228 CETONIIX^. 



209. Oreoderus humeralis. 



Oreoderus humeralis, Gestro,* Ann, Mus. Genova, (2) x, 1891, 

 p. 804. 



Dark brown or chestnut, clothed with brownish or brownish 

 grey scales above, and \\\t\\ lighter ones beneath. 



The prothora.v is bell-shaped, prominent in front, with the sides 

 sinuated and divergent at the posterior angles, which are obtuse, 

 and the base very obtusely angiilate in the middle. There is a 

 discoidal loop, the limbs of which closely approach one another 

 before tlie middle of the pi'onotum and are produced distinctly 

 behind the middle, and an oblique lateral carina on each side not 

 reaching the margin. The scutellum is rather narrow, with tlie 

 sides divergent and rather straiglit, and the apex sharp. The 

 elytra are striated and the lateral costoe are not very prominent 

 behind. 1\\q propy(jidium is produced in the middle. 



S • The central part of each elytron is chocolate-coloured with 

 a pale transverse mark at the middle. The abdomen is slightly 

 hollowed at the base, and the middle and liind tarsi are distinctly 

 longer than those of the female. 



2 . The body is more elongate and clothed with greyish scales, 

 those on the hinder part of the pronotum and the elytra being 

 brown, and the latter having each a conspicuous elongate red 

 patch at the shoulder. The propygidium is large and horizontal, 

 and produced into a sharp angle in the middle. 



Lem/th 8-9 mm. : breadth 3"5-4 mm. 



Burma : Bhamo (L. Fea). 



Type in the Genoa Museum. 



This species was described from female specimens, to which 

 alone the name is appropriate. 



210. Oreoderus gravis, sp. n. 



Chocolate-colour, rather densely clothed with round scales, 

 except upon the scutellum which is smooth and shining, those of 

 the lower surface, pro])ygidium and pygidium being large and 

 grey, while those of the head, pronotum and elytra are smaller 

 and darker, but relieved with paler scales at the base, apex, 

 sutural margins and middle of the elytra. 



It is a large, broad species. The dypeus is not long, well 

 rounded in front and armed with a minute bitid process at the 

 middle of the front margin. The prothorax is relatively small 

 and narrow, witli the sides rounded in front and nearly parallel 

 behind, the base rounded and the disc bearing a carinate loop, a 

 little constricted before the middle and produced beyond it, aiul a 

 very short oblique carina on each side. The scutellum is ratlier 

 broad. The elytra are broader conjointly than their length, with 

 their lateral cosije sharply prominent at the end. The legs are 

 not long, the two terminal teeth of the front tibia are very large 

 and sharp, and the third tooth is very short. 



