AMASENUS. 201 



thickly speckled with reddish, except on the head and lateral 

 areas of the sternum, which are hrownly punctate ; legs brownish- 

 ochraceous mottled with reddish-brown ; antennte brownish-ochra- 

 ceous, apical joint of each luteous with its apex infuscated. 



Length 17 to 20; bi*eadth between prouotal angles 11 to 

 13 millim. 



Hah. Bhutan {Brit. Miis.). 8ikhim (Atl-insoji Coll.). Cachar 

 (Wood-Mason). Burma; Huhy Mines {DoJiert>/). 



325, Compastes exstimulatus, sp. n. 



Allied in general structure, colour, and appearance to C. hhuta- 

 nicus, but differing in the following characters : — the head has a 

 distinct spine in front of each eye ; the anterior pronotal angles 

 behind eyes are produced in a somewhat long curved spine, behind 

 which are two prominent spines on the anterior lateral margins ; 

 the apices of the pronotal angles are broadly concave betw een two 

 prominent spines and two similar spines on the anterior lateral 

 margin, these produced angles are not broadened apically as in 

 C. boiUanicus : scutellum with a very distinct central ridge; body 

 beneath darker than in Dallas's species. 



Length 15 to 17 ; breadth between pronotal angles 10 to 

 11 millim. 



ffab. Nuga Hills {DoherUj). 



326. Compastes spinosus, Did. Tr. E. S. 1887, p. 351, pi. 12, f. 11. 



Above brownish, coarsely and darkly punctate ; pronotum 

 rugulose, with a central longitudinal luteous line, the lateral 

 margins with three prominent spines oehraceous at their apices, 

 the first at anterior angle behind eye ; the lateral angles 

 shortly and broadly produced, their apices rounded anteriorly, 

 subtruncate posteriorly, and terminating in a very short oehraceous 

 spine : body beneath brownish and darkly ])unctate ; legs oehra- 

 ceous, mottled and spotted with brownish ; sublateral margins of 

 the sternum bronzy ; lateral abdominal margins with a series of 

 segmental pale oehraceous spots ; rostrum oehraceous, its apex 

 piceous ; (antennre mutilated in the typical specimen). 



Length 17 ; breadth between pronotal angles S millim. 



Hah. Sikhim (C'o?Z. Dist.). 



Genus AMASENUS. 

 Amasemxs, Stal, Tr. E. S. ser. o, i, p. 601 (1863). 



Type, A. corticalis, 8tal. 



Bistrihution. Assam and Malay Peninsula. 



Body oval, depressed ; head \\'ith the lateral lobes longer than 

 the central and distant from each other, their margins lobate in 

 front of eyes, notched and narrowed before apex : rostrum just 

 reaching base of third ventral segment ; antennae five-jointed, 

 basal joint not nearly reaching apex of head ; pronotum with, the 

 anterior lateral marijins dentate, the lateral angles some\\'hat 



