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ETJTELIIfjE. 



and the base feebly Insinuated. The scutellum is very short and 

 finely punctured. The elytra bear strong and irregular punc- 

 tures, some of which form lines. The pygidium is turned 

 inwards and sparingly punctured. The front tarsi are thickened, 

 and the outer claw much larger than the inner one. 



$ . Longer and more oval, with the mandibles not produced or 

 acute, the head more rugose, and the prothorax, elytra, and 



Fig. \5.Fruhstarferia 

 birmanica, c?. 



Fig. \.Fruhstorferia, 

 birmanica, $ . 



pygidium more coarsely and closely punctured. The elytra have 

 a small but well-marked thickening beyond the middle of the outer 

 edge and the pygidium is prominent. 



Length, 17-20 mm. ; breadth, 9'5-10'5 mm. 



BUEMA: Buby Mines (W. Doherty type), Chin Hills, Haka 

 (F. E. Yenning, August). 



Type in the British Museum. 



Except in the shape of the head and the enlarged calliper- 

 shaped mandibles of the male, this peculiar species has little 

 superficial resemblance to the preceding one. 



Genus DIDREPANEPHORUS. 



Didrepanephorus, Wood-Mason, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) ii, 1878, 

 p. 421. 



TYPE, Didrepanephorus bifalcifer, Wood-Mason. 



Range. ASSAM. 



Very compact and convex in form, with rather short and thick 

 legs, and entirely clothed above and beneath, including the legs, 

 with moderately short but close hair, very short and velvety upon 

 the scutellum and elytra. The clypeus is narrow and rather long, 

 the eyes wide apart and not prominent, with strongly developed 

 ridges in front. The antenna? are 10-jointed and moderately 

 long. The pronotum is very tumid, with a slight median depres- 

 sion, the sides angulated in the middle, and the base broadly and 

 gently lobed. The scutellum is rather wider than long, with 

 curvilinear sides. The elytra are short, with their apical margins 



