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HALTIOINJE. 



Genus CLEONICA, Jaeoby. 

 Cleonica, Jac, Xote> Leyd. Mus. ix, 1887, p. 233. 



Genotype, Oleonica quadriplagiata, Jac. (Sumatra). 



Body oblong-ovate; eyes comparatively small and entire ; 

 maxillary palpi with penultimate segment thickened. Colour not 

 metallic. Antennae filiform, with all the segments except the 

 second elongate, somewhat attenuated towards the apex (in the 

 genotype the four apical segments are distinctly thinner). Pro- 

 thorax short, very transverse, with surface transversely sulcate. 

 Elytra irregularly, sometimes obsoletely, punctate, their epipleura 

 continued to the apices; the humerus is pronounced and con- 

 tinued obliquely behind as a broad ridge. Under side', posterior 

 femora moderately incrassate ; tibiae simple, unarmed; first 

 segment of posterior tarsi as long as the two following segments 

 together; claws appendiculate ; anterior coxal cavities closed 

 behind. 



In his generic diagnosis Jacobv erroneously states that the 

 anterior coxal cavities are op-n. Of the two examples from 

 which his description is taken, one, marked " type," is in the British 

 Museum, and this I have carefully examined, with the result that 

 I am able to correct the error. The coxae themselves are promi- 

 nent, and this fa-t obstructs the v iew of the prosternal process, 

 unless the insect is dissected under water. 



Range. Assam, Perak. Malay Archipelago. 



133. Cleonica nagaja *, sp. no v. 



Body oblong. Colour pale brown ; pronotum and breast darker 

 brown ; fourth to seventh segments of antennae blackish, the 

 two basal segments partly lighter brown and the four apical 

 pitch-brown ; elytra with the margins, suture, a transverse basal, 

 and a similarly transverse postmedim, hand, pitch-brown ; 

 scutellum generally light brown, in spite of the darker colour of 

 the surrounding parts. In some specimens the dark markings 

 on the elytra are paler or absent. 



Head large, vertex im punctate, mouth-parts exserted, labrum 

 large ; carina? within the narrow interantennal space well 

 developed. Antennae nearly reaching the apex of the elvtra : first 

 segment t he longest and club-shaped, second small and rounded, 

 third almost three times as long as second, and almost equal in 

 length to each of the following segments, the last (eleventh) 

 pointed ; the first two segments smooth, shining and hairless, the 

 rest covered with bristly hairs. Prothorax much broader than 

 long, narrower than the base of the elytra ; anterior and posterior 

 margins more or less straight, lateral margins oblique, slightly 



* From two Sanskrit words: naga, a mountain, and janan, to be born. 



