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HALTICINJE 



154. Chsetocnema kanika *, sp. no v. 



Body ovate. Colour black; antennae and legs dark brown, the 

 posterior femora sometimes of a deeper shade. 



Head finely granulate and without punctures ; on each side 

 close to the eye there is a channel, which is not oblique ; these 

 channels give the front the appearance of being slightly raised ; 

 frontal elevations and carina absent. Antennae extending to a 

 little distance beyond the humeral callus ; first two segments as 

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

 nearly equal, the rest somewhat thicker. Prothorax broader than 

 long, sides almost straight ; surface convex, finely granulose, 

 closely punctate, the punctures round and not elongate as in Oh. 

 longipunctatus. Seutellum small, triangular with the apex broadly 

 rounded ; surface impunctate. Elytra slightly broader at base 

 than prothorax, regularly punctate- striate, each elytron having 

 eleven rows, including a short scutellar row and an extreme mar- 

 ginal row ; interstices very finely and minutely punctate, some of 

 them tending to be costate near the apex. Underside : characters 

 as stated under the genus. 



Length, 2 mm. 



? Calcutta. 



Type in the Indian Museum. 



Described from two examples in the Indian Museum. The 

 labels on these have simply the word "Calcutta", but it is 

 doubtful whether the locality at which they were captured is 

 actually Calcutta. 



155. Chsetocnema cognata, Baly. 



Chcetocnema cognata, Baly, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1877, p. 168. 

 Chcetocnema squarrosa, Baly, Trans. Ent Soc. Lond. 1877, p. 169. 



Body ovate. Shining coppery- or brassy-green; the five or six 

 basal segments of the antennae and the legs brown, the rest of the 

 antennal segments and the posterior femora pitchy, but with a 

 metallic tinge ; labrum shining black. 



Head with vertex somewhat convex, the whole surface finely 

 granulose and deeply but not very closely punctate; frontal ele- 

 vations absent, as is usual in this genus. Antennae less than, or 

 about half of, the length of the body ; third to sixth segments 

 slender, the following segments somewhat thickened. Prothorax 

 about twice as broad as long, sides straight but oblique, rounded 

 and converging in front, anterior angles thickened, posterior 

 widely rounded ; surface transversely convex, minutely granulose, 

 distinctly but not very closely punctate, the punctures being closer 

 at the sides than in the middle. Seutellum small, triangular and 

 impunctate. Elytra broadly ovate, somewhat narrowed towards 

 the apex, punctate-striate, each elytron having eleven regular 



Sanskrit, conveying the sense of minuteness. 



