OMTOCNEMA. 



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slender and almost equal, seventh to eleventh thickened to form 

 a club. Prothorax scarcely twice as broad as long, sides nearly 

 straight, gradually narrowed in front, anterior angles scarcely 

 oblique, the usual seta placed much below the angles ; surface 

 minutely and closely punctate, interstices finely granulate. 

 Scutellum broader than long, granulate. Elytra moderately 

 strongly punctate-striate, each elytron having eleven rows, in- 

 cluding a scutellar and an extreme marginal row, the punctures 

 very closely placed in the striae, the short sutural row as regular 

 as the others : interstices extremely minutely punctate, this 

 being only visible under a strong lens ; the interstices at the sides 

 slightly costate. Underside: elytral epipleura impunclate; 

 posterior tibiae strongly emarginate beyond the middle, with a long 

 spine ; first segment of the hind tarsi as long as the following- 

 segments together. 

 Length, 1| mm. 



Bombay : Belgaum ^Andrewes Coll.). 



Type in the British Museum. Some of the specimens are 

 labelled " Ch. minuta " and some " Ch. indica, Weise," but the 

 latter labels are not in Weise's handwriting and all the examples 

 appear to have been determined by Jacoby. I am unable to trace 

 any published species called Ch. indica, Weise, and it seems to be 

 merely a manuscript name. 



153. Chaetocnema longipunctata, sp. no v. 



Body ovate. Colour black ; antennae, tibiae and tarsi brown ; 

 the five or six apical segments of the antennae and the femora 

 piceous, the hind femora being of a deeper shade. 



Head impunctate, but the whole surface is finely granulate ; 

 the oblique channels on the inner side of the eyes very deep and 

 broad, continued to the interantennal space, the short transverse 

 furrow just above the roots of the antennae equally deep and ter- 

 minated on each side by the oblique channels. Antennae extending 

 to a certain distance beyond the humerus ; first two segments as 

 stated under the genus, third to sixth more slender, more or less 

 nearly equal, the rest somewhat thickened. Prothorax broader 

 than long, sides almost straight ; surface convex, very finely 

 granulose, and covered with fine punctures, which are more or less 

 elongate, particularly those near the base. Scutellum broad, with 

 the apex broadly rounded ; surface very finely granulose. Elytra 

 hardly broader at base than prothorax, regularly punctate-striate, 

 the punctures being much larger than those of the pronotum ; on 

 each elytron there are eleven rows of punctures, including a short 

 scutellar row' and an extreme marginal row 7 : interstices very finely 

 punctate, some of them tending to be costate towards the apex ; 

 surface not granulose. Underside : characters as under the genus. 



Length, 2 mm. 



Ceylon : Halupahani, Haldummulla. 



Type in the British Museum. Described from one example. 



