HYPHASOMA. 



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Body broader, more than 3| mm. long ; 

 pronotum less strongly punctate than the 

 surface of the elytra 13. 



13. Elytra broad, piceous with a marginal [p. 169. 



fulvous band ; length 4 mm H Umbatipennis, .lac. 



Elytra with no marginal fulvous band. ... 14. 



14. Bodv ovate with the elytral margins 



reflexed ; elytra blackish with reflexed 



edges brown (typical form), otherwise [p. 169. 



uniformly coloured ; length 5-o.| mm. .. H. discipennis, Jac, 

 Body more nearly parallel-sided, elytral 

 margins not refl-xed ; the piceous colour 



of the elytra lighter in the middle ; [p. 170. 



lenuth 4 mm 11. discoid alis, Jac, 



15. Third segment of antennae shorter than 



fourth 16. 



Third segment of antennae not shorter than 

 fourth 17. 



16. Antennae extending to the middle of the [p. 170. 



body H. parvula, Jac, 



Antennae as long as, or exceeding, three- [p. 171. 



fourths of the body H. nigricornis, Jac, 



17. Antennae with the three basal segments 



differently coloured from the remaining [p. 172. 



segments; body elongate H. inornata, Jac, 



Antennae with the three basal segments of 

 the same colour as the remainder ; body 

 ovate, not elongate 18. 



18. Body broadly ovate, colour pale brown; 



antennae as long as three-fourths of the [p. 172. 



body //. unicolor, Jac, 



No such combination of characters 19. [p. 173. 



19. Interantennal carina sharply raised H. intermedia, Jac, 



Interantennal carina broader H. inconspicua, Jac, 



[p. 173. 



99. Hyphasoma bevani, Baly. - a, ^b^^t) O^Ub 



Hyphasis bevani, Baly. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) i, 1878, p. 315. 



Body ovate. Head, prothorax, scufelium, the three or four 

 basal segments of the antennae, and the legs (except the apex of 

 the femora), brown ; scufelium brown, edged with black; apical 

 segments of antennae black; underside piceous; elytra obscure 

 greenish-blue-black, the inflexed lateral margins of the elytra 

 narrowly edged with black. 



Head with vertex impunctate; frontal elevations contiguous, 

 well defined, separated from the front by a transverse impression, 

 the interantennal carina thickened. Antennae extending to about 

 the middle of the elytra ; first segment elongate, club-shaped, 

 second shorter, these two somewhat thicker than the following 

 segments, which are more or less nearlv equal to each other. 

 Prothorax much broader than long, sides slightly rounded, anterior 

 lateral angles thirkened, broadly and obtusely truncate, oblique; 

 upper side transversely convex, distinctly punctate, the punctures 



