THE AN NA L8 



AND 



MAGAZhNE OF iNATURAL HISTORY. 



[NINTH SIHRIES.] 

 No. 28. APRIL 1920. 



XLV. — A List of the Endomychid Coleoptera of ludo-China^ 

 wHh Descriptions of new Species. By Gilbert J. Akkow, 

 F.Z.S., F.E.S. 



(Published by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.) 



Amongst the extensive collections of Coleoptcra from tlie 

 jnoviiice of Tonkin and the Upper Mekong River sent to me 

 by Monsieur R. Vitalis de Salvaza, who lias so greatly increased 

 our knowledge of the insect fauna of that region, is an 

 important series belonffiug to the beautiful and interesting 

 fimgus-feeding family Endomychidte, a very large proportion 

 of which were previously unknown and are here described. 

 All the types are in the British Museum, which is greatly 

 indebted to the collector for this valuable iiddition to the 

 collection. 



Up to the present time not more than two or three species 

 of Endomychidse in all have been recorded from Indo-(Jliina, 

 altliough Gorham's enumeration of those found in Burmn, 

 published in the Annals of the Genoa Museum for- \H\)Ci 

 (vol. xxxvi.), amounts to twenty-nine. This iiunibcr is 

 exceeded in the list which follows, which includes no less 

 than seventeen species hitherto entirely unknown. 



Spnthomeles decoratus, Gerst. This striking insect is 

 abundant at Luang Prabang on the Upper AJekong. 

 Ann. (& Mag. N. Hist. ,Ser. 9. Vol. v. 22 



