238 CEEAMBTCID.i:. 



thence of nearly equal width np to the apex, where they are 

 narrowed and end each in a sharp spine ; the surface densely 

 punctate, with the front edges of the punctures slightly raised. 



Lenrjth 16-23 ; breadth 3|-5 mm. 



Hah. British Bhutan {L. Durel in coll. Oberthiir) ; Manipur 

 {Doherty) ; Burma : Karen Hills {Fea). 



In structural characters, such as the form or the gibbosity on 

 the prothorax and the shape of the elytra, this species agrees 

 pretty closely with T. r/ibbosiis, Pasc. The examples from Bhutan 

 M'hich 1 have seen are much darker in colour than those from 

 Manipur and Burma, and constitute a variety to which the name 

 nignscens may be given. 



II. Elytra dehiscent from before the middle; each less than half as 

 bread at middle as at base. 



26S. Thranius triplagiatus, sp. n. 



Head, prothorax and body beneath fulvous, with a not very 

 dense covering of fulvous yellow pubescence ; anteunoB black ; 

 elytra fulvous, each with the greater portion of the apical half, a 

 transverse spot at the base and a large rectangular spot at the 

 side a little behind the base, black. Antennae of the 5 extended 

 to a little beyond the middle of the elytra ; the first joint rugose- 

 punctate. Disc of prothorax strongly but somewhat obtusely 

 raised along the middle, sloped gradually posteriorly and more 

 abruptly in front, its surface more or less asperate. Elytra 

 dehiscent at about one-sixth of their length from the base ; each 

 narrowed thence up to about the middle of its length, and then 

 gradually widened up to the apex, ending in a short point, not 

 m a spine as in other species of the genus ; the width of the 

 elytron at the middle less than half what it is at the base ; the 

 surface rather densely asperate-punctate, with the dark areas more 

 densely punctured. 



Lingth 20 ; breadth 5 mm. 



Hab. Manipur {Doherty). 



269. Thranius fryaniis, sp. u. 



Eeddish brown ; the elytra paler, but marked each with a dark- 

 brown spot behind the scutellum, anotht'r on the disc a little 

 before the middle, and a dark longitudinal band that extends 

 backwards from tlie middle and disappears before it reaches the 

 apical dilated part : antennae dark brown, with the first two joints 

 and the greater part of the third reddish. Antennae of $ ex- 

 tended ouly a little past the middle of the elytra; first joint 

 densely and i-ather strongly punctured, second and third less 

 densely and less strongly punctured ; fourth to eleventh and apex 

 of third very minutely and densely punctulate. Prothorax 

 relatively rather broad ; with the disc obtusely and not very 



