EPISOMUS. 



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Anteniice with the scape almost straight and graduallv thickened, 

 fiinicle with joint 1 longer than 7, 3 much longer than 4, 

 7 cylindrical, longer than 2, as broad as the club but longer. 

 FrothorcLv strongly transverse, base truncate and a little broader 

 than the apex, sides rounded, broadest at middle : upper surface 

 roughly plicate, with a deep central furrow. Scutelhim small, but 

 distinct. Elytra oblong-ovate, not much rounded laterally, trun- 

 cate at base and without any liumeral angle ; upper surface not 

 impressed at base, the longitudinal curvature moderatelv convex, 

 in other respects similar to E. senna'. 



Anal segment of 2 without a median furrow. 



c? unknown. 



Length, 9i- mm. ; breadtli, 5 mm. 



India (type). Burma : Maymyo, 3500 ft. ( T. B. Fletcher— Fn^a 

 Coll.). 



Tyi^e 2 in the British Museum. 



218. Episonms sulcicollis, Pasc. 



SimaUus sulcicollis, Pascoe,* Jouni. of Ent. 1865, p. 420, pi. xvii. 



I. b. 



Episoinus auriculatns, Faust. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. xxxiv, 1894, 

 p. 187 (1895). 



Light earth-bro\\u above and below, with a broad lateral stripe 

 varying from opalescent white to pale fawn and extending from 

 the rostrum to the apex of the elytra where it widens out inde- 

 finitely ; above this stripe is a similar one of dark brown which 

 extends along intervals 4 to 6 as far as the top of the declivity. 



Fig. 75. — Episoiiius sulclcoUU, Pasc. 



Head with a very deep central furrow and a strong transverse 

 impression on the vertex, the median costaj elevated postei'iorly 

 and forming two prominent conical tubercles. Rostrinn as long as 

 broad, quite parallel-sided, the central furrow narrow and very 

 deep posteriorly, the costje with a small basal impression. 



