lUO 0. J. GAIIAN 



233. Astathes gibbicollis, Thorns. Systema Ceramb. p. 559. 

 Bhamù in I^pper Burma. 



234. Astathes dimidiata, Gory. — Tetraopes dintidiata. Gory. 

 Guér. Icon, règne animal. , p. 244, t. 45, fig. 3. 



Meetan in Tenasserim. 



235. Astathes violaceipennis , Thorns. , Archiv. Ent. I , p. 53. 

 — Tetraophthalmus violaceipennis^ Thoms., Archiv. Ent. I, p. 53. 



Garin Mts. (district of Gheba). 



236. Chreonoma frontalis, sp. n. Testaceo- flava, selosa, postpectore 

 ahdomineque et elytrorum apicibus iiigro-cyaneis, antennis versus 

 apicem nonnihil infuscatis; capite sparse-, prothoraceque sat dense 

 punctatis; eltjtris dense punctatis, punctis versus apicem evanescen- 

 tibus. Long. 11-13 mm. 



Bhamò in Upper Burma. One example. Also North India 

 (Brit. Mus. Coll.). 



Yellowish testaceous or fulvous; the elytra somewhat paler; 

 hind-breast, abdomen and the posterior fifth or sixth of the 

 elytra dark metallic blue. Head feebly and sparingly punctured, 

 the front projecting in the middle in the form of a carina or 

 laterally -compressed tubercle , which is less well marked in the 

 female. Prothorax somewhat more thickly and more strongly 

 punctured ; the disk with a tolerably distinct , though not sharply 

 limited, central umbone or swelling which is somewhat rounded 

 or transversely-oval in shape. Elytra rather thickly punctured 

 over the whole of the yellow area; less thickly and not so 

 manifestly punctured on the dark-blue apical portion. In addi- 

 tion to these larger setigerous punctures, the interstices between 

 them exhibit a very fine punctuation. 



This species somewhat resembles Chreonoma dilecla, Newm. 

 (Plicca) but the latter has the antennae almost entirely black, 

 the whole of the underside of the body fulvous testaceous, the 

 apex of the elytra piceous; the prothorax also is less thickly 

 punctured , is very feeble raised on the middle of the disk , 

 and the lateral tubercles are almost obsolete; the head of the 

 female lias a raised line along the middle of the lower part 

 of the front. Chreonoma melanura, Pasc. , seems, from the de- 



