688 n. s. GORiiAM 



23. Aiolocaria dodecaspilota, Hope. 

 Coccinella 12 -spilota, Hope Zool. Misc. p. 31. 

 Caria 12 -spilota, Muls. Spec. Trim, sécur. p. 230. 

 Aiolocaria dodecaspilota, Crotcli, llev. Coccin. p. 178. 

 Carin Gheba. 



24. Chilocorus nigritus, Fabr. 

 Coccinella )ii(jrita, Faljr. 



Orcus cerherus, Muls. Opusc. VII, p. 148. 

 Rangoon. 



25. Orcus? discoideus, n. sp. 



Orbici da ris, conrexus, perohsolele, vix visihiliter puiictalns, sangui- 

 neo-rufus, antennis, palpis, tibiis tarsisque dilulioribus ; prolhorace, 

 elijlrùrumque marginibus late nigris. Long. 2 millim. 



Mas. ?, capite rìifo, prothoracis angulis anterinribus rìifesccntiìnis. 

 Fern ina, capite nigro. 



Ifab. Birma, Carin Ascinii Cliebà, Carin Ghecu. 



Orbicular, very convex and shining, the punctuation is very 

 fine and close, a little more deeply impressed on tlie head and 

 thorax ; the former is dull blood-red in some examples and 

 black in others, the thorax is short, of the usual Chilocorid form, 

 margined by a fine but distinct impressed line, the sides very 

 finely reflexed. The antennae are dull red, they reach as far as 

 the hind angles of the thorax. The elytra have their disk of fine 

 blood -i-ed colour, the margins widely black, at the apex this 

 black margin is wider, covering a quarter of the elytra. Tlieir 

 epipleurae are not black except at the outer margins. About 

 twelve specimens were obtained. This insect is congeneric with 

 a species I have described as Orcus ferrugineus, from India (Ann. 

 Soc. Ent. Belg. XXVIII, p. 203, 1894), these and the following 

 species are placed provisionally in the genus Orcus. 



26. Orcus carinicus, n. sp. 



Orbicularis, valde convexus, nilidus fortiter ac distincte punclalus; 

 niger, elylrorum disco (sutura nigra) saturate sanguineo. Long. 

 2.5 millim. 



