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HALTICLN^;. 



impunctate. Elytra somewhat broader at base than prothorax, 

 regularly punctate-striate. but the series nearer the suture are 

 not perfectly straight ; interstices costate ; each elytron has ten 

 distinct rows of punctures, including an extreme marginal row ; 

 round the scutellum a triangular area is confusedly punctate ; 

 the elytral punctures are deep and large. Underside very sparsely 

 covered with fine hairs. 

 Length, 2| mm. 



Madras : Yizagapatam District, Chipurupalle (R. S. Patuck). 

 Type in the British Museum. Described from two examples. 



149. Chaetocnema bretinghami, Baly. 



Chcetocnema bretinghami, Balv, Trans. Eut. Soc. Lond. 1877, 

 p. 170. 



Body ovate, narrowed behind. Colour bright coppery- or brassy - 

 green ; legs, except the posterior femora, yellow-brown ; the six 

 basal segments of the antennae yellow-brown, the rest of these 

 organs dilute piceous. 



Head with vertex more or less convex, strongly punctate. 

 Antennae slender, half the length of the body ; third to sixth 

 segments more slender than the others and more or less nearly 

 equal, the rest of the segments somewhat thickened. Prothorax 

 about twice as broad at the base as long, sides rounded, con- 

 verging from base to front, posterior lateral corners nearly right 

 angles, anterior angles thickened ; surface convex, subcylindrical 

 in front, strongly and closely punctate, the punctures being 

 more distant in the middle. Scutellum broader than long, half- 

 round. Elytra ovate, attenuated towards the apex; strongly and 

 deeply punctate-striate, each elytron having eleven longitudinal 

 rows, including a short scutellar and an extreme marginal row ; 

 along the scutellar row there are a few additional punctures ; 

 interstices costate, more strongly so at the apex and the sides; 

 the surface of the raised interstices is very finely reticulate, as can 

 be seen under a high power. Underside punctate. 



Length, 2| mm. 



India {Bretingham). Bihar: Pusa, on grass, 24. i. 190G 

 (R. P. V.). 



Type in the British Museum. 



150. Chaetocnema singala *, sp. no v. 



Ovate. Colour greenish with a slight bronzy tinge ; the six 

 basal segments of the antennas, tibiae and tarsi, brown ; the rest 

 of the antennal segments and the femora piceous, the posterior 

 femora more strongly so. 



Head coarsely and closely punctate, without any elevations at 

 all ; the transverse impressed line, just above the roots of the 



* Sanskrit, " Ceylon." 



