70 LYG^ID^. 



black, shining : body beneath more palely piceous ; antennae 

 slender, third and fonrth joints not incrassate ; corium and 

 posterior area of prouotum somewhat coarsely punctate ; clavus 

 longitudinally punctate. 



Length 6| millim. 



Hah. Burma ; Karennee {Coll. Dist.). 



b. Antenncti luith the tJiird and fourth joints irrominenthj 

 incrassate. 



794. Lachnophorus leucospilus, WalJc (Rliyparocbromus) Cat. Het. 



V, p. 98 (1872). 



Piceous : apical area of corium black, containing a transverse 

 whitish spot ; a pale whitish spot at apex of membrane ; basal 

 lateral margin of corium ochraceous ; antennae very robust, third 

 and fourth joints distinctly incrassate ; head finely greyishly pilose; 

 posterior lobe of pronotum sparingly but coarsely punctate. 



Length 6 millim. 



Eah. Sylhet (Bowring). Burma ; Karennee (Fea). 



795. Lachnophorus meriila, sp. n. 



Black, opaque ; a spot on lateral margins of pronotum at the 

 region of the constriction and basal lateral area of corium 

 ochraceous, a spot before apex creamy-white ; clavus piceous ; 

 antennae robust, third and fourth joints distinctly clavate ; 

 pronotum sparingly coarsely punctate, the lateral margins a little 

 upwardly carinate and subainpliate, transversely constricted a 

 little behind middle ; apex of scutelluiu distinctly carinate ; clavus 

 longitudinally punctate ; corium (excluding lateral margin) spar- 

 ingly punctate. 



Length 6^ millim. 



Hab. Burma ; Karennee. 



Genus TROPISTETHUS. 



Tropistethus, Fieb. Eur. Heyn. pp. 48 & 184 (1861) ; Stil, Of v. Vet.- 

 Ak. Fork. 1872, no. 7, p. 52. 



Type, T. holosericeus, Scholtz, a Palaearctic species. 



Distribution. Palaearctic, Oriental, and Neotropical Regions. 



Differs pi'incipally from Lachnophorus and liht/parochromus by 

 the anterior femora being only shortly and regularly spinous near 

 apex, not also provided with a single prominent spine ; second 

 joint of the rostrum much longer than the third ; the pronotum is 

 also shorter. 



