82 e. J. GAHAN 



192. Eucomatocera vittata, White, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 

 XVIII (1846), p. 49, pi. I, fig. 4. 



Garin Mts. (district of Gheba) , alt. 900-1100 m. ; Teinzò in 

 Upper Burma. 



The head in this species is shaped like that of Tetraglenes 

 insignis; and the eyes also offer the same characters. 



White unfortunately and, we may add, carelessly described 

 and figured a specimen in which the head was misplaced. The 

 front of the head was uppermost , the vertex in front , while 

 that part of the head which ought to have been inserted in the 

 prothorax did duty for a mouth. No wonder, therefore, that, as 

 White remarks, the mouth-parts were wanting. This explanation 

 will account for Lacordaire's observations on the genus. 



Estigmenida , gen. nov. 



Intermediate cotyloid cavities open. Claws of tarsi divergent. 

 A sinus on the intermediate tibiae. Head vvith the front trape- 

 ziform and oblique, the antennal tubercles somewhat prominent 

 and slightly divergent; the mouth parts applied to the anterior 

 coxae when the head is fully retracted. Prothorax slightly con- 

 vex above, scarcely longer than broad, with the sides sub-pa- 

 rallel and unarmed; with the pronotum in the middle line about 

 twice as long as the prosternum; the latter forming a very 

 narrow boundary to the coxal cavities in front, rather narrow 

 in the middle between the coxae, but widening out considerably 

 behind. Elytra nearly one half broader than the prothorax, their 

 sides very gradually narrowed and almost parallel in their an- 

 terior three fourths and thence more strongly narrowed to the 

 apex ; the latter truncate. Each elytra with three or four costae 

 of which one lateral and outermost is somewhat more promi- 

 nent than the rest. The mesosternum is, like the prosternum, 

 almost fiat; it gradually narrows posteriorly. The legs are of 

 moderate length; the femora slightly incrassate below the middle; 

 the middle coxae of the male each with a small sharp conical 

 tubercle at its inner summit. 



