46 rTGIDICBANID.E. 



in the S ; very small in the $ . Elytra smooth, ample, long, fuscous, 

 with a distiuct purple sheen ; with a few stifi' bristles ; some- 

 times with a pale transverse baud at the shoulders. Wings 

 ample ; squamae long and narrow, pale and with a central fuscous 

 spot. Legs pale, femora and tibiae with fuscous rings ; former 

 with distinct carinulse. Abdomen of c? slendei-, shining purplish 

 black, gently and slightly broadened towards the apex ; $ broader, 

 somewhat depressed, angustate posteriorly, with a short thick 

 yellowish pubescence. Last dorsal segments of c? quadrate, smooth, 

 scarcely broader than the base of the abdomen ; in the $ sloping 

 and narrowed. Penultimate ventral segment of <S parallel-sided, 

 posterior margin rather deeply emarginate in the middle, with 

 broadly rounded lobes. Forceps with the branches not depressed, 

 stout, straight, subcontiguous, trigono-conical, acuminate and 

 very slightly hooked at the apex ; in the $ cylindro-couieal, short, 

 contiguous, straight. 



Length of body 10 mm. 9 mm. 



„ forceps 1 „ 0'75 „ 



Burma : Bhamo, April and August (coll. Burr, Genoa Mus.) ; 

 Karen-ni, Keba District, 3000-3700 ft. {coll. Burr). 



Type in the author's collection. 



This species was confused by de Bormans with D. liberatus, Burr, 

 under the name of D. macrocephala, which is a very distinct 

 African species, and by the author of this work with D. nigrkejps 

 and D. greeni. 



It differs from them all in having the penultimate ventral 

 segment of the male emarginate in the middle ; in D. liheraius this 

 plate is truncate ; in the true D. nigncejys from Hong Kong it is 

 somewhat convex in the middle. 



Superficially it also resembles D. greeni. 



It is impossible to determine which of the localities quoted 

 by de Bormans should be attributed to this species, and which 

 to D. bormansi without an actual examination of each spe- 

 cimen. Those quoted above are all represented in the author's 

 collection. 



.9. Diplatys gerstseckeri, Dolim. (Pig. 7.) 



Nannopygia gerstseckeri, Dohrn, (63) p. 60 ; Scudder, (76) p. 326 ; 



Kirby, (91) p. 508 ; Bormans, (94) p. 372, (00-) p. 11. 

 Dyscritina lougisetosa, Westioood, (81) p. 601, pi. 22, figs. 1, \a-i; 



'Green, (96) p. 229, (98) p. 383. 

 Diplatys longisetosa, Burr, (98) p. 388, pi. xviii, figs. 4, 5 & 16 ; 



pi. xix, tigs. 9-14 ; Borm. (00') p. 10, fig. 6. 

 Diplatys gerstseckeri, Burr, (01) p. 74, pi. A, figs. 4 & 5, (05) pp. 279 



&282. 



