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H ALTICINiE. 



India, (type-locality, Bretingham). Bengal : Sundarbans 

 (F. W. C. Champion) ; Calcutta, museum tank, 14. viii. 1906 

 (Indian Museum). Bihae: Pusa, Harpur, boring stems of seed- 

 ling- paddy, 12. v. 1919 (Pusa Coll.). Sikkim : Mungphu (Atkin- 

 son). Assam: Sylhet (British Museum). South India: Nilgiri 

 Hills (H. L. Andrewes). Ceylon : Hambantota, 25. xi. 1907 

 (T. B. Fletcher); Tandalle, 30. xi. 1907 (T. B. Fletcher). 



Type in the British Museum. 



143. ChaBLocnema nagpurensis, Duvivier. 



Chattocnema naypurensis, Duviv., Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxxvi,. 

 1892, p. 422. 



Subovate, moderately convex. Black, with head, prothorax and 

 elytra bronze, antennae and legs light brown, posterior femora 

 bronzy-black, anterior and intermediate femora marked with 

 pitchy-black. 



Head finely rugulose and finely punctate, without frontal carina^ 

 with a small depression between the eyes, and the front large and 

 declivous. Prothorax about one and a half times broader than 

 long, transversely convex, with the anterior lateral angles placed 

 in a lower plane, sides almost straight; surface rugulose, some- 

 what closely, very finely and uniformly punctate; along the basal 

 margin is an uninterrupted series of strong and deep punctures. 

 Elytra somewhat broader at base than prothorax, with the 

 humerus moderately prominent ; strongly punctate-striate, the 

 interstices subconvex, densely punctate and transversely wrinkled, 

 the area surrounding the scutellum very gently convex. 



Length, 2 mm. 



Bihar : Barwa [Barway] (Fere Cardon). 



The location of the type is unknown to me ; I have heard from 

 Mons. Severn) that it is not in the Brussels Museum. The species 

 was described from one example. The above description is a 

 translation from the original French. 



144. Chaetocnema duvivieri, Jacoby. 



Chcctocnema duvivieri, Jac, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, xxxii, 1892, 

 p. 939. 



Colour greenish-black ; the five basal segments of the antenna? 

 brown, the rest of the antennal segments black ; the four anterior 

 femora stained uith pitchy colour, posterior femora greenish-black, 

 remaining; parts of legs brown. 



Head broad and robust, finely and sparingly punctate, eyes 

 distant, frontal tubercles entirely absent, clvpeus broad, deflexed, 

 labrum and lower portion of the face very short, abruptly truncate, 

 furnished with some single whitish hairs. Antennas extending to 

 half the leu ^ih of the elytra; third and fourth segments equal, 

 scarcely longer than second but much thinner, terminal segments 



