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HALTlCrPLE. 



Type in the British Museum. 



Described from one example. The general build, shape and 

 structure of the elytra give it a characteristic appearance and, 

 when lying on its side, the insect is not unlike a flea. It is a 

 very interesting species. 



255. Longitarsus fumidus, sp. no v. 



Body ovate, narrowed at the base, somewhat broadened in the 

 middle and then narrowed behind ; wingless. General colour 

 brown ; elytra almost wholly smoky, except a little portion at the 

 apex and a part at the base ; the margin is brown, bat the smoky 

 colour suffuses its middle portion to a certain extent; front of 

 the head and apices of the posterior femora also smoky or black. 



Head with vertex impunctate, frontal elevations almost obsolete, 

 interantennal carina short. Antennas nearly as long as the body ; 

 first segment long and club-shaped, second much smaller and 

 distinctly shorter than third, fourth slightly longer than third; 

 the following segments elongate, more or less nearly equal, the 

 four apical segments somewhat thicker. Prothorax broader than 

 long, slightly narrowed at base, sides feebly rounded; surface 

 gently convex, feebly and finely punctate. Scutellum triangular 

 with the apex broadly rounded, broader than long, with surface 

 finely granulate. Elytra not broader at base than prothorax ; 

 surface confusedly and distinctly punctate. Underside: the 

 posterior tibiae, as usual in the genus, long, with the spinules on 

 the external edge, and ending in a spine ; first segment of the 

 posterior tarsi half the length of the corresponding tibia. 



Length, 2| mm. 



Nilgiri Hills (G. F. Hampson). 



Type in the British Museum. Described from one example. 



256. Longitarsus nigronotatus, Jacoby. 



Longitarsus nigronotatus, Jac, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xl, 1896, p. 259. 



Body oblong. Colour pale brown ; antennae, except the four 

 basal segments, piceous ; a rather large round spot in the middle 

 of the elytra, their apices and the suture behind, black ; underside 

 generally piceous, in some parts lighter than in others ; apices 

 of posterior femora blackish. 



Read impunctate, frontal elevations small, nearly joined to the 

 clypeus, which is strongly convex and impunctate; eyes large, 

 the space dividing them narrower than their diameter. Antennas 

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

 and club-shaped, second half as Jong as first, thicker than, and 

 about equal in length to, third, third and fourth small and equal ; 

 the following segments very slightly thickened and somewhat 

 longer. Prothorax broader than long, sides straight, anterior 



