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HALTICINJE. 



Underside sparsely covered with whitish hairs. The posterior 

 tibia in the female specimen from Lahul is without the apical 

 spine ; in the male the spine is present, but not prominent in the 

 type-specimen. First segment of posterior tarsi about half the 

 length of the corresponding tibia and about equal to the following 

 segments together. 



Length of male, 2^ mm. ; of female, 3 mm. 



Punjab : Lahul * (type-locality), 19. viii. 1922 {0. H. Walters). 

 United Provinces : Kumaon, Sarju Valley, 5000 ft. ; Almora, 

 7000-9000 ft., vi. 1917 ; JNaini Tal, vii. 1923 (all H. G. Champion). 

 Darjeuling : (xopaldhara (Stevens). 



Type in the British Museum. 



249. Longitarsus nigripennis, Motschuhhy. 



Teinodactila nigripennis, Motsch., Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. xxxix, 1866, 

 part 1, no. 2, p. 418. 



The species described below is assumed to be the same as 

 Motschulsky's L. nigripennis, because it agrees with his descrip- 

 tion of the coloration and, so far, this is the only species before 

 me which lias this particular combination of colours. The follow- 

 ing: is a translation of Motschulskv's original description in French, 

 which appears immediately after his description of Longitarsus 

 undulatovittatus from Ceylon (see p. 361) : — 



" A closely related but smaller species from the continent of 

 India, T. nigripennis, Motsch., is very remarkable for its colora- 

 tion, having the head and pronotum testaceous and the elytra 

 black." 



I have adopted this name because Dr. Gr. A. K. Marshall has 

 already applied it to this particular insect from South India, 

 where it is a pest of cultivated plants, and also because it has 

 already been used in this connexion in current literature. 



Body oblong, broad. Head, antennas, prothorax, underside 

 and legs brown ; elytra shining black: posterior femora shining 

 brownish-black ; underside of a deeper shade of brown ; antennas 

 and legs of a lighter shade ; scutellum dark brown. 



Head with vertex impunctate, frontal tubercles not prominent, 

 interantennal space raised and with a sharp central longitudinal 

 ridge, which is continued to the wedge-shaped clypeus. Antennas 

 extending to about the middle of the elytra; first segment long 

 and club-shaped, second shorter, third longer and thinner than 

 second, fourth slightly shorter than third, fifth to eighth more or 

 less nearly equal, ninth, tenth and eleventh somewhat shorter 

 and slightly thickened. Prothorax broader than long, posterior 

 margin with a not very strong lobe in the middle, anterior lateral 

 angles oblique, sides straight, the fine setae long and prominent, 

 at least at the posterior lateral angles in the two specimens before 

 me; surface somewhat convex, almost impunctate but for a few 



* A locality in the hills, in the Jullundur [Jalandhar] Division. 



