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CmiYSOMELIDJi. 
like the latter, closely covered with yellow pubescence. Legs 
fulvous. Body beneath black, clothed with silvery pubescence. 
Length 3|-4 mm. 
Hub. Southern India; Nllgiris (II. L. Andrew es). 
Closely allied to X. pallidus, but distinguished by the very finely 
and closely punctured thorax, longer antennae, and the entirely 
black underside ; these differences are constant in all the specimens 
obtained by Mr. Andrewes. 
Genus AULEXIS. 
Aulexis, Baly, Journ. Ent. ii, 1863, p. 153 ; id. Trans. Ent. Soc. (3) iv, 
1867, p. 81 ; Chapins, Gen. Coleopt. x, 1874, p. 276; Lefev. Cat. 
Eumolp. 1885, p. 76. 
Type, A. nigrieollis , Baly, from Borneo. 
Range. India ; China ; Malayan Subregion. 
Elongate, subcylindrical ; clothed above and beneath with 
suberect hairs. 
Head exserted, perpendicular ; anterior margin of clypeus 
with two acute flattened teeth, which partly cover the upper 
surface of the labrum ; antennae subfiliform, clothed with coarse 
hairs, basal joint inc-rassate, second half the length of the first, 
subincrassate, third shorter than the fourth, following joints 
rather shorter ; eyes with their inner margins slightly sinuate ; 
Fig. 142 . — Aulexis nigripennis. 
terminal joint of palpi slender, ovate. Thorax subcylindrical in 
front, flattened, more or less excavated on the hinder half of the 
disc, lateral border obsolete, rarely visible at the base, its place 
supplied in the middle by two or more teeth. Elytra rather broader 
than the thorax, parallel-sided. Legs moderate, stout ; femora 
unarmed ; basal joint of tarsi as long as the following two united ; 
claws more or less bifid. Prosternum greatly narrowed between 
the coxae. 
A well-marked genus on account of the toothed clypeus and 
similarly armed sides of the thorax. 
