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HALTICINJE. 



stronger than those of the pronotum. Underside covered with 

 fine hairs. 



In the male the first segment of the front and middle tarsi is 

 somewhat enlarged. 

 Length, 4| mm. 

 South Iistdia. 



Type in the British Museum. Described from two examples, 

 one of which, with " India " only on the label, was collected by 

 Bo wring. The male example has the brown parts of the body 

 lighter, and the suture light coloured over about half its length. 

 In the other example the pronotum has a fuscous patch and does 

 not look so transverse as in the male. 



309. Sebaethe fimbriata, sp. nov. 



Body broadly ovate, shining. Colour of head and one or two 

 basal segments of the antennae fuscous- brown, the head with an 

 ill-defined smoky patch on the vertex ; pronotum brownish-yellow, 

 with a large ill-defined smoky patch on the disc ; scutellum 

 brownish-yellow with the base piceous ; elytra with the disc 

 black and the margins all round broadly brownish-yellow; the 

 posterior half of the suture is equally brownish-yellow, and this 

 colour is continued on each elytron obliquely as a band which, 

 broadly bifurcating on the post-humeral part of the surface, 

 reaches the basal and the lateral margins, the brauch reaching the 

 lateral margin interrupting the black colour and isolating an 

 oblong black patch on the humerus ; in such cases there are, 

 however, traces of blackish-brown colour indicating that the 

 isolated humeral black patch might have been continuous with 

 the black colour of the disc ; the edges of the black parts, where 

 they meet the brownish-yellow, are pitch-brown ; general colour 

 of underside yellow-brown, the tibiae, tarsi, apices of the posterior 

 femora and sides of the breast smoky black. 



Head with vertex im punctate, frontal tubercles with a fine 

 longitudinal impression between them and separated from the 

 vertex by a transversely impressed line in the interocular space, 

 which is somewhat depressed ; interantennal carina sharply 

 raised. Antennae with first segment long and club-shaped, second 

 small, third much longer than second, fourth somewhat longer 

 than third. Prothorax much longer than broad, sides rounded 

 with their margins somewhat explanate and reflexed, anterior 

 lateral angles somewhat produced and thickened, each of the four 

 angles bearing the usual fine seta ; surface, seen under a high 

 power, more or less closely and finely punctate. Scutellum 

 triangular, with surface smooth and impunciate. Elytra hardly 

 broader at base than prothorax ; the whole surface confusedly, 

 and more or less closely, punctate, the punctures being larger 

 than those on the pronotum. 



