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CHEYSOMELIDuE. 
sides more or less piceous, scales more prominent on the basal 
margin in front of the shoulders. Legs fulvous ; femora with a 
small tooth, anterior and posterior femora strongly thickened. 
Length 4 mm. 
Ilab. Southern India : Nilgiris ; Pondicherry. 
This species appears to be closely allied to II. harmancli , Lefev. 
(Ann. Soc. Ent. Erance, 1893), but in that insect the elytra as 
described are strongly punctured, with grey and white scales and 
round denuded patches intermixed, while the intermediate tibiae 
are emarginate at apex. 
The present species seems somewhat intermediate between 
Demotina and Ilyperaxis , as the anterior and posterior femora 
are less incrassate than is generally the case in the last-named 
genus, but more thickened than in Demotina. 
743. Hyperaxis penicillata, sp. n. 
Euscous : basal joints of antennae fulvous ; elytra with small 
whitish pubescent aud bare fuscous spots near the suture and 
margins. 
Head closely covered with fulvous scales ; antennae with the 
basal seven joints fulvous, rest wanting in the type and only 
specimen. Thorax subquadrate, scarcely broader than long, not 
widened at the sides, disc with an obsolete transverse depression 
in the middle, clothed with scales like the head. Elytra oblong, 
subcylindrical, finely punctured in rather distantly placed rows, 
which are visible only at base ; pubescence partly white and 
fulvous, forming irregular spots, five or six more conspicuous 
fuscous spots are apparent near the suture and can be best seen 
when looked at sideways ; interstices with single stiff short black 
hairs. Anterior and posterior femora incrassate, armed each with a 
stout tooth ; intermediate tibiae distinctly notched at the apex. 
Length 3| mm. 
Ilab. Southern India: Travancore, Wallardi (Coll. Jacoby). 
The mottled appearance given by the grey and fuscous spots oil 
the elytra, and the shape of the thorax with its obscure sulcus 
will help to discriminate this insect. 
744. Hyperaxis mandarensis, sp. n. 
Obscure piceous, clothed with yellow pubescence ; labrum, 
antenuae and legs fulvous ; elytra with au indistinct transverse 
band at the middle, a spot near lateral margins, another at the 
suture near apex and the apex itself, white. 
Head clothed with the usual fulvous scales ; clypeus strongly 
transverse, pubescent, anterior margin nearly straight ; labrum 
fulvous ; antennae fulvous, third and following joints elongate, 
terminal three joints shorter and thicker. Thorax scarcely half 
