174 CEEAMBTCID.I. 



on the outer (dorsal) face, and a long spiniform process at the 

 apex. 



Length (to tip of abdomen) 11 mm. 



Hob. Burma : Moulmein ; Assam : Patkai Mts. (Dolierty). 



189. Merionoeda amabilis, Jordan, Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1895, p. 268. 



Unicolorous testaceous yellow ; with the antennas, the extreme 

 apex of the elytra and a ring before the apex of the hind femora 

 black, the apex of the hind tibiae brownish. Head with a rather 

 deep impression that separates the clypeus from, the front, and a 

 short median groove on the front between the antennal sup- 

 ports ; finely punctulate, the punctures densely placed near the 

 eyes. Prothorax nitid, longer than broad, obtusely tuberculate on 

 each side and trituberculate above, the median tubercle with a 

 slight depression before the base. Elytra nitid, reaching nearly 

 to the middle of the first abdominal segment ; dehiscent from 

 about the middle of their length, strongly punctured in irregular 

 rows. 



Length 1.3 ; breadth 3 mm. Elytra 4| mm. long. 



Hob. Assam : Khasi Hills. 



From M. niyriceps, White, which it most resembles, this species 

 is readily distinguishable by its yellow head, entirely black 

 antennao and relatively longer prothorax. 



Genus KUNBIR. 

 Kunbir, Lameere, Ann. Soc. Ent. Bely. 1890, C. R. p. ccxiii. 



Type, K. teUphoroides, Lameere. 



Range. That of the type species. 



Allied to Merionoeda, Pasc., from which it differs by the following 

 characters : Elytra much longer, completely or almost completely 

 covering the abdomen, a little narrowed in the middle, not 

 dehiscent, separately and rather broadly rounded posteriorly. 

 Hind legs shorter; the femora extend only a little past the 

 apex of the elytra, with the club less abruptly formed ; the tibiae 

 asperate instead of spinulose, with two spurs at the end. 



This genus has been placed by Lameere in the group Cleomenini, 

 but as it has the acetabula of the middle coxa? open to the epimera 

 and the acetabula of the front coxae augulate on the outer side, 

 it cannot rightly enter into that group. The structure of the 

 abdomen in both sexes resembles that of Merionoeda, and in all 

 other points, the length and form of the elytra excepted, there is 

 a rather close resemblance between the two genera. 



190. Knnbir telephoroides, Lameere, Ann. Soc. Ent. Eelfj. 1890, C. R. 

 p. ccxiii. 



cj . Testaceous red, nitid ; antenna?, apex of elytra, abdomen, 



