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HALT1CIN.E. 



Antennte slender, more than half the length of the body ; from 

 the third onwards the segments are nearly equal; the apical 

 segments may be very slightly thickened. Prothorax much 

 broader than long, sides converging and rounded from base to 

 front, anterior angles thickened ; surface convex, shining, im- 

 pressed, but not deeply or very closely, with punctures, some of 

 which appear to be oblong and all of which are smaller than the 

 elvtral punctures ; posterior border distinctly margined and im- 

 pressed with a single row of deeper punctures. Scutellwm small, 

 triangular, with apex broadly rounded, impunctate. Elytra 

 broader than prothorax at base, attenuated towards the apex, 

 convex ; regularly punctate-striate, each elytron having eleven 

 rows, including a scutellar and a marginal row ; interstices flat, 

 but the anterior portion of the outermost interstices is somewhat 

 thickened. Underside : elytral epipleura with a marginal longi- 

 tudinal row of punctures. 

 Length, l|-2 mm. 



India (type-locality of basalis). Ceylon (type-locality of par- 

 vida). Burma (type- locality of geniculata). 



Bombay: Khandesh (T. R. Bell); Belgaum (Jacoby Coll.). 

 Nilgiri Hills (Z7. L. Andrewes). Burma: Tharrawaddy ( Andre wes 

 Coll.). Tknasserim : Tavoy (Doherty). Assam (Doherty). 



T have compared very oaref nil v the three types alluded to above, 

 which are all in the British Museum, but I can find no essential 

 difference to separate them. The species has a wide distribution 

 in India, Burma, and Ceylon. 



146. Chsetocnema subcostata, Jacoby. 



Chcetocnema subcostata, Jac, iinn. Mus. Civ. Genova, xxvii, 1889, 

 p. 203. 



Body robust. Colour piceous or nearly black ; antennae pale 

 yellow, the terminal segments stained with fuscous ; legs dark 

 brown, the anterior ones paler ; labrum brown. 



Head impunctate, vertex convex, inner margins of eyes bearing 

 some deep punctures, frontal tubercles and carina .-ibsent, inter- 

 ocular space with a distinct transverse impression ; clypeus broad, 

 deeply punctate at each side, its anterior margin straight. Antennae 

 two-thirds the length of the body ; basal segment very long, third 

 segment one-half longer than second and equal to the following 

 segments. Prothorax more than twice as broad as long, sides 

 perfectly straight, anterior angles oblique and thickened ; surface 

 minutely granulate, closely and finely punctate. Scutellum much 

 broader than long. Elytra deeply and regularly punctate-striate; 

 the interstices longitudinally costate, especially behind the middle, 

 and impunctate. 



Lengthy 3| mm. 



Burma : Teinzo (Fea). 



Type in the Genoa Museum. I have not seen the type of 

 this species. 



