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HALTICINjE. 



Larger insects (4f mm. long), brown 

 without the reddish tint; tarsi not 

 black, they may be somewhat piceous 

 but are generally brown ; first segment 

 of front and middle tarsi not dilated 

 in the male 



S. nigricornis, Baly, 



[p. 403. 



301. Sebaethe recticollis, Jacoby. 



Sebcethe recticollis, Jac, Ann. Mas. Civ. Genova, xxxii, 1892, 

 p. 924. 



Oblong-ovate. Shining metallic dark blue ; antennae black ; 

 labrum piceous. 



Head with vertex impunctate and frontal elevations not strongly- 

 developed ; the clypeus has the shape of a strongly elevated 

 triangular ridge ; labrum with a few deep punctures ; maxillary- 

 palpi with penultimate segment strongly incrassate. Antennae 

 hardly extending to the middle of the elytra, opaque, pubescent, 

 the first segment less so, long and somewhat thickened at the 

 apex, second small, third somewhat longer than second, fourth 

 about equal to third, the rest about equal to each other. Prothorax 

 scarcely twice as broad as long, somewhat narrowed in front, sides 

 narrowly margined, anterior lateral angles oblique, expanded and 

 with a seta-bearing pore, posterior acute and each with a fine 

 seta ; surface gently convex:, finely and not very closely punctate. 

 Scutellum triangular with apex rounded; smooth, shining, im- 

 punctate. Elytra broader at base than prothorax, finely and not 

 closely punctate, the punctures being similar to those of th 

 pronotum. Underside: posterior tibiae channelled, with a spine 

 at the apex ; first segment of the posterior tarsi equal in length 

 to the two following together. 



Length, 3| mm. 



Burma : Karen Mts., Asciuii-Grhecu, 1400-1500 metres 

 (= ca. 4590-4920 ft,), iii-iv. 1888 (Fea). 

 Type in the Genoa Museum. 



There are two examples in the British Museum bearing Fea's 

 printed labels with the above note of locality, and one of these is 

 marked in such a way that I think it should be regarded as 

 a cotype. 



302. Sebaethe nila *, sp. nov. 



Body obiong-ovate. Colour above bright metallic blue (pro- 

 notum not so deep blue as elytra) ; underside blackish ; head 

 (except the vertex, which shares the colour of the prothorax), the 

 three basal segments of the antennas, the legs (except the tarsi, 

 which are blackish), and the posterior femora (except the apex, 

 which is blackish), brown; the eight apical segments of the antennae 

 blackish ; scutellum black. 



* Sanskrit, " blue." 



