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CUECULIONID.T. 



middle and then rapidly narrowed ; npper surface deepl}' plicate, 

 the central furrow deep. Scutellum ovate, longitudinal. Ehitra 

 separately rounded at the base, humeral angle distinct, apices 

 slightly produced in $ ; upper surface with a rather shallow 

 transverse impression at base, dorsal curvature moderate, strise 

 deep, closely punctate and narrower than the intervals, which 

 are broadly costate, the suture elevated on the declivity, especially 

 in the 5 . Legs with pale scaling and darker markings on the 

 posterior pairs of femora ; hind tibiae of c3' with a few small 

 granules internnlly. 



Length, 11-13 ram. ; breadth, 44-6^ mm. 



BuKMA : Karen Hills (Fea). 



Types in the Genoa Museum, 



liie variety imnctiger differs from the type form only in the 

 presence of the white spots on the elytra. 



205. Episomus uniformis, Pasc. 



Einsotmis t/nifonnis, Pascoe.* Ann. Mag:. Nat. Hist. (5) xx, 1887, 

 p. 349 ; Faust, Hor. Soc. Eut. Eoss. xxxi, 1897, p. 129. 



Colour uniform sandy brown, but sometimes \\'ith a dark brown 

 spot behind the middle on interval 4 and another before the 

 middle on interval 10. 



Head with a shallow transverse impression behind the eyes, 



Fig. 73. — Episomus imiformis, Pasc. 



forehead with a deep central furrow, but without lateral impres- 

 sions. Rostrum dilated towards apex, the central furrow very 

 broad and deep, the lateral furrows very shallow or even obsolete, 

 epistome scarcely impi-essed in the middle and not carinate at the 

 sides. Antennce with dense brownish scaling ; funicle witli joints 

 1 and 2 subequal, 3 equal to 4, 7 cylindrical, as broad as and 

 longer than the club. Prothorax slightly shorter than its width 

 at base, sides almost straight, broadest at base and very slightly 



