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HALTICINiE. 



Duvivier, in working out Pere Cardon's collection from Mandar, 

 doubtfully referred one specimen to this species, and added that 

 it was 4i mm. long, and yellowish with the tibiae and tarsi black, 

 that the antennae were brownish-yellow at the base but darker 

 towards the apex, that the prothorax was shining and smooth, 

 and the elytra closely and finely punctate. 



350. Lactica bipustulata, Jacoby. 



Lactica bipustulata, Jac, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, xxxii, 1892, 

 p. 919. 



Head, antennae and prothorax shining black ; each elytron 

 black, with a large oval white patch from the middle nearly to 

 the apex, and extending to either margin ; in some cases the 

 elytra are entirely yellowish -white. 



Head with vertex convex, im punctate ; frontal elevations 

 strongly developed, triangular. Antennae extending to halt' the 

 length of the elytra, slender; third and following segments nearly 

 equal. Prothorax transverse, more than twice as broad as long, 

 sides strongly rounded, widened before the middle and with 

 narrow flattened margins, anterior angles slightly produced, 

 posterior angles tuberculiform ; upper surface impunctate, with 

 a distinct transverse furrow, bounded by an impressed longitudinal 

 line on either side, before the base. Elytra very closely and 

 finely punctate. 



Length, 5| mm. 



BuitMA : Karen Mts., xii. (L. Fea). 

 J; Type in the Genoa Museum. I have not seen the type of: this 

 species. 



Genus MNIOPHILA, Stephens. 



Mniophila, Steph., 111. Brit. Ent. iv, 1834, p. 330. 



Genotype, Mniophila muscorum, Koch (Europe). 



The insects belonging to this genus are small, strongly convex 

 and gibbous. Stephens distinguished this from other genera by 

 the singularity of the antennae, of which the eighth segment is 

 minute, as in many fungivorous insects, and the three apical 

 segments form a club. The head is sunk in the prothorax, and 

 the forehead is marked with two deep furrows which cross one 

 another and form an X. The prothorax is broader than long 

 and the elytra are produced into a deflexed point at the apex. 

 The posterior femora are only moderately thickened ; the spur at 

 the apex of the posterior tibiae is wanting or obsolete. The 

 anterior coxal cavities are open behind. The claws are simple 

 and thin. 



These insects are found in moss in damp places. 

 Range. Europe ; Ceylon ? 



