412 HALTICINiE. 



a high power the surface is extremely minutely and sparsely 

 punctate, with a feeble transverse furrow near the base, which 

 furrow is bounded at the sides by a very short and shallow perpen- 

 dicular impression. Scutellum triangular, smooth, impunctate. 

 Elytra broader at base than prothorax, convex, closely and finely 



Fig. 136. — Hermceophaga indica, Jac. 



punctate, the punctuation here and there arranged in irregular 

 rows. Underside : posterior tibiae with a small spine at the apex, 

 the others unarmed. 

 Length, 2 mm. 



Nilgiei Hills (Andrewes Coll.). 

 Type in the British Museum. 



Genus PHYGASIA, Baly. 

 Phyyasia, Baly, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1876, p. 445. 

 Genotype, Phygasia ornata^ Baly. 



Body oblong-ovate or ovate, moderately convex. Head mod- 

 erately exserted ; eyes comparatively small ; vertex convex, 

 generally impunctate, frontal tubercles and interantennal carina 

 well developed. Antennae comparatively short, extending not 

 much beyond the middle of the elytra, in some cases shorter, 

 sometimes thinner at the apex and more or less stout at the 

 middle (this is probably a secondary sexual character of the 

 male) ; first segment chickened, second always small and rounded, 



