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HALTICINiE. 



Head broad ; interocular and interantennal spaces, though 

 without carinae, uot quite flat, but slightly depressed in the 

 middle ; eyes more convex than in Ampfdmela, with a few strong 

 punctures between them. A ntenuse short, passing a little distance 

 beyond the base of the pronotum, the seven apical segments 

 thickened, hairy and almost equal, except the last, which is 

 pointed at the apex ; first segment long and club-shaped, second 

 thicker than third, which is almost equal to the fourth. Prothoracc 

 broader than long (length 1| or 2 mm., breadth 1 mm.); posterior 

 margin a wide arch, anterior almost, straight, sides convexly 

 rounded, very slightly margined, anterior angles almost right 

 angles, posterior obtuse; surface gradually and uniformly convex 

 from side to side, and very finely and obsoletely punctate. 



Fig. 69. — Glaucosphcera cyaneu, Buvivier. 



Scutellum triangular, broader than long. Elytra hardly broader 

 at the base than the prothorax, gradually broadening behind, 

 strongly rounded at the sides; surface moderately convex, irre- 

 gularly and very finely punctate, the punctures being very shallow. 

 Underside punctate and sparsely covered with hair; epipleura of 

 elytra slightly concave, very broad at the base, gradually narrow ing 

 towards the apex; other structures as stated under the description 

 of the genus. 

 Length, 4 mm. 



Eastern Himalayas: Kurseong (P. Bract). United Pro- 

 vinces: "West Almora and "West Bhatkee, Kumaon, v. 1920, 

 fourteen examples (B. G. Champion). 



Type in the Brussels Museum. 



