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HALTICINjE. 



scutellar row and an extreme marginal row ; inside the scutellar 

 row there may be some additional punctures ; surface round the 

 scutellum depressed and more or less wrinkled, interstices not 

 smooth, indistinctly reticulate and granulate. Underside not very 

 closely punctate and sparsely covered with silvery hairs. 

 Length, 2\ mm. 



"United Provinces; N. Kumaon, Laptel, 15,000 ft. G. 

 Champion). 



Type in the British Museum. Described from four examples. 



157. Chaetocnema belli, Jacoby. 



Chmtocnema belli, Jac, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg\ xlviii, 1904, p. 392. 



Body ovate, pointed behind. Colour dark aeneous, with much 

 less greenish tint than in some species ; the four basal segments 

 of the antennae and the legs are yellow, the seven apical segments 

 of the antennae dilute pitchy ; posterior femora pitchy. 



Fig. 80. — Chatornema belli, Jac. 



Head with vertex finel} r and rather closely punctate, with a very 

 narrow oblique supra-ocular impression on either side. Antennae 

 scarcely extending to the middle of the elytra, slender; second 

 segment almost equal to the third, third to sixth slender and 



