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HALTICINJE. 



elongate and elub- shaped, second and third almost equal to each 

 other in length, fourth slightly longer. Prothorax broader than 

 long, narrowed in front, front margin almost straight, sides almost 

 straight or slightly rounded, anterior and posterior angles rounded, 

 basal margin gently sinuate ou either side ; surface gently convex, 

 smooth, and closely punctate. Scv.tellum broad, triangular, with 

 apex rounded and surface smooth and impunctate. Elytra hardly 

 broader at base than prothorax ; humerus convex and rounded ; 

 surface closely punctate, or impunctate, or bearing a puncture 

 here and there. Underside: abdominal segments with shallow, 

 small and round impressions or punctures, particularly at the sides. 

 Length, 3| mm. ; breadth, 2 mm. 



Darjeeling. District : Kurseong (P. Braet) • Darjeeling, 7000 

 ft., 10. viii. 1909 (C. Paiva, Indian Museum). United Provinces: 

 Haldwani, Bodair, Kumaon, Sarju Valley, 5000 ft. ; about 46 

 specimens (H. G. Champion). 



Location of type unknown to me; Mons. Severin informs me 

 that there are no examples of this species in the Brussels Museum. 



Duvivier in his original description states that the pronotum 

 and the elytra are closely punctate ; but in the specimen before 

 me in the British Museum, which was obtained from Duvivier's 

 collection through Jacoby, I am unable to find this dense punctua- 

 tion. This specimen has only " Bengal " on the locality-label. 

 At the end of his description Duvivier records " Kurseong 

 (P. Braet)" which should be taken as the type-locality. I have 

 before me another example from Darjeeling in which the punc- 

 tures are very fine, but not obsolete to such an extent as in 

 Duvivier's example. It may be noted that these two examples 

 have the legs black. In other specimens the colour of the legs is 

 brown, with the apices of their several parts generally tinged with 

 pitch-black, and in some cases the tarsi are quite pitch-black. 

 Since there is a gradation in the density of punctuation of the 

 pronotum and elytra and in the coloration of the legs, it is not 

 possible to say with certainty that the two examples mentioned 

 above belong to a distinct species ; more material is necessary to 

 establish the fact, and therefore they are retained, for the time at 

 any rate, in P. apicipennis. 



Genus CHABEJA, Jacoby. 

 Ckabria, Jac, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1887, p. 92. 

 Genotype, Chabria nigroplagiata, Jac. 



Body ovate, rounded, somewhat narrowed behind, very convex. 

 Head broad ; antennae not contiguous, relatively widely separated, 

 but with their bases well away from the eye-margins, filiform, 

 slightly thickened towards the apex. Protlioraoc much broader 

 than long (but not four times as broad as long, as Jacoby states), 

 vith no ante-basal transverse furrow. Scutellum triangular. 

 Elyfra broader than prothorax, convex ; surface smooth, seen 



