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elytra are regularly striated, clothed with uuiform grey scales, 

 with the humeral calli prominent and the apical calli slightly 

 tufted. The propugidium is not wide and the hind margin is 

 broadly excised in the middle and tufted at each end of the 

 emargination. The three teeth of the front tibia are sharp, and 

 all the tarsi are slender, with the joints of equal length. 



The three typical specimens which I have examined appear to 

 be all males. 



Length 4*5 mm. ; breadth 3 mm. 



Burma : Karen Hills (L. Fea). 



Type in the Genoa Museum ; cotype in the British Museum. 



214. Xenoreoderus occidentalis, sp. n. 



Deep red-brown, with the head, legs, scutelluin and margins of 

 the pronotum aud elytra generally black : irregularly clothed with 

 not close-lying yellow scales, which are frequently larger aud 

 closer at the sides, base and middle of the pronotum, in the middle 

 of each elytron and iiear the scutellum. 



The form is stout and the legs moderately long. The dyp)eus 

 is rounded in front. The pronotum is scarcely longer than it is 

 wide, convex, longitudinally grooved at the middle, prominent in 

 front, with the sides nearly straight and parallel, but strongly 

 curved in front, the base strongly rounded and the hind angles 

 very obtuse. There are four inconspicuous tufts near the base 

 and two near the middle. The scutellum is very feebly elongate. 

 The elytra are not tufted, the propygidium and pygidi^im are 

 rather closely scaly and the former bears a pair of tufts at the 

 hind margin. The three teeth of the front tibia are sharp, and all 

 the tarsi are slender, with, the joints of equal length. 



I have found no sexual diiference in the specimens examined, 

 which were collected by Mr. H. Ivemball. 



Length 5*5 mm. ; breadth 3 "5 mm. 



Bombay : Belgaum. 



Type in the British Museum ; cotypes in coll. Andrewes. 



Genus DASYVALGUS. 



Dasyvalgus, Kolhe, Stettin. Ent. Zeit. Ixv, 1904, p, .34. 



Type, Valgus vethi, Eitsema (Sumatra aud Borneo). 



Range. Tropical Asia. 



Form ver}' various, but generally short, the body more or less 

 clothed with scales or setre. Legs generally slender ; the front 

 tibia toothed from end to end of the outer edge, the teeth 

 numbering five, of which the 1st and 3rd (counting from the 

 apex) are generally very long and the 4th frequently very blunt ; 

 the tarsi long, with the 1st joint longer than the 2nd. Prothorax 

 much narrower than the elytra together, with two longitudinal 

 dorsal carinae, and generally several tufts of erect setae. Terminal 



