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CHItY SOMELIDtE. 
specimens a broad fuscous subsutural baud extends along each 
elytron near to apex, in others this is absent. 
Length 4-4 1 mm. 
Hah. Malabar : Malie (Coll. Jacoby). 
Whether this species is really specifically distinct from the 
preceding or only a form of it is doubtful, but the elytra are quite 
differently marked. It is also uncertain whether the subsutural 
fuscous band of regular shape, present in the two specimens 
before me, is due to the absence of hairs caused accidentally or 
is normal. 
747. Hyperaxis grisea, sp. n. 
Blackish, covered with grey scale-like pubescence ; antennae, 
base of femora and the tibiae more or less fulvous. 
Head closely covered with grey scales ; elypeus not separated 
from the face, transverse, anterior margin dark fulvous, concave- 
emarginate ; labrum fulvous ; antennae extending to the middle 
of the elytra, basal joints slender, fulvous, terminal joints shorter 
and thicker, slightly darkened, third joint very slightly longer than 
the fourth, terminal four rather strongly thickened. Thorax 
nearly twice as broad as long, lateral margins strongly rounded 
and widened at the middle, strongly obliquely narrowed anteriorly, 
entire surface covered with short greyscales. Scute! lum similarly 
clothed, broad, sides rounded. Elytra wider at the base than the 
thorax, oblong, parallel-sided, finely punctured in extremely close 
rows, clothed with scales like the thorax and single bristle-like 
short fulvous hairs (only seen when the specimen is held sideways). 
Eemora thickened, the middle femora each with a very short tooth ; 
apex of the intermediate and posterior tibhe emarginate, the 
emargination very slight ; daws bifid. Prosternum elongate ; 
anterior margin of thoracic episternum concave, not separated 
from the prosternum by grooves. 
Length 3 mm. 
Hob. Southern India: Trichinopoly (Coll. Jacoby). 
Smaller that H. variegatus , Jac., the anterior and posterior 
femora although distinctly thicker than the intermediate, are 
much less so than in the allied species and their dental armature 
is smaller. 
Genus PSEUDOMETAXIS. 
Pseudometaxis, Jac. Mem. Soc. JEnt. Bely, vii, 1900, p. 101. 
Type, P. serraticollis , .Jac., from Burma. 
Range. Burma. 
Subquadrate-ovate : densely clothed with short scales and 
sparingly with short erect hairs ; antennae filiform. Thorax 
broader than long, distinctly serrately margined. Legs rather long ; 
