EPisoMus. 245 



Bombay: JN^. Kanani {T. li. D. Bell); Bombay {Fontanier). 

 Madras : Utakamaud. Buiima : Gokteik {H. L. Andrewcs) ; 

 Karen Hills (Fm) ; Chin Hills. 



Ti/pe in the Stockholm Museum, also type of E. cataleucus. 



215. Episomus subniteiis, sp. nov. (fig. (i6, o). 



Colour liglit brown, the prothorax with a broad sharply defined 

 dark lateral stripe, which is continued on to intervals 3-6 of the 

 elytra and becomes gradually lighter behind, interval 2 sometimes 

 with a broad stripe of pale metallic green scaling ; inflexed margins 

 ol' the prothorax and elytra pale sandy or brown and more or less 

 washed with metallic green or coppery scaling. 



Head with a broad deep furrow and a slight rounded elevation 

 on each side of it. Rostrum about as long as broad, slightly 

 dilated near the apex, the central furrow widened in front, the 

 lateral costa3 with a deep longitudinal impression, Antennce with 

 joint 2 of the funicle distinctly shorter than 1 and about as long 

 as 7, 3 and 4 equal and transverse, 7 cylindrical, as broad as the 

 club and a little longer. Prothorax as long as broad, the sides 

 subparallel or slightly dilated from base to beyond middle, then 

 narrowed to apex, the basal margin truncate, coarsely plicate and 

 ^\'ith a deep central furrow. Scutellura very small. Elytra broadly 

 ovate in the § , narrower in the S , jointly sinuate at base, with- 

 out any humeral augles ; upper surface not impressed at base, 

 the longitudinal curvature moderate, with deep striae containing 

 large punctures which are more or less confluent towards base in 

 striae 3-6, the intervals much broader than the striae and almost 

 plane, the suture scarcely elevated on the declivity. Legs with 

 pale scaling, sometimes with a metallic reflexion, the posterior 

 pairs of femora with a faint darker band ; hind tibiae of c5' with 

 one large and one small tubercle close to the apex. 



Anal segment of 6 with a broad median furrow. 



LciigiJi, J 16, 2 134-17 mm.; breadth, c? 7|, $ 61-81 mm. 



Burma: Pegu {Atkinson); Mergui, Teuasserim"(J.Vti}iso>i)- 

 Java. 



Types (5 2 in the British Museum. 



216. Episomus sennas, Fst. 



Episomus semice, Faust,* Aun. Mus. Civ. Gen. xxxiv, 1894, p. 186 



(1895). 



Upper side light brown, under-pai"ts whitish or light brown ; 

 prothorax with a broad dark lateral stripe, which is continued on 

 to the elytra on the base of intervals 4-7, extends along 5-7 

 nearly to middle and then is dilated obliquely inwards, forming a 

 sharp angle on interval 2 at the top of the declivity, where it 

 terminates abruptly and transversely. 



Head scarcely impressed behind the eyes, with a broad deep 



