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et octavo subinfuscatis , tribus apicalibus clavam perfoliatam pre- 

 benlibus ^ fmcls, capite prolhoraceque crebre leviter distincte punc- 

 tatis. Luttg. 6 niillim. 



Hub. Burma, Garin Gheba. 



Liglit orange-yellow, with the elytra and the scutelluni black, 

 the form is very like that of C. valida^, Reitter, from the Gaspian 

 end of the Gaucasus, to which this species is closely allied ; the 

 thorax has tlie sides little rounded, the front angles are acute 

 and not much depressed ; the base is sinuate, lo])ed in the middle, 

 and the lobe slightly truncate in front of the transverse scutel- 

 luni. The elytra are more deeply striate than in C. valida, there 

 is not a shortened scutellar stria, the suturai stria being com- 

 plete, but rather irregular. The underside is wholly yellow, 

 finely punctured, the mesosternum obsoletely rugose, the pro- 

 sternal margins meet in front, forming a raised area. 



The antennae have their third joint longer than the two fol- 

 lowing and nearly as long as three, all the joints to the eighth 

 are fusiform; the club perfoliate, the ninth joint triangular, the 

 tenth transverse, the apical smaller than the tenth. The maxil- 

 lary palpi dilated at the apex. I place this insect under Cyrto- 

 triplax for convenience as other Eastern species which are con- 

 generic have been so descril)ed , but it is not a Triloma nor a 

 Triplax, and the type of Mr. Grotch's genus is the former viz. 

 T. bipustulata. Fab. I have already gone into this correction in 

 the Biologia Centrali Americana, Vol. VII, p. 79, but as that 

 work is not accessible everywhere, I will repeat here that if 

 " Tritolila" is used as it should be for the PaUrarctic genus, 

 it will then be possible to adopt Mr. Crotch's name for the 

 Eastern species which resemble Triplax in the club of the an- 

 tennae. 



;29. Cyrtotriplax duodecimnotata , n. sp. 



Breviler ovata, postice attenuata, subtilissime punctata, castaneo- 

 rufa, pernitida ; prothorace maculis quatuor , duabiis major ibus 

 medianis, basini attingeìitibus, duabiis minoribus lateralibus, elytris 

 singulis maculis quatuor magiiis, duabus sufuram approximatis, 

 ■una in callo humerali, una pone medium submarginali ; antennis 



