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the third ; three lower joints nigro-piceous, stained with aeneous, the rest black. Thorax 
broader than long; sides converging from the middle towards the base ; the anterior angles 
slightly produced, obtuse, the hinder ones rounded, armed with a very small acute tooth ; 
disc moderately convex, very minutely punctured, the punctures only visible under a very 
strong lens. Scutellum trigonate. Elytra broader than the thorax, parallel, finely but not 
closely punctured, the interspaces obsoletely wrinkled. 
Hab . — Murree. 
Macrima, n. gen. 
Baly, Cist. Eat. ii, 1875 — 82, p. 377. 
Corpus anguste oblongum, convexum. Caput exsertum ; antennis flif ormibus, articulo 
primo duobus sequentibus conjunctis cequali, liis br embus, longitudine fere cequalibus ; oculis 
sub -rotunda tis, prominentibus ; encarpis medio contiguis ; carina obsoleta ; palpis maxillaribus 
articvlis duobus ultimis conjunctim anguste ovatis, ultimo apice acuto. Thorax transversus , 
disco leviter excavatus. Scutellum trigonatum. Elytra thorace latiora, oblonga, confuse 
punctata , limbo infexo fere integro, concavo. Pedes mediocres, coxis anticis elevatis, obtri- 
gonatis , contiguis; tibiis apice mucronatis ; tarsis posticis articulo primo tribus sequentibus 
fere eequilongo ; unguiculis appendiculatis. Prosternum medio angustissinium ; acetabulis 
anticis integris ; episternis posticis a basi ad apicem angmtatis. Type, Macrima armata. 
Macrima may be separated from Aulacophora, which genus it strongly resembles in 
outward form, by the closed anterior acetabula and by the appendiculated claws. 
16. — Macrima armata. 
Baly, Cist. Ent. ii, 1875—82, p. 377. 
Anguste oblonga, convexa, pallide flava, subnitida, pectore, abdominis segmentis anticis 
tribus basi, scutelloque nigris ; thorace tenuiter punctato, utrinque leviter excavato ; elytris 
distincte subcrebre punctatis, punctis pallide fuscis , utrisque super marginem basalem nigro 
maculatis. 
Long. 3^ lin. 
S . Facie tridentata, dente intermedio compresso, nigro, apice dejlexo ; clypeo utrinque ad 
apicem foveolato. 
? . Facie tridenlatd, dente intermedio non compresso, apice acuto. 
Head exserted ; vertex smooth, impunctate ; face excavated between the eyes, clothed 
with hairs, tridentate, the middle tooth compressed and deflexed in the s , conical in the $ ; 
clypeus transverse, impressed at the apex on either side in the 6 with a deep fovea ; apex 
of jaws nigro-piceous ; antennae slender, clothed with coarse suberect hairs, second and third 
joints nearly equal in the S , the third one-half longer than the second in the 9 . Thorax 
about three times as broad as long ; sides parallel and slightly sinuate behind the middle, 
obliquely converging from the middle to the apex, the anterior angles slightly produced 
