LONGTTARSUS. 



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the following segments together (including the claw-segment) ; 

 spine at the apex of the posterior tibiae short and stout. 

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



Calcutta (type-locality). Bihar : Pusa, " on grass," 4. ii. 1906, 

 16. ix. 1910 (Pusa Coll.). United Provinces: Kumaon, Hald- 

 wani Division {H. G. Champion). Ceylon : Colombo, " on coast 

 level," 7-27. iv. 1882 (G. Lewis). 



Type in the British Museum. There are in the Indian 

 Museum, Calcutta, specimens which were determined at the time 

 when Jacob y drew up the original description. 



270. Longitarsu3 gola *, sp. nov. 



Body oblong, broad. Colour pale brownish-yellow ; sides of 

 breast and the posterior femora deep brown; five or six apical 

 segments of antennae piceous ; scutellum rather darker than the 

 surrounding parts. 



Head with vertex impunctate, frontal elevations obsolete, inter- 

 antennal space raised. Antennae extending to about the middle 

 of the elytra; first segment long and club-shaped, second much 

 shorter than first, somewhat thicker than, and about equal in 

 length to, third, fourth distinctly longer than third ; the following 

 segments about equal, the last three somewhat thickened, and the 

 last pointed. Prothoracc broader than long, sides rounded, anterior 

 lateral angles thickened ; surface gently rounded, distinctly, finely 

 and somewhat closely punctate. Scutellum triangular with apex 

 rounded, surface smooth and impunctate. Elytra hardly broader 

 at base than prothorax, then somewhat broadening behind the 

 base and slightly narrowing again towards the apex ; surface 

 distinctly, finely and confusedly punctate. Underside : posterior 

 tibiae long, broadened at the apex, which is armed with a long 

 spine, their outer edge with a series of spinules arranged in the 

 usual way ; first segment of posterior tarsi half the length of the 

 corresponding tibia. 



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



United Provinces : Kumaon, W. Almora Division, iii. 1917 

 (H. G. Champion). 



Type in the British Museum. Described from one example. 



271. Longitarsus ochraceicornis, sp. nov. 



Body oblong, the elytra somewhat widened in the middle and 

 then narrowing a little behind. Colour dirty brown ; the three 

 basal and the four apical segments of the antennae light brown, 

 the four intermediate segments (fourth to seventh) darker ; the 

 contrasting colours of the segments stand out conspicuously and 

 give the insect a characteristic appearance ; posterior femora 

 somewhat darker brown. 



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* Sanskrit, " round." 



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