316 On Cohopttra of the Ce/jws Azarelius. 



Lengtli 4 mm. 



ILih. Burma': Karen Mts. {Doherty). Two specimens 

 in tlie British Museum. 



This species is very ch^se to scicIptico^H^, Fairra., from 

 Sumatra. It differs in its smaller size, its longer and more 

 slender antenna? (in sculpticollis the latter are scarcely longer 

 than the head and thorax togetiier, and all tlie joints except 

 the first and third are more or less transverse), and these two 

 differ from tlie other described species in their less compact 

 anteniiai, the joints of which are plainly punctured and 

 sparsely setose, in their subopaque surface, with the cariiire, 

 both thoracic and elytral, plainly punctate, as well as iu the 

 densely lugosely punctate intervals of the thorax. 



Azarelius oberthilri, Wasm. 



Of this species the British Museum possesses one of the 

 original examples taken by Fea at Palon, Pegu, Aug. and 

 Sept. 1887. It possesses characters not noticed by Wasmann 

 eitlier in liis figure or description, viz., the fifth costate inter- 

 stice is abbreviated a little beyond the middle of the elytron, 

 and the Sf^venth and eightli costse are coiifluent and con- 

 tinued together for some little distance before the apex. A 

 specimen from the Shan States, 1888^ otherwise similar, has 

 the fifth costa continued on to the declivity and the seventh 

 and. eighth not confluent before the apex. Having only the 

 two specimens before me, I hesitate to describe this as new, 

 since the peculiarities of the Palon sj)ecimen may possibly 

 be merely individual. 



Azarelius hryanti, sp. n. 



Very similar to ohertlniri, Wasm., but mucli more nitid. The 

 thoracic costne are more tumid, the interspaces in the anterior 

 half shining and almost free of punctures, but in the poste- 

 rior half they have a few large indistinct punctures. The 

 antennae are very nitid, stouter than in ohert/rilri, joints 7—10 

 more strongly transverse. The cosfse of the elytra are more 

 strongly raised, more nitid, and nos. 7 and 8 are united for 

 about the last quarter of their length ; the fourth costa is 

 extremely short, not extending beyond the second puncture 

 of the fourth interstice. 



Length 5 mm. 



Bab. Sarawak: Matang, 3. xii. 13 {G. E. Bryant). 



A single specimen was brought back by j\lr. Bryant from 

 his recent trip to Borneo, and this he has generously pre- 

 sented to the British Museum. 



