SYMPIEZOMIAS. 



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the sides regularly rounded, broadest at the middle, the apex only 

 slightly constricted and scarcely narrower than the base, evenly 

 set with small granules having their apices bare and shiny, and 

 with a narrow' central furrow from base to apex. Elytra narrowly 

 ovate in the c5" , broader in the ?, without any humeral fold, 

 shallowly compressed and subacuminate posteriorly, tlie apices 



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Fig. 54. — Male genitalia of 



(a) Si/i»pie::o/nias metalles- 

 cf^.s, *Mshl.; (b) 8. nimilis, 

 Mshl. 



Fig. 53. — Sz/s/ipie^omias i/ic/cdlesceiis, 

 Mshl. 



jointly rounded in both sexes, deeply punctato-striate, the in- 

 tervals convex and subcostate, the seta? short, sparse and suberect. 

 Ler/s red-brown, with grey scaling having a coppery reflexion. 



Length, c? S-Sl $ 8-ili mm.; breadth, J ''^~'^h 2 3^-5 mm. 



Burma : Ruby Mines (Dohcrti/). 



Types c? $ in the British Museum. 



134. Sympiezomias similis, sp. nov. 



Colour black, with grey scaling, the elytra having a faint trans- 

 verse dark band behind the middle and sometimes a more indis- 

 tinct dark patch before the middle, a small patch of metallic green 

 scaling at the external angles of the base and a few scattered 

 metallic scales along the sides. 



Very similar in general appearance to S. metalleseens, sp. n., and 

 differing in the following characters •.— Rostrum slightly narrowed 

 from the base to the middle. Protlwrax with the sides more 

 strongly rounded, more closely granulate, the apices of the gra- 

 nules not shiny, the central furrow deep in the anterior half but 

 more or less obsolete beliind. Elytra shorter, broader and more 

 convex, the sides more rounded and more rapidly acuminate behind. 

 Legs black, with grey scaling having a slight coppery reflexion. 



The (S genitalia are extremely different in shape {cf. fig. 54). 



