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Subfamily Negastriinae NAKANE & KISHII, 1956 Quasimus pauxillus (SCHWARZ, 1901) comb. nov. Hypnoidus pauxillus SCHWARZ, 1901, Deutsche Ent. Zeitschr. : 31 (Ceylon). Length 2.3 mm. Body oblong ovate, entirely black and clothed with fine, cinereous pubescence; basal three segments of antennae and legs (sometimes femora dusky brown) yellowish. Scutellum flattened, without ring-like ridge. Elytra almost parallel-sided from base to apical third; surface smooth, elytral striae quite absent. Specimens examined: 7 exs., India (Matheran), without exact date and collector. Distribution: India, Ceylon. Negastrius aeneus (SCHWARZ, 1901) comb. nov. Hijpnoides aeneus SCHWARZ, 1901, Deutsche Ent. Zeitschr.: 30 (Nalanda). Length 2.7 mm. Body oblong-ovate and convex above, black and tinged with an aeneous colour, basal two segments of antennae and legs blackish-brown, clothed with fulvous pubescence all over. Disc of pronotum densely, coarsely and rugosely punctate, bearing some small tubercles on the median area. Elytral striae deep, well defined; intervals a little elevated, irregularly and transversely rugose. Specimen examined: 1 ex., India (Lonauli), without exact date and collector. Distribution: India. Negastrius oblongus (FLEUTIAUX, 1934) comb. nov. Zorochrus oblongus FLEUTIAUX, 1934, Proc. Hawaii Ent. Soc, 8 (3): 476 (Inde; Pusa). Specimens examined: 12 exs., Bombay, without exact date and collector. Distribution: India. Subfamily Oxyiiopterinae SCHENKLING, 1925 Subgenus Neopectocera nov. of the genus Pedocera HOPE, 1842. Type-species: Pedocera nivea FLEUTIAUX, 1918, Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, 24: 213 (Madura). This new subgenus can be distinguished from the nominate subgenus Pedocera s. str. in having the male antennae serrated and not pectinated from the third segment, and the third tarsal segment of the legs weakly dilated beneath. Also resembles the genus Ceroleptus FLEUTIAUX, 1927, but can be distinguished from the latter in having the mesosternum clearly separate from the metasternum by a deep crevice.