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scape set with short stiff erect setse, the funicle with pale narrow 

 scales. Prothorax a little broader than long, the sides almost 

 parallel i'roiii the apex to the middle and then sharply narrowed 

 to the base, the latter strongly bisinuare, the apical margin very 

 oblique laterally ; on each side near the base a short longitudinal 

 lateral carina se|)arating two impressions oF which the upper is 

 the deeper, the dorsal outline sloping i'rom apex to base. KJytra 

 separately rounded at the base, the shoulders rather sloping and 

 forming a rounded obtuse angle, the sides slightly dilated behind 

 the middle, the striae deep, the punctation indistinct, the setae 

 short and subdepressed ; the scutellum with whitish scaling. 

 Legs red-brown, with dense pale scaling, the tibiae rather strongly 

 curved and with erect white setae. 



Length, 3 mm. ; breadth, Ig mm. 



Burma : Mergui {Doherty). 



Type 2 in the British Museum. 



259. Brachycaulus personatus, sp. nov. 



Colour black, with brownish scaling, the elytra with a faint 

 darker chevron-shaped marking behind the middle, the ])osterior 

 margin of which is almost straight, followed by a greyish-white 

 apical patch. 



Nearly allied to B. posticalis and differing as follows : — 



Head with the forehead narrower, about twice as broad as the 

 eye. Eostrum longer, evidently narrower at the base than the 

 head behind the eyes and slightly dilated at the apex. Antennce 

 with the scape more curved, more strongly clavate, and the erect 

 setae longer. Prothora.v with the sides more rounded in the 

 middle, the basal margin less deeply bisinuate. Elytra much less 

 strongly rounded at the base, the striae liner and shallower ; the 

 scales smaller, not overlapping and less strongly fluted, the scale- 

 like setae much longer and more erect; the scutellum with dark 

 scaling. Legs with tlie tibiae almost straight. 



Length, 3 mm. ; breadth, 1| mm. 



Burma : Euby Mines {Doherty). 



Type § in the British Museum. 



G-enus STELORRHINUS, nov. 

 Type, Myllocerus carinirostris, Mshl. 



Head with a broad flat raised area on the forehead, abruptly 

 truncate behind and appearing as if formed by a plate-like exten- 

 sion of the upper surface of the rostrum, the vertex on a much 

 lower level ; the eyes large, sublateral. Rostrum rather strongly 

 dilated at the apex, the epistome with a very deep acute-angled 

 emargination and the limiting carina very prominent ; the poste- 

 rior edge of the scrobes on a level with the angle of the epistome, 

 narrow and curved in front, and ending behind in a deep rounded 

 fovea ; the buccal aperture oblique, the mandibles pincer-like and 



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