EPisoMus. 243 



margin truncate ; upper surface transversely plicate, the central 

 furrow shallow. Scutellum very small, witli paler scaling than the 

 suture. Elytra elongate-ovate, basal margin jointly and shallowly 

 sinuate, without any humeral angle, and not transversely im- 

 pressed near the base ; the longitudinal curvature flat near base, 

 deepest behind middle, the suture plane throughout : sulci rather 

 shallow, with large, separated and often ocellated punctures, the 

 intervals broad and plane. Legs \v\th. dense pale scaling and with 

 very short, sparse setas ; hind tibia3 of J with an internal tooth 

 at about one-fourth from the apex. 



Lenr/th, Qg-l^l mm. ; breadtli, -l|^-G:j mm. 



Burma: Eangoon {Gapt. A. K. Weld Downing)-^ Tharrawaddy 

 and Paungde (Corbeit)- Karen Hills and Palon (Fea). 



Type in the Dresden Museum. 



212. Episomus limbaticoUis, sp. nov, (fig. 66, u). 



Colour light brown above, with a broad dark brown stripe 

 passing from the eye along the side of the prothorax and con- 

 tinued indefinitely on the base of the elytra ; under surface grey, 

 the pale colour on the prothorax being sharply separated from 

 the dark lateral stripe on a level with the lower edge of the 

 eye. 



Head as in E. pudibundus, but with the two median tubercles 

 rather smaller and the eyes more convex. Rostrum slightly longer 

 than broad, evidently dilated anteriorly, the central furrow rather 

 shallow and widening in front, the adjoining costae scarcely im- 

 pressed ; the normal impressed line running obliquely downwards 

 from tiie eye is absent. Antennce with fawn-coloured scaling and 

 brownish setae, the structure as in E. pxidibundus. Prothorax as 

 long as broad, the sides moderately rounded, broadest before the 

 middle, the base truncate and distinctly broader than the apex, 

 the upper surface coarsely plicate, the central furrow rather 

 shallow, Scutellum small, but distinct. Elytra elongate-ovate, 

 almost parallel-sided in the middle ( d ), the basal margin jointly 

 and shalloA^ly sinuate, without any humeral angle and not trans- 

 versely impressed at the base, the apices briefly dehiscent ; the 

 strice rather deep and narrow, the punctures somewhat elongate, 

 the intervals broad and plane, their edges more sharply defined 

 than in E. piudibundus. Legs with pale fawn scaling, the hind 

 tibife of (S with a single tooth on the inner side at about one- 

 fourth from the apex. 



Length., \2\ mm. ; breadth, 6 mu). 



Burma ; Euby Mines {Dolwrty). 



Type S in the British ^Luseum. 



213. Episomus oblongus, sp. nov. (fig. 66, t). 



Closely allied to E. UndjaticolUs, but differing in the followiuo- 

 particulars : — 



r2 



