EROTYLIDAE FROM BURìMA "111 



This fine species resembles and is allied to Encaiistes praeno- 

 bilis, Lewis, from Japan, but is abundantly distinct, and quite 

 easily recognised by the almost total absence of punctuation 

 which is so conspicuous in that insect. The head has only a 

 few fine punctures at the base, and the thorax a few obsolete 

 ones in the basal fossae. The sides of the latter are a little 

 more curved. The elytra are wholly black, and the punctuation 

 (fine though it is in E. praenobilis) is even more obsolete, and 

 the whole u{)per surface is duller. A very striking difference 

 exists in the sculpture of the legs. In E. praenobilis these have 

 the femora punctured, and the tibiae very coarsely rugose, but 

 in E. birmanica, the femora are smooth , and the tibiae only 

 finely punctate. 



In the male the tooth on the inner side of the front femora 

 is quite differently situated. 



A single male specimen is all that I have seen. 



"2. Encaustes cruenta, Macleay, Ann. .lav., p. 42. 



Hab. Tenasserim, Thagatà. 



3. Encaustes dispar, Lac, Monogr. Erotyl., p. 39. 

 Hab. Tenasserim, Thagatà. 



4. Micrencaustes dehaanii, Lac, Monogr. Erotyl., p. 43. 

 Hab. Tenasserim , Thagatà. 



0. Micrencaustes liturata (MacL). 



Dacne Liturata, Macl., Ann. Jav., p. 42. 



Encaustes liturata, Lac, Monogr. Erotyl., p. 43. 



Micrencaustes liturata. Crotch, Rev. Erotyl. Cist. Ent. 1876, 

 p. 497. 



Hab. Burma , Bhamò, Teinzò. Tenasserim , Thagatà. 



A variable insect, the example from Thagatà is a curious 

 form in which the red of the disk of the thorax is so diffused 

 as to have two detached spots, and the margin black in an 

 irregular way, and the elytra have a humeral red spot. The 

 elytra in this specimen are very distinctly punctate-striate. I 

 have examples from the Philippine Islands (Bohol). 



6. Episcapha indica, Crotch, Rev. Erotyl. Cist. Ent. 1876, 

 p. 408."' 



