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the apex. Underside and legs fulvous, tarsi black, posterior 

 femora strongly incrassate, unarmed ( $ ?) 



Length 9 mm. 



Hob. Burma : Momeit. 



Differs from T. nigroplagiata, Jac. in the number and position 

 of the elytral spots. 



169. Temnaspis assaniensis, sp. n. 



Flavous ; antennae, two spots on head and some small spots on 

 sides of thorax, shoulders and an elongate spot at middle of elytra, 

 black ; sides of breast, a femoral spot and tarsi black. 



Surface clothed with black stiff hairs mixed with fulvous 

 shorter pubescence ; head closely punctured near eyes, a black spot 

 at base and middle ; antennae black, basal joint flarous below. 

 Thorax subquadrately transverse, bisulcate, sides with a black spot 

 at anterior angles, a longitudinal depression at each side, surface 

 nearly impunctate. Elytra, finely and somewhat closely punctured ; 

 posterior femora with a small tooth below and a large elongate 

 black spot on outer side. 



Length 7| mm. 



Hob. Assam (Coll. Jacoby}. 



Of nearly similar coloration as T. downesi, Baly, but smaller, the 

 head more finely and sparingly punctured, the thorax impunctate, 

 and the elytra much more remotely punctured, the tarsi black. 



Genus COLOBASPIS. 



Colobaspis, Fairm. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxxviii, 1894, p. 225. 

 Pcecilomorpha (part.), Westwood, Baly, Jacoby. 



Type, C.favonigra, Fairm., from Tibet. 

 Range. India ; China ; Africa. 



Most of the characters like those of Temnaspis, but the thorax 

 with a more or less strongly marked tooth at sides near base. 



170. Colobaspis nigriceps, Baly (Temnaspis), A. M. N. H. (3) iii, 



18-59, p. 207. 



Rufo-fulvous, pubescent ; head and pleurae nigro-piceous ; the 

 lower portion of the face, the antennae, thorax, the anterior and 

 intermediate femora, the tibiae and tarsi flavous ; elytra purplish- 

 black, a spot at the apex fulvous. 



Head coarsely punctured, front impressed between the eyes with 

 a deep fovea, shining black ; lower portion of face and the antennae 

 yellow, the latter more than half the length of the body, basal 

 four joints shining, sparingly covered with long hairs, the rest 

 covered with a short, adpressed concolorous pile. Thorax broader 

 than long, subcylindrical, sides slightly rounded, constricted at 

 the extreme base and front, produced near the former into an 

 indistinct protuberance, above sinning yellow, grooved at the apex 

 and narrowly so at the extreme base, anterior groove dilated and 



