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sides and base being strongly and continuously rounded. The 

 elytra are broad at the shoulders, with the sides strongly sinuated 

 and almost parallel from the sinuation to the extremity. 



Fig. 4G. — Parcqnlinurgus variegatus. 



Length 14'5 mm. ; breadth 7*5 mm. 



BuEMA : Karen Hills ; ToNKiJf : Dong Van. 



Type in the British Museum. 



A single specimen was found by the late W. Doherty in Burma, 

 and a specimen in M. Bene Oberthiir's collection was taken by 

 Capt. Gadel in Tonkin. 



Genus GOLIATHOPSIS. 



Goliathopsis, Janson, Cist. U?it. ii, 1881, p. 609. 



Type, Pilimirgus despectus, Westw. 



liange. Burma, Siam and Tonkin. 



Bather short in form, with the shoulders prominent, and not 

 appreciably narrowing behind, clothed above and beneath with an 

 opaque bloom ortomentum. Clypeus semicircular, with the margin 

 recurved. Prothorax strongly transverse, «'ith the basal mai'gin 

 uniformly rounded, not produced or excised in the middle. Scu- 

 tellum short, broad in front and extremely acute at the apex. 

 Elytra deeply excised externally. Pygidium vertical. Last pair 

 of spiracles prominent. Middle coxae contiguous. Legs mode- 

 rately long ; front tibiae sharply bidentate ; four posterior tibiae 

 acutely digitate at the ends ; tarsi slender. Mandible stout, with 

 the terminal tooth sharp and nearly straight, and the internal 

 membrane well developed. Maxilla short, armed with three blunt 

 teeth. Mentum very tumid beneath, with the front margin 

 straight. 



c? . Head furnished with a pair of branched horns arising from 

 above the eyes. Pirst four ventral segments contracted in the 

 middle, and the last two enlarged and smooth. 



Two species of this remarkable genus have been discovered, the 

 typical one occurring within our boundaries. 



