punctate. Underside: elytral 

 epiple ira extraordin iril\ r broad ; posterior femora v\ith a channel 

 on the underside; posterior tibia? with a pointed spine at the apex; 

 claw-segment of ihe posterior tarsi swollen; claws simple. 



Owin_ r to the shape and structure of the prothorax and the 

 extraordinarily expanded epipl ura of the elytra, Jacoby proposed 

 to keep Hyphasis as a monotypic genus, with Harold's magica, 

 from Darjee'ino:, as the type. 



Kan</e. The Eastern Himalayas. 



Fig. 60. — HyphaMS 7/iagica, Harold. 



90. Hyphasis magica, Harold. 



Hyphasis magica, Harold, Deutsche Ent. Zeitschr. xxi, 1877, p. 433. 



Reddish brown, sometimes much lighter, subnitid ; vertex of 

 head blue-black; a large elongate blue-black patch common rr 



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