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HALTICINJE. 



broader than long, sides slightly rounded at the middle and 

 narrowed in front ; at the anterior angles the margin is expanded, 

 ending in an acute point; each of the anterior and posterior 

 angles bears a seta situated in a pore ; basal margin slightly 

 sinuate; surface uniformly convex and, seen under a high power, 

 extremely minutely punctate ; perpendicular to the anterior 

 margin, on either side, is a longitudinal impression, but per- 

 pendicular to the posterior margin there is no corresponding 

 impression. Scuiellum triangular, with apex not very rounded 

 arid surface, seen under a high power, shagreened. Elytra 

 slightly broader at base than prothorax; on each elytron the 

 arrangement of the rows of punctures is as in P. cardoni, but the 

 punctures are so feeble as to be almost indistinguishable ; last 

 interspace broad at base, as in P. cardoni. Underside shining;: 

 abdominal sternites thickly punctate. The males are smaller 

 than the females and have the first segment of all the tarsi much 

 enlarged. 



Length, 3|-4| mm. 



Ceylon : (Nietner) : 1872 (Thwaites); Kandy, vi. 1900 (G. E. 

 Bryant), and 1546-1727 ft., 17-23. ii. 1882 (G. Lewis); Balan- 

 goda, 1776 ft., 3-16. iii. 1882 (£. Lewis). 



Type possibly in Mons. Oberthiir's collection. There are many 

 specimens in the British Museum. 



198. Podagrica semicserulea, Jacoby. 



Nisotra semicarulea, Jac. 7 Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xlvii, 1903, p. 109. 



Colour above bluish, in some cases much diluted by brown - r 

 elytra and pronotum usually, but not always, concolorous ; under- 

 side and antennas fulvous ; scutellum blackish. 



Head rather long, impunctate, impressed with an oblique line 

 above the eyes, frontal tubercles absent. Antennae with basal 

 segment long and club-shaped, second small, nearly one-half the 

 length of the first, the third and the two following segments 

 equal ; from the sixth to the last the segments are slightly 

 thickened. Prothorax twice as broad as long, sides rounded before 

 the middle ; each of the anterior angles has a seta-bearing pore ; 

 on each side, from the front margin, rises a deep, short, incurved 

 and perpendicular impression, within which are three deep pits; 

 surface very finely and rather closely punctate ; posterior margin 

 sinuate at each side. Scutellum triangular, smooth and impunctate. 

 Elytra broader at base than prothorax, narrowed but rounded at 

 apex, punctate in closely approximated double or treble rows ; the 

 rows are more or less confused, but follow the general plan stated 

 in the description of P. cardoni. Underside: tarsal segments 

 feeble, claws appendiculate. 



Length, 4 mm. 



Nilgiri Hills. 



Type in the British Museum. 



