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before the base, anteriorly it is fine and crenulate and deflected 

 behind the point where the marginal stria terminates, lateral 

 interstice rather ^Yide ; the elytra, outer subhumeral stria short, 

 deep, and well behind the humerus, dorsal striaj 1-4 com- 

 plete, with crenulate edges, the interstices at the bases between 

 the first and second and between the third and fourth are the 

 widest, 5 is apical, dimidiate, sutural apical and equal to two 

 thirds of the elytral length, and it turns a little away from 

 the suture near the apex ; the propygidium and the pygidium 

 are somewhat closely punctured, the punctures on the first 

 are rather the larger; the prosternum, anterior lobe sparingly 

 punctate, with a lateral deep stria, not close to the edge nor 

 meeting at the apex, keel not acute but triangular at its base ; 

 the mesosternum, anterior edge is feebly arched, stria and 

 that of the metasternum complete ; the anterior tibia is dilated 

 on its outer edge, the dilatation being surrounded by small 

 teeth, and there are a few irregular teeth beiiind them. 



This species, like the last, belongs to an Indian group of 

 the genus which has dilated fore tibite. 



Jdab. Tenasserim [Doherty). 



Epierus foederatus, sp. n. 



Ovalis, parum convexus, brunneus, nitidus, supra sparsim punetu- 

 latus ; fronts concava ; prouoto prascutellari impresso ; clytris 

 striis dorsalibus creinilatis, 1-4 integris, 5 dimidiata, suturali 

 basi abbreviata ; prosteruo bistriato, basi late inciso, marginato ; 

 niesosterno in medio angulariter producto ; tibiis anticis multi- 

 spinulosis. 



L. ] I mill. 



Oval, somewhat convex, brown and shining; the head 

 concave anteriorly, finely and sparsely punctured, with a 

 very small fovea on the vertex, epistoma rather broad ; the 

 thorax is punctured like the head, except before the scutellura, 

 in front of the scutellum there is a semicircular impression 

 and round its limits the punctuation is larger, marginal stria 

 fine and complete ; the elytra, all the dorsal strias are fine and 

 crenulate, 1-4 complete, 5 apical and dimidiate, sutural also 

 apical and a little longer, there is a faint trace of an inner 

 subhumeral stria ; the propygidium and pygidium are finely 

 and sparsely punctured and the first is microscopically trans- 

 versely strigose at the base ; the prosternum is broad and 

 bistriate, the strise are fine and feebly turned outwards at 

 either end, surface of the keel, sternal plates, and first seg- 

 ment of the abdomen with fine evenly scattered punctures ; 

 the mesosternum widely and angularly projects to fit the base 



