COCCINELLIDAE FROM P.IRMA 691 



This insect is allied to .4. ariasi. Crotch, an Indian species, 

 the discoidal spot is nearly the same in form and position, but 

 there is a large lateral spot in .4. Irioblitus which is united to 

 the margin, and instead of a posterior spot, the Burmese insect 

 has the apex broadly black, the inner margin of the black being 

 sinuate. The base of the elytra is marked with black in the 

 middle, thus the yellow portion is shaped rather like the letter x. 



Two examples only of this little species ; a male and female. 



:'.l. Ortalia maeklini, Muls. Opusc. Ill, p. 130. 



Bharao. 



" Common throughout the East Indian Arcliipelago, " Crotch. 



32. Rodolia rufopilosa, ^luls. Spec. Col. Trim, sécur. p. 903. 

 Tenasserim : Kawkareet. 



33. Cryptogonus malasiae, Crotch, Rev. Coccin. p. 203. 

 Bhamo, Carin Asciuii Ghecu. 



34. Cryptogonus birmanicus , n. sp. 



Oblongo-ovaius :, breviter , hand dense pubescens , niger; capite 

 {maris), prothoracis angulo antico, femoribus, ahdoinineque saturate 

 ferriigineis, elytrorum macula magna discoidali aurantiaca, tibiis 

 tarsisque flavis. Long. 5 millim. 



Hab. Birma, Carin Chebà. 



In the more brightly coloured examples, the head, front mar- 

 gin of the thorax, and its front angles, are yellow. The legs are 

 either yellow, or deep rusty red, the tibiae and tarsi paler. The 

 punctuation is exceedingly close but not confluent, nor irregular. 

 The pubescence is very short and rather hoary, or pale golden, 

 sometimes silvery grey. The elytra 1 spot is irregular in size and 

 form, sometimes transverse, it is nearer the base than to the 

 apex. 



In a smaller specimen (4 millim.). The head is very obscurely 

 red, the elytral spot nearer to the base, and the apex of the 

 elytra narrowlv red, and the angles of the thorax are not red, 



