356 Mr. G. Lewis on some 
Epiechinus birmanus, sp. n. 
Suborbicularis, niger, opacus, hispidus; prosterno utrinque cari- 
nato; mesosterno metasternoque in medio foveolatis. 0. arboreo 
simillimus, sed magis ovatus. 
L. 12 mill. : 
Suborbicular, opaque, setose; the head rugose, and when 
abraded of scales and sete an obsolete median and two lateral 
carine may be seen; the thorax has two lateral sulci on each 
side, and when cleaned, large scattered punctures are visible 
on the disk ; the elytra are costate, with rows of large punc- 
tures in the interstices; the prosternum is bicarinate, the 
border formed of the carinze joins in front, where the inner 
edge of the carina is arcuate, the outer truncate, the anterior 
lobe has scattered punctures, punctures smaller than in £. 
taprobane ; the mesosternum has a round median fovea and 
on each side of it a many-sided depression ; the metasternum 
has also a median fovea, but it is oval, and in front of it on 
either side, obliquely placed, are two depressions of some- 
what corresponding size and shape; the pygidium is punctate 
and rugose. 
The specimens which represent this species have been 
referred to in the Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, 1888, ser. 2, vi. 
p- 645, as Onthophilus hispidus, Payk., but it is now evident 
to me that it is not Paykull’s species. 
Hab. Burmah, Bhamo (Fea). 
Abreus mikado, sp. n. 
Ovatus, globosus, rufo-brunneus, nitidus; antennis pedibusque 
flavis; supra vix dense punctulatus; mesosterno metasternoque 
grosse et parce punctatis. 
L. 1 mill. 
Oval, globose, reddish brown, shining, head darker, an- 
tenne and legs paler; the forehead sparsely punctured ; the 
thorax and elytra evenly punctured, punctures shallow and 
not very thickly set, thoracic marginal stria complete, but 
very fine behind the neck; the propygidium and the py- 
gidium are feebly and indistinctly punctulate ; the prosternum 
a little wider than long, feebly and obscurely punctured, 
lateral strize slightly widen out from the base, the base very 
feebly sinuous ; the meso- and metasterna and the first seg- 
ment of the abdomen is evenly but not thickly covered with 
somewhat large and shallow punctures, the punctures being 
largest and most closely set at the widest part of the meta- 
sternum. 
