2dO CEEAMBYCID^E. 



thence of nearly equal width up to the apex, where they are 

 narrowed and end each in a sharp spine ; the surface densely 

 punctate, with the front edges of the punctures slightly raised. 



Length 16-23 ; breadth 3|-5 mm. 



Bab. British Bhutan (L. Durel in coll. Oberthiir) ; Manipur 

 (DoTierty) ; Burma : Karen Hills (Fea). 



In structural characters, such as the form of the gibbosity on 

 the prothorax and the shape of the elytra, this species agrees 

 pretty closely with T. gibbosus, Pasc. The examples from Bhutan 

 which 1 have seen are much darker in colour than those from 

 Manipur and Burma, and constitute a variety to which the name 

 nigrescens may be given. 



II. Elytra dehiscent from before the middle each less than half as 

 bread at middle as at base. 



268. Thranius triplagiatus, sp. n. 



Head, prothorax and body beneath fulvous, with a not very 

 dense covering of fulvous yellow pubescence ; antenna? black ; 

 elytra fulvous, each with the greater portion of the apical half, a 

 transverse spot at the base and a large rectangular spot at the 

 side a little behind the base, black. Antenna? of the $ extended 

 to a little beyond the middle of the elytra ; the first joint rugose- 

 punctate. Disc of prothorax strongly but somewhat obtusely 

 raised along the middle, sloped gradually posteriorly and more 

 abruptly in front, its surface more or less asperate. Elytra 

 dehiscent at about one-sixth of their length from the base ; each 

 narrowed thence up to about the middle of its length, and then 

 gradually widened up to the apex, ending in a short point, not 

 in a spine as in other species of the genus ; the width of the 

 elytron at the middle less than half what it is at the base ; the 

 surface rather densely asperate-punctate, with the dark areas more 

 densely punctured. 



Length 20 ; breadth 5 mm. 



Hab. Manipur (Doherty}. 



269. Thranius fryanus, sp. n. 



Reddish brown ; the elytra paler, but marked each with a dark- 

 brown spot behind the scutellum, another on the disc a little 

 before the middle, and a dark longitudinal band that extends 

 backwards from the middle and disappears before it reaches the 

 apical dilated part ; antennae dark brown, with the first two joints 

 and the greater part of the third reddish. Antennae of $ ex- 

 tended only a little past the middle of the elytra ; first joint 

 densely and rather strongly punctured, second and third less 

 densely and less strongly punctured ; fourth to eleventh and apex 

 of third very minutely and densely punctulate. Prothorax 

 relatively rather broad ; with the disc obtusely and not very 



