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the others ; the interstices are flat and impunctate ; placed near 

 the suture is a black longitudinal band which, although of variable 

 length, does not extend to the base or apex on each elytron. The 

 femora are armed with a very small tooth and like the underside 

 are fulvous, their apices and the tibia; and tarsi black ; claws bifid. 



Var. Entirely fulvous. 



Length 4 mm. 



Hob. Burma : Teinzo ; Bhamo. 



R. Umaculata may be known by the finely punctured stria? of 

 the elytra and the nearly impunctate thorax." 



073. Rhyparida assamensis, sp. n. 



Beneath piceous ; head and basal joints of antenna? fulvous ; 

 thorax black. Elytra black, a broad longitudinal band at the middle, 

 widened near the apex, fulvous. 



Broadly ovate, rather flattened. Head elongate, nearly im- 

 punctate, a small central fovea on the vertex ; clypeus separated 

 from the face by a shallow groove, widened in front, its anterior 

 edge tri-emarginate ; palpi slender, flavous ; antenna? filiform, 

 basal three or four joints fulvous, rest piceous, apex of each joint 

 paler. Thorax twice as broad as long, narrowed anteriorly, sides 

 strongly rounded at the middle, surface with a small fovea at sides, 

 impunctate, extreme anterior margin fulvous, rest black. Elytra 

 closely punctured in longitudinal stria, the interstices slightlv 

 convex. Intermediate and posterior pair of tibiae emarginate at 

 apex ; claws bifid. 



Length 5 mm. 



Hab. Assam : Patkai Mts. Type in Brit. Mus. 



674. Rhyparida quinquemaculata, Jac. P. Z. S. 1887, p. 75, pi. x, fig. 3. 



Kufous ; the last eight joints of the antennae and the legs black ; 

 thorax sparingly and finely punctured; elytra regularly punctate- 

 striate, a sutural spot at the middle, another at the shoulder, and 

 a third near the apex of each elytron, black ; femora toothed. 



Head with a deep fovea at the vertex, not visibly punctured ; 

 the clypeus separated from the face by a slight transverse depres- 

 sion. Antennae half the length of the body, black, the basal 

 three joints fulvous, the third and fourth joints slender, of equal 

 length, the following joints slightly depressed and shorter. Thorax 

 transversely convex, about three times as broad as long, the sides 

 rounded ; the surface rufous, very finely and sparingly punctured, 

 with a small obscure piceous spot at the sides. Elytra with a 

 distinct transverse depression below the base, the punctured striae 

 very distinct anteriorly, less so posteriorly ; each elytron with a 

 square-shaped spot at the shoulder, a triangular spot near the 

 apex, and a common sutural elongate spot near the middle, black. 

 Sides of the breast and the legs black : all the femora with a small 

 tooth ; claws bifid. 



Length 4 mm. 



Hob. Ceylon. 



