LONGITARSUS. 



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posterior tibiae somewhat curved, with the usual spicules ou the 

 outer edge, with a spine at the apex ; the whole of each posterior 

 tarsus is just a little shorter than the corresponding tibia, with 

 the first tarsal segment about half the length of the tibia. 

 Length, a little less than 2 mm. 



United Provinces: Kumaon, W. Almora (H. G. Champion). 

 Type'm the British Museum. Described from four examples. 



277. Longitarsus aim *, sp. no v. 



Body small, ovate, narrowed at the base of the prothorax and 

 elytra, then broadened behind; wingless. Colour dirty light 

 brown ; abdominal sternites and posterior femora blackish. 



Head with vertex impunctate, frontal elevations and inter- 

 antennal carina not strongly developed. Antennas as long as the 

 body; first segment long and thickened, second and third about 

 equal in length, but the second is thicker, fourth longer than 

 third ; the following segments are elongate and about equal. 

 Prothorax somewhat broader than long, slightly narrowed at the 

 base, sides almost straight ; surface gently convex and impunctate. 

 Scutellum small, triangular, with apex broadly rounded, impunctate. 

 Elytra narrowed and not broader than the prothorax at the base ; 

 surface minutely and distinctly, but confusedly, punctate, the 

 punctures not very close. Underside : characters of posterior 

 tibiae and tarsi as usual in the genus. 



Length, lg-lf mm. 



Ceylon: Peradeniya, 3. ix. 1914 {A. Rutherford). 



Type in the British Museum. Described from four examples. 



The following eight species of Motschulsky are enumerated 

 here, but not included in the key on pp. 335-357. In no case 

 have the types been examined, and these are possibly lost. The 

 descriptions are freely translated from the originals in Latin or, 

 in some cases, French : — 



Longitarsus sutura nigra, Motschulsky. 



Teinodactila sutura nigra, Motsch., Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. xxxix, 1866, 

 part 1, no. 2, p. 416. 



In form and colour resembling T. nigrocilla, but more than 

 twice as large. Elong ite-ovate, convex, shining ; reddish- 

 testaceous, with the antennae (their bases excepted), eyes, 

 scutellum, suture broadly, margins of the elytra, and underside, 

 black ; knees and posterior tibiae black ; all the tarsi mfuscated. 



Length, 1| lin.; breadth, | lin. 



Ceylon: mountains of Nuwara Eliya. 



* Sanskrit, " minute," " very small. ' 



