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Genus TEMNASPIS. 
Temnaspis, Lacord. Mon. Phytopli. i, 1845, p. 716 : Chapuis, Gen. 
Coleopt. x, 1874, p. 92. 
Type, T.javana , Guerin, from Java. 
Range. Nepal ; Bengal ; Burma ; the larger islands of the 
Malayan Subregion. Madagascar, Africa. 
Eyes comparatively small, not prominent ; antennae rather long, 
third joint longer than fourth, terminal six trigonal, dentate on 
their inner sides. Thorax narrower than elytra, transversely 
subquadrate, with an anterior and posterior sulcus. Elytra more 
or less pubescent ; posterior femora strongly incrassate, armed 
with one or several strong spines in the male. Metasternum 
strongly raised on each side into a pointed elevation. 
162. Temnaspis bengalensis, Weshv. Trans. Put. Soc. Loud. (3) ii, 
1864, p. 276. 
Eulvous ; clothed with pale yellowish hairs ; the head with the 
posterior margin and a spot anteriorly, brownish. Thorax with 
two large black spots before the middle of the disc and another 
smaller spot near the base. Scutellum fulvous. Elytra strongly 
punctured, the shoulders and a large spot behind the middle of each 
elytron black ; the flanks of the thorax with two black spots ; the 
metasternum entirely and a band at the apex of the abdomen 
black. Legs fulvous, the posterior femora fulvous at apex, black 
at base, armed below with two spines. 
Length 8 mm. 
Hab. Bengal. 
163. Temnaspis nigripennis, Jac. Ann.Mus. Civ. Genova, xxvii, 1889, 
p. 155. 
Elavous ; clothed with stiff black pubescence ; antennae flavous ; 
elytra black ; legs fulvous, posterior femora with an acute spine. 
Head with a small but deep fovea on the vertex, clothed 
with stiff black hairs, labrum and palpi fulvous ; antennae reach to 
the base of the elytra, the basal four joints shining, fulvous, the 
others opaque, flavous, closely pubescent, transverse and dentate 
on their upper margins. Thorax twice as broad as long, narrowed 
in front, the posterior angles oblique, the anterior portion with a 
narrow groove on each side ; the surface sparingly punctured, 
clothed with stiff black pubescence. Scutellum flavous. Elytra 
punctured and pubescent like the thorax. Beneath pale flavous, 
clothed with yellow pubescence, the anterior tarsi black ; meta- 
sternum raised on each side into a conical elevation. 
Length 8-10 mm. 
Hab. Burma : Shwegu. 
Both sexes possess a femoral spine but in the male this is longer 
