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283. Diapromorpha obscuromaculata, ep. n. 



Obscure dark fulvous ; head, the basal portion of the thorax, the 

 underside and legs black ; elytra with a humeral spot and a trans- 

 verse band behind the middle black. 



Broad and robust. The head very minutely punctured, a band 

 of short pubescence in front of the eyes ; clypeus feebly emarginate ; 

 palpi fulvous ; antennae with the basal four joints fulvous, the 

 succeeding five blackish, strongly transversely serrate, the rest in 

 the type and only specimen wanting. Thorax more than twioe as 

 broad as long, narrowed anteriorly, the sides strongly deflexed, lateral 

 margins feebly rounded, median lobe very short ; surface with an 

 oblique depression at each side, the interior of which is distinctly 

 punctured, other punctures placed near the basal margin, the 

 basal portion black, this colour in shape as of a transverse band, 

 widened at each side, rest of the surface dark fulvous. Scutellum 

 black. Elytra narrowed posteriorly, very closely and rather finely 

 punctured ; the humeral lobes very prominent ; the transverse 

 band rather broad, not quite extending to either margin. Body 

 beneath closely pubescent. 



Length 8 mm. 



Hah. Burma (Coll. Jacdby). 



As in D. burmanica the obscureness of the markings and darkness 

 of the ground-colour in the specimen before me is probably caused 

 by discoloration. 



284. Diapromorpha pinguis, Lacord. Mon. Phytoph. ii, 1848, p. 234. 



Black; thorax with a subquadrate flavous patch at anterior 

 angles ; elytra flavous, a transverse band before and another 

 behind the middle, black. 



d 1 . Short, cylindrical and robust. Head finely rugose and pubes- 

 cent between the eyes, a transverse sinuate groove below vertex, 

 the latter finely punctured and convex ; 

 antennae slightly shorter than the thorax, 

 second and third joints fulvous. Thorax 

 about twice as broad as long, subcylindrical, 

 slightly narrowed in front, feebly rounded 

 at the sides, basal margin straight, median 

 lobe short and truncate ; surface entirely 

 impunctate, the black colour extends in 

 shape of a transverse band across the base, 

 its middle advancing into a point on to 

 the anterior margin. Scutellum rather 

 Fig. 59. Diapromorpha large. Elytra moderately lobed at sides 

 pinguis. very finely nearly obsoletely punctured, 



with a slight greenish tint on the flavous 

 ground-colour ; the first band below base interrupted by the suture 



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