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end. The pro^fijgidium is straight at the posterior margin and 

 the terminal spiracles are sharply prominent. 



Length 7"5-8o mm. ; breadth 4-4"5 mm. 



Upper Burma : Momeit, 1800 ft. ( W. Dohertij). 



Type in the British Museum ; cotypes in coll. K. Oberthiir. 



This species has been kindly presented by M. Rene Oberthiir to 

 the British Museum. 



204. Oreoderus bhutanus, sp. n. 



Dark brown, clothed densely with scales, which are brown or 

 buff above and greyish beneath, the elytra usually decorated with 

 a pale spot in the middle of each. 



The body is very elongate and depressed. The 2^>'othora,v is 

 long, rather parallel-sided, with a prominent loop in front, and 

 distinctly dilated at the posterior angles, each lateral margin 

 having two distinct indentations. The dorsal carinas do not reach 

 the middle and there is a slight oblique carina on each side before 

 the middle. The scutelliim is long, narrow and rather acute at 

 the apex. The eh/tra are long and the lateral costse not tubercu- 

 late at the posterior end. The pro2'>ygidium is produced into a 

 short lobe and notched in the middle, and the pygidlum is not 

 large. 



c? . In addition to the pale spot, the front, hind and sutural 

 margins of the elytra are sometimes lighter in colour, and also 

 the margins of tlie propygidium. The hind tarsi are longer than 

 the tibijB. 



2 . The colour of the upper surface is always dark brown. The 

 body is narrower, the propygidium longer and nearly horizontal, 

 and the hind tarsi are not longer than the tibiae. 



Length 8-9 mm. ; breadth 3*5-4"5 mm. 



Bhutan : Maria Basti {L. Durel). 



Type in the British Museum ; cotypes in coll. E. Oberthiir. 



The British Museum is indebted to M. Rene Oberthiir for this 

 species. 



205. Oreoderus rufulus. 



Oreoderus rufulus, Gestro,* Ann. Mus. Genova, (2) x, 1891, p. 867. 



Black, brown or chestnut-red, clothed with scales which on the 

 upper surface are dark chocolate or reddish, with a small pale spot 

 at the middle of eacii elytron, and on the lower surface and the 

 lower part of the pygidium silvery grey. 



The p>)'Othorax is moderately long, with the sides nearly parallel 

 behind and the hind angles rather sharp. Tlie scutelliim is rather 

 long and narrow. The elytra are moderately long and the lateral 

 costa is not tufted nor very prominent at its hinder end. The 

 apices of the elytra are simply rounded, and the propygidium is 

 not indented at the middle of the hind margin. 



c5' . The pronotum bears in front a looped carina, the ends of 



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