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piligerous pit on the side which characterizes the males of 

 Stromatium. 



Many of the species placed under this genus in the Catalogue 

 of Gemminger and Harold do not really belong to it ; others are 

 still unknown to me. The exact range of the genus is uncertain ; 

 that which I have given above is based upon the distribution of 

 such species as are known to me. 



106. Hesperophanes cribricollis, Sates, Proc. Zool.Soc. 1878, p. 720 ; 



id. Scientific Results of the Second Yarkand Mission, Coleoptera, 

 p. 21 (1890). 



" Cylindricus, fulvus, pubescentia iucumbente cinereo-fulva 

 apud elytra maculatim vestitus ; thorace rotundato, elytris multo 

 angustiore, inaequali, lateribus medio subtuberoso, supra crebre 

 alveolato-punctato ; scutello cinereo ; elytris oranino discrete punc- 

 tatus, haud conspicue bicarinatis, apice gradatitn angustatis, sub- 

 acuminatis." 



" Closely allied to the European H. yriseus, but distinguished by 

 its smaller and more coarsely reticulate-punctate thorax, and by the 

 elytra tapering towards the apex causing the sutural angle to be 

 very acute. The fourth antennal joint is only a little shorter than 

 the third and the fifth. The tawny-grey, laid pubescence is very 

 even on the antennae, the whole under surface, and the legs." 



Length 16|-19 mm. 



Hob. Murree. 



107. Hesperophanes erosus, Gahan, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, xxxiv, 



p. 12 (1894). 



$ . Reddish brown, somewhat darker in colour on the upper- 

 side ; the head rather densely covered with greyish-brown pubes- 

 cence ; the prothorax with some irregular longitudinal spots or 

 patches of greyish-brown pubescence, the spaces between obso- 

 letely punctured and opaque ; elytra with a closely recumbent 

 pubescence distributed in irregular and partly confluent spots 

 or patches, the naked intervening spaces somewhat glossy. 

 Head marked above with a median line. Antennae extended a 

 little beyond the middle of the elytra. Prothorax convex above 

 and below, strongly rounded at the sides, marked with a few large 

 but shallow punctures on the antero-median part of the disc. 

 Scutellum grey. Elytra strongly and very densely punctured ; 

 rounded at the apex ; each with two slightly raised longitudinal 

 lines. Intercoxal process of prosternum somewhat abruptly 

 deflexed posteriorly and slightly narrowed at the end. 



This species is provisionally placed in the genus Hesperoplianes ; 

 it may possibly prove, when the male is known, to belong to the 

 genus Stromatium. 



Length 23 mm. 



Hob. Tenasserim : Meetan (Fea). 



