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HALTICINiE. 



being very fine ; lateral margins moderately dilated, reflexed. 

 Scutellum triangular with apex rounded and surlace impunctate. 

 Elytra slightly broader at the base than the prothorax, but 

 generally broader behind ; surface rather strongly and closely 

 punctate, lateral edges inflexed and slightly concave. Underside : 

 prosternum oblong-quadrate, its lateral margins concave, its apex 



Fig. 63. — Hyphasoma hevani, Baly. 



truncate and the surface nearly flat : outer edge of the posterior 

 tibiae serrulate near the apex ; basal segment of the posterior 

 tarsi slightly longer than the following two together. 

 Length, 2| mm. 



Southern India (type-locality). Tenasserim : Tax oy (Doherty). 

 Perak (Doherty). Pen an G (Doherty). 

 Type in the British Museum. 



100. Hyphasoma nilapita *, sp. no v. 



Body oblong-ovate. Elytra greenish-blue-black ; scutellum 

 black ; prothorax and legs yellowish, posterior femora darker in 

 the middle and at the apex ; the three basal segments of the 

 antennae brown, the rest blackish ; underside brown, the central 

 parts of the abdominal sternites darker. 



* Sanskrit, " blue-yellow." 



