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surface shining and more or less clothed with yellow hairs : 

 decorated with very minute whitish spots as follows : — a pair 

 placed transversely at the middle of the pronotum and a second 

 pair closer together in front ; a spot at the extreme apex of the 

 scutellum ; about nine on each elytron, four along the base of tlie 

 pygidium, and one in each hind angle of the four anterior ventral 

 segments. 



The body is rather narrow and distinctly tapers behind. The 

 clypeus is strongly and closely punctured, slightly narrowed in 

 front and moderately notched at the apex. The protlioraoo is dis- 

 tinctly, but not closely, punctured on the disc and more rugosely 

 at the sides, which are gently curved, without a distinct angu- 

 lation. The scutellum is unpunctured and not very long. The 

 elytra are rather strongly punctured, with the apical part rugose 

 and with two distinct costse on the disc of each. The lateral 

 margins are strongly sinuated and the apical angles shghtly 

 spinose. The pygidium is finely gi-anulated, the metasternum 

 closely punctured and hairy, except along the middle line, and 

 the abdomen strongly but sparingly punctured. 



$ . The last ventral segment is closely punctured and the inner 

 spur of the hind tibia squarely truncated. 



Lenr/th 16-19 mm.; breadth 9-11 mm. 



United Peoyinces : Almora ; Sikkim : Karsiang ; Assam : Jaintia 

 Hills, Khasi Hills ; Burma : Shan States, Mt. Mulaiyit ; Siam. 



Type in the Genoa Museum ; that of assamica in coll. Witte 

 (Diisseldorf). 



The first described specimen was found upon Rhododendron 

 flowers in Burma by Leonardo Fea. 



Genus ^THIESSA. 

 ^thiessa, Bm-meister, Handb. Ent. iii, 1812, p. 405. 



Type, Cetonia feralis, Erichs. (Algeria), 



Range. The Palaearctic Eegion. 



Form compact and moderately elongate. Clypeus transverse, 

 reflexed in front and scarcely notched. Prothorax narrow in 

 front, with the base incUned at the sides and abruptly emar- 

 ginate in the middle. Scutellum moderately long, bluntly rounded 

 at the apex. Elytra sinuated at the sides and acute at the apical 

 angles. Propygidium projecting at an angle in the middle. 

 Sternal process very short, flat and dilated in front of the middle 

 coxae. Eront tibia armed with three teeth ; middle tibia sharply 

 spinose at the extremity ; hind tibia not spinose. Tarsi mode- 

 rately slender, the basal joint in the hind pair short and produced 

 externally into a sharp spine. 



(S . Abdomen excavated beneath. Tarsi longer and stouter. 



The only species which appears to extend into our region is the 

 following : — 



