CiXATHOLEA. 



Ill 



I. Body ratlicr denseh/ puhescenf ; mandibles of 6 sul-liorizontal 

 ivitli stronx) dorsal crest. 



A. Elijtra marled with ivory-lilce spots. 

 103. Gnatholea eburifera, Thoms. Essai Class. Ceramh. p. 375 (1861). 



Eeddish brown to brown in colour, rather ^^«f ^'^^'^J^^^^^^^if; 

 brownish-grey pubescence, the elytra marked each with two closely 

 Approximated ivory-like spots pst behind the nuddle and a 

 s n lar ot at the base, the inner of the two sub-median spots 

 1 ally smaller than the outer one. Prothorax rather broad m 

 • nt and narrowed towards the base in the d , almost as n™ 

 at the apex as at the base in the $ ; the disc with two small but 

 dstinct\ubercles placed transversely just before the middle. 

 Elytra rounded at the apex, a little truncate near the suture 

 and armed each with a sutural spine ; the surface rather thickly 

 clotted with rather large but shallow sub-nitid P^jf J^^^^'/^^ 

 front edges of which are slightly raised; each with t^^o very 

 feebly rafsed and almost obsolete dorsal lines. Antenna, scarce y 

 as long as the body in the ? ; about one-third longer than the 



body in the 6 . 



Lenqth 15-26 ; breadth 4-6 mm. _ 



Hah. Tenasserim ; Siam ; Malay Peninsula ; Borneo. 



B. Elytra ivithout ivory-lihe sijots. 



104 Gnatholea simplex, Gahan, A. M. 

 N. H. (6) V, p. 53 (1890). 



Brown, sometimes reddish brown, m 

 colour, rather densely covered with drab- 

 grey pubescence. In structural cha- 

 racters it agrees pretty closel}^ with 

 G. eburifera. Thorns., but has the two 

 discal tubercles of the prothorax smaller 

 and less distinct and the asperate punc- 

 tures of the elytra fewer in number and 

 smaller in size, the anterior part of the 

 disc especially being almost destitute 

 of them. 



Length 14-24 ; breadth 3|-6 mm. 



Hah. Sikhim : Darjeeliug; Assam; 

 Burma: Kuby Mines {Doherty), Mau- 

 dalay and Prome {Fea), Tharawaddy 

 (Corbett). 



Fig. 44. — Gnatholea 

 simplex, Gahau, c? . X 



II. Bodri sparsely pubescent ; mandibles of 6 oblique, ivith 

 dorsal carina. Elytra marJced tuith ivory-hie spots. 



105. Gnatholea fryana, sp. u. 



Testaceous red, rather dull above ; the elytra marked eacli ^^•ith 



