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Show 72 MR. M. JACOBY ON THE [Feb. 1, D E M O T I N A CEYLONENSIS, sp. nov. Broadly ovate, robust; fuscous, clothed with fulvous pubescence ; tbe three or four lower joints of the antennae fulvous ; elytra with a transverse whitish band at the middle, the apical portion spotted. Length 2 lines. Galle. Broader and more robust than D. thoracica, and the pubescence fulvous instead of whitish. The elytra, instead of finely and distantly punctate-striate, are here strongly and closely punctured, and a transverse band, composed of thick white pubescence, is placed at the middle; this band is narrowed towards the suture and is, in one specimen, followed by a broad black denuded space, while the apical portion is variegated by white and fulvous pubescence ; in another specimen, which I refer to the same species, the transverse band is only indicated and the space below it shows some small fuscous spots, alternated by white and fulvous pubescence. The present species resembles somewhat D. fasciata, Baly, but is more robust and the thorax is less transverse, the pubescence shorter and differently placed. XANTHONIA FLAVOPILOSA, sp. nov. Narrowly elongate; pale fulvous, covered with fine silky flavous pubescence ; terminal joints of the antennae dusky ; elytra extremely minutely punctured. Length lf-2 lines. Head extremely finely punctured, covered with rather long yellowish hairs ; the anterior margin of the epistome nearly straight; eyes entire, scarcely sinuate within. Antennae nearly as long as the body in the male, the third and fourth joints nearly equal. Thorax one half broader than long, transversely depressed across the disk, the sides strongly rounded, the lateral margin obsolete; the surface clothed, like the elytra, with rather long silky yellow pubescence, extremely finely punctured ; femora unarmed; tibia) entire ; claws bifid ; the anterior margin of the thoracic episternum subeoncave. Galle, Dikoya. This species is larger than X. placida, Baly, from Japan; the thorax is more transverse and flattened, and the punctuation of the upper surface is much more finely impressed, and only visible under a strong lens; the pubescence is also longer. NEPHRELLA ELONGATA, Baly. I do not think I am wrong in referring the two specimens contained in this collection to Baly's species, with the description of which they agree perfectly, except in one respect in regard to the punctuation of the upper surface. In the specimens before me the thorax and elytra, which are of an obscure fuscous, are closely covered with fine fulvous pubesence, which totally obscures any punctuation. Mr. Baly speaks of the thorax as not very deeply punctured, and of the elytra as finely wrinkled, of which I am not able to see a trace. It is therefore possible that the specimens obtained by Mr. Lewis repre- |