SEBJETHE. 



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325. Sebgethe nigritarsis, Jacob y. 



Sebcethe nigritarsis, Jac, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xlvii, 1903, p. 106. 



Body oblong-ovate. Colour reddish-brown above, underside 

 paler ; labruni brown ; antennae (except the three basal segments, 

 which are brown) and tarsi black. 



Head with vertex iin punctate, interocular space with a deeply 

 impressed transverse line, frontal tubercles transverse, inter- 

 antennal carina well developed. Antenna? hardly extending to 

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

 second short and stout; the third, in the three male examples 

 before me, is somewhat stouter than the same segment in the one 

 female example, where it is distinctly but slightly longer than 

 the second, while in the male, perhaps owing to its comparatively 

 stouter shape, it may appear to be nearly equal in length to the 

 second ; the following thicker and about equal to each other. 

 Prothorax about twice as broad as long, sides rounded, anterior 

 angles slightly produced outwards, lateral margins narrowly 

 reflexed : surface sparsely scattered over with minute punctures. 

 Soutellum broad, triangular, with the apex rounded and surface 

 im punctate. Elytra hardly broader at base than prothorax, 

 slightly widened towards the middle, with narrow reflexed 

 margins ; surface minutely and closely punctate. Underside : 

 epipleura of the elytra broad and concave ; the first segment of 

 the front and middle tarsi in the male is enlarged ; first segment 

 of posterior tarsi elongate. 



(Secondary sexual characters are noted under the antennae and 

 tarsi. 



Length, 3-| mm. 



South India. : Anaimalai Hills (type-locality; Andrewes Coll.). 

 Type in the British Museum. 



326. Sebaethe nigricornis, Baly. 



Sebcethe nigricornis, Baly, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1877, p. 164. 



Body ovate, moderately convex. Colour shining dark to pale 

 brown ; the three basal segments of the antennae brown, the 

 fourth partly brown, the rest black. 



Head with vertex impunctate, surface deeply depressed in front 

 of the vertex and behind the frontal tubercles, particularly at 

 each side, frontal tubercles well defined, interantennal carina well 

 developed. Antenna? extending to about tne middle of the 

 elytra ; first segment long and club-shaped, second small, third 

 longer than second, fourth somewhat thicker than, and about 

 equal in length to, the third ; the rest about equal to each other 

 and slightly thickened. Prothorax about three times as long as 

 broad, sides rounded, lateral margins somewhat explanate, reflexed, 

 and produced forwards to a certain extent at the anterior lateral 

 angles ; surface smooth, extremely finely and very sparsely punctate 



