TEMNASPIS. 



Genus TEMNASPIS. 



Temnaspis, Lacord. Mon. Phytoph. i, 1845, p. 716 ; Chapuis. Gen. 

 Coleopt. x, 1874, p. 92. 



Type, T.javana, Guerin, from Java. 



Range. Nepal; Bengal; Burma; the larger islands of the 

 Malayan Subregion. Madagascar, Africa. 



Eyes comparatively small, not prominent ; antennae rather long, 

 third joint longer than fourth, terminal six trigonal, dentate on 

 their inner sides. Thorax narrower than elytra, transversely 

 subquadrate, with an anterior and posterior sulcus. Elytra more 

 or less pubescent; posterior femora strongly incrassate, armed 

 with one or several strong spines in the male. Metasternum 

 strongly raised on each side into a pointed elevation. 



162. Temnaspis bengalensis, Westw. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. (3) ii, 



1864, p. 276. 



Fulvous ; clothed with pale yellowish hairs ; the head with the 

 posterior margin and a spot anteriorly, brownish. Thorax with 

 two large black spots before the middle of the disc and another 

 smaller spot near the base. Scutellum fulvous. Elytra strongly 

 punctured, the shoulders and a large spot behind the middle of each 

 elytron black ; the flanks of the thorax with two black spots ; the 

 metasternum entirely and a band at the apex of the abdomen 

 black. Legs fulvous, the posterior femora fulvous at apex, black 

 at base, armed below with two spines. 



Length 8 mm. 



Hob. Bengal. 



163. Temnaspis nigripennis, Jac.Ann.Miis. Civ. Genova,xxvii, 1889, 



p. 155. 



Flavous ; clothed with stiff black pubescence ; antennae flavous ; 

 elytra black ; legs fulvous, posterior femora with an acute spine. 



Head with a small but deep fovea on the vertex, clothed 

 with stiff black hairs, labrum and palpi fulvous ; antennae reach to 

 the base of the elytra, the basal four joints shining, fulvous, the 

 others opaque, flavous, closely pubescent, transverse and dentate 

 on their upper margins. Thorax twice as broad as long, narrowed 

 in front, the posterior angles oblique, the anterior portion with a 

 narrow groove on each side ; the surface sparingly punctured, 

 clothed with stiff black pubescence. Scutellum flavous. Elytra 

 punctured and pubescent like the thorax. Beneath pale flavous, 

 clothed with yellow pubescence, the anterior tarsi black ; meta- 

 sternum raised on each side into a conical elevation. 



Length 8-10 mm. 



Hob. Burma: Shwegu. 



Both sexes possess a femoral spine but in the male this is longer 



