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and slightly by the lateral margins, the second near the apex, 

 entire. 



Var. "Elytral bands very narrow, anterior band more or less 

 triangular, posterior band interrupted at the sides." (Lacordaire.} 



Length 8 mm. 



Hab. India ; Assam. 



285. Diapromorpha melanocephala, Jac. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, 



xxxii, 1892, p. 878. 



Black ; basal joints of antennae, thorax and elytra fulvous, the 

 latter with an obscure piceous humeral spot. 



Head black, shining, itnpunctate, finely strigose and distinctly 

 triangularly depressed between the eyes ; antennae black, not 

 extending to base of thorax ( 2 ?), basal four joints fulvous, second 

 and third joints very small. Thorax twice as broad as long, 

 narrowed in front, sides deflexed, lateral margins straight, medial 

 lobe rounded, surface entirely impunctate. Scutellum broad, 

 pointed at apex, basal portion fulvous, apex black. Elytra sub- 

 cylindrical, lateral lobes feeble ; disc with irregular rows of tine 

 punctures which are double near the lateral margins ; pygidium 

 black, free, finely punctured. Body beneath clothed with yellowish 

 pubescence. First joint of posterior tarsi as long as the following 

 two joints united. 



Length 8 mm. 



Hab. Burma : Karennee. Type in Genoa Mus. 



Near D. melanopus but larger, elytral lobes not strongly produced, 

 puncturatiou finer and partly geminate. 



286. Diapromorpha fourmanica, 8 p. n. 



Obscure fulvous above, beneath black ; thorax with indistinct 

 bands of black at base and sides ; elytra irregularly punctured, 

 an obscure transverse band at base and the apical portion black. 



Broad and subcylindrical. Head with bands of pubescence near 

 the eyes ; elypeus finely longitudinally strigose ; vertex convex ; 

 antennae dark fulvous, the fourth and following joints strongly 

 serrate. Thorax strongly transverse, lateral margins rounded, 

 median lobe broadly but feebly produced ; the surface entirely 

 impunctate, very shining, the greater portion of the base and sides 

 black, the rest obscure fulvous, both colours more or less confluent 

 and indistinct. Scutellum black. Elytra rather feebly lobed at 

 the base, very closely finely and irregularly punctured, apex nearly 

 impunctate ; of the fulvous portion only the base, a lateral space 

 at middle and a small sutural spot near the apex are visible, all 

 the rest is black, very indistinctly separated from the ground-colour. 

 Body closely pubescent. The last abdominal segment deeply trian- 

 gularly emargiuate at apex ( 2 ). 



Length 8 mm. 



Hab. Burma (Coll. Jacoby) ; Tharrawaddy, var. (CM. Andrewes}. 



