UXATHOLEA. 



Ill 



I. Body rather densely pubescent ; mandibles of rf sub-horizontal 

 with strong dorsal crest, 



A. Elytra marked with ivory-like spots. 



103. Gnatholea ebnrifera, Thorns. Essai Class. Ceramb. p. 375 (1861). 



Eeddish brown to brown in colour, rather densely covered with 

 brownish-grey pubescence, the elytra marked each with two closely 

 approximated ivory-like spots just behind the middle and a 

 similar spot at the base, the inner of the two sub-median spots 

 usually smaller than the outer one. Prothorax rather broad in 

 front and narrowed towards the base in the c? , almost as narrow 

 at the apex as at the base in the $ ; the disc with two small but 

 distinct tubercles placed transversely just before the middle. 

 Elytra rounded at the apex, a little truncate near the suture 

 and armed each with a sutural spine ; the surface rather thickly 

 dotted with rather large but shallow sub-nitid punctures, the 

 front edges of which are slightly raised ; each with two very 

 feebly raised and almost obsolete dorsal lines. Antennae scarcely 

 as long as the body in the $ ; about one-third longer than the 

 body in the J . 



Length 15-26 ; breadth 4-6 mm. 



Hab. Tenasserim ; Siam ; Malay Peninsula ; Borneo. 



Fig. 44._ Gnatholea 

 simplex, Gahan, tf. x 4. 



B. Elytra ivithout ivory-like spots. 



104. Gnatholea simplex, Gahan, A. M. 

 N. H. (6) v, p. 53 (1890). 



.Brown, sometimes reddish brown, in 

 colour, rather densely covered with drab- 

 grey pubescence. In structural cha- 

 racters it agrees pretty closely with 

 G. eburifera, Thorns., but has the two 

 discal tubercles of the prothorax smaller 

 and less distinct and the asperate punc- 

 tures of the elytra fewer in number and 

 smaller in size, the anterior part of the 

 disc especially being almost destitute 

 of them. 



Length 14-24 ; breadth 3|-6 mm. 



Hab. Sikhim : Darjeeling ; Assam ; 

 Burma: Euby Mines (Doherty), Mati- 

 dalay and Prome (Fea), Tharawaddy 

 (Corbett). 



II. Body sparsely pubescent ; mandibles of <5 oblique, with 

 dorsal carina. Elytra marked with ivory-like spots. 



105. Gnatholea fryana, sp. n. 

 Testaceous red, rather dull above ; the elytra marked each with 



