EXITHEMUS. 



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322. Agathocles limbatiis, stal, En. Hem. v, p. 106 (1879), 



Dull ochraceous, very thickly and coarsely blackly punctate, the 

 pronotum and base of scutellum distinctly x'ugulose, head a little 



darker or sometimes black ; 

 antennae brownish - ochra- 

 ceous, basal joint usually 

 darkest ; lateral margins of 

 the pronotum and basal 

 lateral margin of corium 

 *^S2s£a^ll^-2=sr^ I CX^^^R \ narrowly pale reddish- 



ochraceous ; connexivum 

 brownish-ochraceous, darkly 

 punctate inwardly and 

 prominently dark at apices 

 of incisures : body beneath 

 „. ,-,, , .1. 7 1- I , black; disk of abdomen 



" "^ more or Jess castaneous ; 



legs brownish-ochraceous ; coxae, trochanters, bases of femora, and 

 rostrum In teous ; lateral margins of sternum, basal margin of corium 

 as seen beneath, and a broad lateral margin to abdomen bright 

 ochraceous or reddish-ochraceous. 



Length 20 to 22 ; breadth between pronotal angles 11 millim. 

 Hah. Assam {Coll. Dist.). Sylhet (StocUiohn Jlus.). 



Genus EXITHEMUS, nov. 



Type, E. assamensis, Dist. 



Distribution. Assam. 



Allied to Agatliocles ; head shorter and broader, the lateral lobes 

 only slightly longer than the central, their apices rounded ; pro- 

 notum with the anterior margin a little wider than the eyes, but 

 less truncate behind them, the apical angles obtusely prominent, 

 lateral angles a little more produced, between them is a slight 

 transverse ridge, beyond which the anterior ai*ea is moderately 

 deflected ; connexivum distinctly angulated at apices of incisures ; 

 rostrum just passing the intermediate coxae ; abdomen unarmed 

 at base ; (antennae accidentally mutilated in unique specimen before 

 detailed description was written). 



323. Exithemus assamensis, sp. n. 



Ochraceous, somewhat thickly darkly punctate, much more 

 sparingly so on scutellum, the central disk of which is consequently 

 much paler in hue ; a linear levigate fascia between pronotal angles, 

 from the centre of which a similar fascia crosses anterior area and 

 extends through head : a small luteous levigate spot near each basal 

 angle of the scutellum, which is black ; connexivum with the 

 apices of the incisures black : body beneath and legs ochraceous, 

 sparingly darkly punctate, abdomen more reddish-ochraceous ; 

 the punctures on sternum more confluent; near coxae and on lateral 

 areas of prosternum ; abdomen with the basal margin and a 

 short fascia on each lateral area black ; anterior legs blackly punc- 

 tate, the femora with a large black spot beneath a little before 



