22 e. J. GAHAN 



levìler grheo-puhescenlibus ; prothorace supra sparsim asperalo- 

 punclalo, medio plaga tra?isversa nigra, lateraliler rotundato, pone 

 medium laliore, deinde usque ad basin valde anguslalo; scutello 

 nigro, cinereo-marginato; elylris fusco-nigris, fasciis cinereis- una 

 ad basin, secunda ante medium valde contorta, tertia vix pone 

 medium transversa et ad suturam angulato-dilatata, quarta ad api- 

 cem sub-obliqua; apicibus suh-obliquiter trumatis, angulis breviter 

 denlatis; antennis medium elytrorum panilo excedentibus. 



( 9 ) Mare differì fasciis prothoracis eli/trorumque nonnihil fla- 

 vescentibus, antennis medium elijtrorum nec atlingentibus. Long. 

 (e/ 9) 6-12 V2 mm. 



Thagatà in Tenasserim ; and Mandalay in Upper Burma. 



Prothorax rounded at the sides, somewhat widened from the 

 base to beyond the middle and thence strongly narrowing to 

 the apex ; somewhat sparsely asperately punctured along the 

 middle above, the disk with two black spots or a transverse 

 black patch. The first cinereous band of the elytra runs across 

 the base on each side from the scutellum to the humeral de- 

 pression where it is slightly turned backwards ; the second begins 

 at the suture a little behind the scutellum, diverges from the suture 

 while passing backwards for some distance, then curves round 

 to take an anterior and outward direction, and is again sharply 

 bent i)ackwards just before reaching the outer margin : the 

 third band, placed just behind the middle, is narrow and slightly 

 oblique in its outer half, and is angulately dilated both anteriorly 

 and posteriorly at the suture ; the fourth is a rather broad and 

 somewhat oblique band placed at the apex. The body underneath 

 is closely covered with an ashy-white pubescence. The legs are 

 black, with a faint greyish pubescence; the first joint of the 

 posterior tarsi is nearly three times as long as the two succeed- 

 ing joints combined. 



The female differs from the male , not only by its shorter 

 antennae, but also by the yellowish-grey colour of its elytral 

 bands, and by having an illdefined longitudinal yellowish-grey 

 band on each side of the prothorax above. 



This species seems closely allied to P. cinereus, L. & G. (Mon. 



