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196. Podagrica cardoni, Jacoby. 



Nisotra cardoni, Jac, Mem. Soc. Ent. Belg. vii, 1900, p. 125. 



Shining testaceous ; the four basal segments of the antennae 

 testaceous ; the seven terminal segments, the breast and abdomen 

 black ; last abdominal sternite fulvous at the apex ; mandibles 

 black at the apex. 



Head with vertex convex and impunctate, clypeus separated by 

 oblique impressed lines, face broad, impunctate. Antennae rather 

 robust, reaching a little distance beyond the base of the pronotum ; 

 first segment long and club-shaped, second shorter but thicker 

 than third, which is more slender und almost equal to the fourth 

 in length ; from the fifth to the end the segments become slightly 

 thicker and more hairy. Proihorax broader than long, sides 

 straight at the base, slightly rounded at the middle, anterior angles 

 thickened, each of the anterior and posterior angles having a seta- 

 bearing pore; surface, seen under a high power, very minutely 

 punctate; at each side, perpendicular to the basal margin (not the 

 anterior margin, as Jacoby incorrectly writes), are two longi- 

 tudinal impressions, close to each other; perpendicular to the 

 anterior margin, at each side, is a long, rather curved, longitudinal 

 impression. Scutellum triangular with apex rounded and surface 

 impunctate. Elytra convex, not much rounded at apex, broader 

 .at base than prothorax, punctate-striate ; on each elytron the 

 punctuation is as follows : first, a double scuteliar row of punctures, 

 then follow eight double rows, after that there is a single row, 

 the interstice next to it being very broad at the base, and, finally, 

 there is the extreme marginal row; the punctures of the double 

 rows are irregularly arranged, and the interstices towards the 

 lateral margin are very slightly convex; humeri convex and 

 impunctate. Underside: legs robust ; prosternum elongate, with 

 a lateral ridge ; abdominal sternites finely punctate and sparsely 

 hairy. 



Length, 4 mm. 



Bengal: Mandar (Car don). 



Type in the British Museum. 



197. Podagrica badia, Harold. 



Nisotra badia, Har., Col. Hefte, xvi, 1876, p. 230. 



Body ovate, rather narrowed towards the apex. Colour entirely 

 brown, except the seven apical joints of the antennae, the apices 

 of the tibiae, and the tarsi, which are black or piceous. 



Head : vertex not very convex, impunctate, limited by two 

 oblique impressed lines ; eyes convex ; interantennal space without 

 any ridge. Antennae long, but somewhat shorter than the length 

 of the body ; first segment long and club-shaped, second, third, 

 and fourth almost equal in length, fifth slightly longer and thicker 

 than each of the preceding three segments, sixth and each of the 

 following equal to the fifth, the last segment pointed. Protliorax 



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