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truncated at tip : the eyes larger, more approximate beneath, and very coarsely faceted : the 
prothorax not curvedly narrowed to the front, and decidedly narrower at base than the base 
of the elytra. 
Hypocistela tenuipes. 
Pale testaceous, legs yellow, antennae palish brown, eyes and tips of mandibles black, 
head fuscous behind. The entire upper surface is uniformly and very minutely punctulate 
and rugulose, and finely pubescent : elytra delicately striated : flanks of prothorax, breast, 
and abdomen, clouded with fuscous. 
Length 3^ lines. 
Kogyar. 
Family— LAGRIIDJS. 
Sub-Family — LA GBIINAS . 
Lageia indicola. 
Eorm, size, and colour of L. glabrata, Oliv. The eyes are silvery grey with an oblique 
fuscous spot above : antennae moderately stout, filiform, last joint elongate, straight, cylin- 
drical, and pointed at apex : prothorax broader at base than at apex, very feebly rounded at 
the sides, somewhat shining piceous, the front and hind margins reddish ; a broad transverse 
impression before the base ; feebly punctate, and, together with the head, clothed with a 
longish fuscous pilosity : elytra delicately striated, distinctly uniformly punctured, and irregu- 
larly transversely wrinkled : underside, femora, and antennae, pitchy brown : tibiae and tarsi 
paler. 
Length 4^ lines. 
Murree. 
Family — MELOIDJB. 
Sub-Family — MEL GINAS . 
Meloe sekvtjlus. 
Small, black, with a faint bluish tinge on the elytra: antennae shining black, compact, 
a little thickened towards the apex, joints obconic, 5-6-7 shorter than 3-4 or than 8-10, 
10 somewhat cylindric, 11 elongate and tapering to the apex : head large, convex, distinctly 
and rather uniformly, but not closely, punctured: prothorax rather small, transverse, 
quadrate, all the angles rounded, base arcuately emarginate, punctured like the head, and 
with a distinct foveate depression at each side the disc : elytra faintly reticulately rugulose, 
somewhat scrobitulate on the epipleurse ; dehiscent from one-third their length, and some- 
what gradually curvedly contracted to the apex, which is narrowly rounded ; base emarginate 
at each side, shoulders obliquely rounded : abdomen above faintly transversely rugulose, and 
very sparingly minutely punctulate. 
Length 3f lines. 
No locality given. 
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