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HALTICINjE. 



first segment elongate and club-shaped, the following two seg- 

 ments snorter and equal, fourth and fifth somewhat shorter still 

 arid equal, sixth to eleventh dilated and subquadrafe, the last 

 more or less elongate -ovate. Prothorax about two and a half 

 times as broad as long, not much narrowed in front, sides 

 rounded, with very narrow reflexed margins, anterior lateral angles 

 thickened, posterior margin Insinuate; surface very closely and 

 finely punctate, the lateral parts a little more distantly so. Scu- 

 tellum very small, triangular, impunctate. Elytra strongly convex, 

 closely punctate, with more or less distinct longitudinal series 

 amidst confused punctures ; these series occur more on the outer 

 half of each elytron than on the inner, while along the extreme 

 margin is a deeply impressed series, which forms the outer border 

 of a broad impunctate lateral space ; the elytral punctuation is 

 composed of a mixture of stronger and finer punctures. Underside 

 finely pubescent. 



Length, 3-3| mm. 



Bengal : Mandar. 



Type in the British Museum. 



243. Sphaeroderma varipes, Jacoby. 



Sphairoderma varipes, Jac, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, xxvii, 1889, 

 p. 193. 



Eucycla varipes, Jac, Notes Leyd. Mus. vi, 1884, p. 210. 



Body ovate, strongly convex. Colour shining dark brown ; the 

 four or five apical segments of the antennas and the breast are 

 pitch-black. In one variety the prothorax and elytra are nearly 

 black. 



Head with vertex impunctate; eyes large; frontal tubercles 

 distinct but not much raised, separated lrom the vertex by two 

 oblique impressed lines, which meet in the middle ; interantennal 

 carina well developed. Antennas extending to a little distance 

 beyond the base of the pronotum ; first segment long and club- 

 shaped, second about equal in length to, but thicker than, third ; 

 from the third to the seventh the segments are comparatively 

 thinner and about equal in length, eighth to eleventh thickened. 

 Prothorax much broader than long, somewhat narrowed in front, 

 sides very slightly rounded, with narrow margins, anterior lateral 

 angles thickened, in some cases more produced than in others 

 (this difference was regarded by Jacoby as a secondary sexual 

 character), each of the four angles bearing a fine seta, posterior 

 margin sinuate at each side, with a lobe in the middle: surface 

 closely and uniformly punctate. Scutellvm small, triangular, im- 

 punctate. Elytra not broader at base than prothorax, each elytron 

 has three longitudinal impunctate spaces on the disc, converging 

 towards the apex, each space being enclosed between two regular 

 rows of punctures ; the areas between these spaces, and that 

 between the suture and the first space, are more or less confusedly 

 .and closely punctate ; while along the lateral margin there is a 



