the Genus Aorus, Schh. 341 



BURMA : Eangoon (type) ; Tharrawaddy (G. C. Corbet t). 



Faust was not acquainted with Pascoe's species, and his 

 description of E. pascoei agrees in all particulars with Pascoe's 

 type. As, moreover, the localities from which the two unique 

 types came are only 50 miles apart, there seems to be little 

 reason for doubting that they belong to a single species. 



4. Aorus ferrugineusy Boh. 



Aorus ferrugineus, Boheman, Scbonh. Gen. Cure. viii. pt. 2, 184-5, 

 p. 444. 



Java (type). Indo-ChinA: Cho-ganh, Tonkin (L. Du- 

 port) ; Kampong Kedey, Cambodia, iv. 1914 (R. Vitalis de 

 Salvaza). 



I am indebted to M. E. Fleutiaux for three specimens from 

 Tonkin, which 1 attribute to this species. I have not seen 

 the type, which is in Copenhagen, but the Indo-Chinese 

 examples accord so well with Boheman's description that I 

 can have little doubt as to the correctness of the identification. 

 M. Fleutiaux informs me that in Tonkin this species is very 

 common in the month of May on the ears of rice. 



5. Aorus anthracinus, Brancs. 



Leptobaris anthracina, Brancsik, Soc. Hist. Nat. Trencstin, xix.-xx. 

 1897 (1898), p. 124, pi. iv. fig. 17. 



N. Rhodesia: Boroma {Rev. H. P. Menyharth, type). 

 Portuguese E. Africa : Beira, vii. 1903 {P. A. Sheppard). 

 Uganda: Kampala, x.-xi. 1917 (C. C. Gowdey). Senegal. 



6. Aorus cancellatus, sp. n. 



<$ . Colour shining piceous black, without any trace of 

 scaling or setae ; the legs and antennas piceous. 



Head with small sparse shallow punctures, the vertex 

 transversely aciculate, the forehead much narrower than the 

 base of the rostrum and with a deep round central fovea. 

 Rostrum stout, as long as the prothorax, slightly curved at 

 the insertion of the antennae, subcylindrical from the base to 

 beyond the middle, thence distinctly dilated to the apex, 

 distinctly and evenly but not very closely punctate throughout, 

 the punctures at the sides being larger than those above; the 

 antennae inserted at about one-fourth from the apex. Pro- 

 thorax a little broader than long, strongly rounded at the 

 sides, broadest well before the middle, the base truncate, the 

 apical constriction well marked, and a shallow transverse 



