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scales, with a whitish spot iu the middle o£ each elytron, and 

 beneath with silvery grey scales. 



The protlioi-ax is bell-shaped, with the hind angles obtuse and 

 the base regularly rounded. There is a carinate loop in front, 

 which widens rather rapidly in its anterior part, its limbs being 

 continued backwards beyond the middle of the pronotum, and a 

 very short oblique carina on each side. The scutelhmi is long 

 and narrow. The elytra are rather short and the lateral costa on 

 each side is not tufted nor strongly marked at the end. 



(S . There is a dark patch on each side of the basal part of the 

 pronotum, and the centi-al part of each elytron, except the pale 

 spot, is also dark. The abdomen is slightly hollowed at the base 

 beneath, and the hind tibia is scarcely dilated at the end. 



2 . The body is more elongate, the scales more uniformly pale, 

 and there is a pinkish area at the base of the elytra. The pro- 

 pygidium is broad and horizontal, with the middle part rather 

 prominent and minutely notched. The tarsi are shorter and the 

 abdomen more convex than in the male. 



Length 9-11 mm. ; breadth 5 mm. 



Burma : Karen Hills, Palon (L. Fea). 



Type in the Genoa Museum. 



208. Oreoderus maciilipennis. 



Oreoderus macuhpeunis, Gestro,^ A^in. Mus. Gcnova, (2) x, 1891, 

 p. 869. 



Dark brown or chestnut, clothed with greyish brown scales 

 above and pale greyish ones beneath. 



The irrothorax is rather narrow, with a deep median furrow and 

 a strongly-marked impression on each side. There is a carinate 

 dorsal loop which is broad iu front, strongly contracted before 

 the middle and evanescent beyond it. The lateral margins are 

 indented in the middle and not divergent at the base, the posterior 

 angles are obtuse and the basal margin distinctly angulate in the 

 middle. The scutellum is narrow and sharply pointed. The 

 elytra are rather parallel-sided and without apical projections. 

 The hind margin of the p7'oj)ygidiiim is nearly straight and 

 minutely notched in the middle. 



cJ . The central part of each elytron is chocolate- colour, crossed 

 at the middle by a short bar of nearly white scales. The abdomen 

 is sHghtly arched and the hind tarsi are a little longer than those 

 of the female. 



5 . The body is more elongate and the scales of the upper 

 surface are almost uniformly gi"ey, but there is a short longitudinal 

 reddish humeral patch upon each elytron. 



Length 8 mm. ; breadth 4 mm. 



Burma: Bhamo {L. Fea). 



Type in the Genoa Museum. 



Three specimens in the Genoa Museum were taken by Fea on 

 different occasions. The type is a male, but I have every reason 

 to believe, on structural grounds, that I have rightly associated the 

 two sexes. 



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