EPISOMUS. 



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fScutellum distinct, not enclosed, with dense brown scaling. Elytra 

 oblong-ovate, separately rounded at base, humeral angles well 

 developed, the suture distinctly carinate on the declivity ; upper 

 surface transversely impressed near base, the striae broad and deep, 

 with large subquadrate punctures, the intervals narrow and sub- 

 costate. Legs with greyish-brown scaling and some vague darker 

 markings on the posterior femora. 



(S narrower, the anal segmeut not impi-essed, the tubercles on 

 the hind tibije almost obsolete. 



Length, 104-124 mm. ; breadth, .')-6 mm. 



Assam: Silonibari, N. Lakhimpur(//. ;&7evt'us). Sikkim : Giiig 

 Lebong, 4500 ft. {H. M. Lefroif—Faaa, Coll.) ; Mungphu (Atkin- 

 son) ; Gopaldhara, iiungbong Valley, Darjihng (list. ( IF". K. Webb). 

 United Peovixces : Allahabad. 



T)/2Je in the Indian Museum ; of E. praince at Dresden. 



191. Episomus andrewesi, sp. nov. (fig. 66, g). 



Colour light or dark brown, the disk of the prothorax lighter, 

 the pale green lateral area beginning far below the level of the 

 eye and continued on to the mesosternum and not on to the base 

 of the elytra ; the latter with the following pale metallic green 



Episomus andrewesi, Msbl. 



markings in the S type : a stripe on the basal one-third of interval 

 3 connecting at its apex with a spot on 2, behind middle a 

 transverse lunulate marking on intervals 1-4, a small ill-defined 

 patch at tlie apex of intervals 4-7, a subtriangular irregular lateral 

 patch which I'eaches neither the base nor the margin and extends 

 inwai'dly to a point on the 6th stria. In the 2 these markings 

 are much less pronounced. 



Head with a narrow furrow, shallowly impressed laterally and 

 with a trace of two small tubercles on the vertex. Rostrum slightly 

 longer than broad, almost parallel-sided, the central furrow deep 



