Pliytopliagous Colcoptera. 443 



Head smooth, impiinctate, face raised between the antenna;; 

 carhia narrow in front, dilated posteriorly, its apex lanceolate; 

 encarpo3 transverse, quadrangnlar, contiguous, separated I'roni 

 the front by a transverse groove; anteunaj filiform. Thorax 

 three times as broad as long; sides broadly margined, roimded, 

 cmarginate just in front of the hinder angle, the latter acute, the 

 anterior angle mucronate, excurved; disc transversely convex, 

 sjmringly impressed with very minute punctures, lateral margin 

 reflexed, its surface concave. Scutellum trigonate, its apex 

 obtuse. Elytra broader than the thorax, moderately convex, 

 flattened on the suture, distinctly but not very closely punctured, 

 the outer margin moderately dilated, reflexed. Prosterniim 

 twice as broad as long, its sides parallel, its apex truncate, its 

 disc longitudinally concave. 



Genus EUPiiiTREA, Baly. 

 1. Kuphitrea Assamensis, n. sp. 



liotundata, convexa, rufo-picea,' nitida, thorace licvi, elytris 

 piceis, ajneo-micantibus, subfortiter sat crel)re punctatis, linil)o 

 laterali pauUo reflexo, u-regulariter incrassato, fere impunctato. 

 Long. 2-1- lin. 



Hab. The Plains. 



Nearly allied to E. micans, Baly, much smaller, rather more 

 rotundate, the elytra more strongly and closel}' punctured, their 

 outer limb more distinctly reflexed: in the single specimen before 

 me the hinder legs are unfortiuiately broken off. 



Genus PENTAMESA, Lac. 



1. Pentamesa duodecimmaculuta, v. Harold. 

 Hab. The Upper Hills. 



Genus oides, Weber. 

 1. Oides indica, n. sp. 



Late rotundato-ovata, ad apicjem paullo attenuata, valdo 

 convexa, flava, nitida, antennis extrorsum, oculis, mctasterno, 

 al)dominisque segmentorum singulorum maculis duabus nigris. 

 Long. G lin. 



Hab. The Hills. 



Vertex smooth, iiiipiuictate; face just above the encarjia' deeply 

 impressed; encarpa' ti-ansverse, subclavate, separated (the extreme 



