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with ill-defined paler spots behind the middle ; the subhumeral 

 patch always large and distinct. The size is larger and the width 

 of the elytra is rather less in pz'oportion to the length, with the sides 

 rather less rounded, this being especially noticeable in the c? • 

 Tet in spite of this rather striking difference in form, I cannot 

 find any distinction in the male organ from that of the only male 

 E.Jigulus which I have been able to dissect. This is probably a 

 well-marked local race. 



Length, 12-14 mm. ; breadth, 5-6:j mm. 



Assam : Khasi Hills. 



Type in the Stockholm Museum. 



203. Episomus giiadrimaculatus, sp. no v. (fig. G6, q). 



Colour dark brown above, without any discal or subhumeral 

 dark patches on the elytra, but with two small distinct white 

 s])ot8 on interval 3, one before the middle, the other at the to|) of 

 the declivity ; the infiexed margins greyish white, with a sharp 

 dividing line on the prothorax. 



Very closely allied to E.Jlr/ulus var. nigrosparsus, but rather 

 narrower in form and with the dorsal curvature distinctly more 

 fiat, while the outline of the posterior declivity is rather more 

 deeply sinuate, especially in the 5 . The prothorax is more cylin- 

 drical, and the slight elevation near the base of the median meso- 

 sternal process in E. Jignlus is quite lacking. In profile the male 

 organ is much more strongly arched dorsally in the middle, while, 

 when seen from above, it is much more strongly narrowed from the 

 middle to the base of the terminal spatula. 



Length, 10-13 mm. ; breadth, 4:j-5| mm. 



Assam : Naga Hills and Manipur {Doheitij) ; Deju, N. Lakhirn- 

 pur {H. Stevens) ; Sibsagar (Ind. Mus.). 



Tgpes <S 5 i'l the British Museum. 



204. Episomus profanus, Fst. 



Episomus profanns, Faust,* Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. xxxiv, 1894, p. 189 



(1895). 

 Ejnso7nus prqfaJins, var. pimctif/er, Faust,* 1. c. 



Colour uniform pale or dark brown above, the thorax without 

 darker stripes ; under-parts chalky uhite ; in the var. imnctiger 

 interval 2 of the elytra bears two small whitish spots, the posterior 

 one being frequently absent. 



Head faintly impressed on each side of the central furrow. 

 Rostrum as long as broad, evidently dilated at apex, the central 

 furrow not broader than on the foreliead. Antennce comparatively 

 slender, scape elongate, subcylindrical, slightly curved and sparsely 

 setose ; funicle with joint 2 rather longer than 1 or 7, the latter 

 cylindrical, slightly narrower than the club and about equal to it 

 in length, joints 3 and 4 equal and subquadrate. Prothorax a 

 little broader than long, its sides parallel from base to beyond 



