352 jMv. G. Lewis on some 



posteriorly more scattered, a fine median line is smooth and 

 terminates in a slight ridge behind the neck, the female has 

 the smooth line but no ridge, and the anterior angles are 

 more convex ; the elytra are punctured more finely than the 

 thorax ; the propygidium and pygidium are evenly, not 

 densely punctured, the latter is feebly convex in the female, 

 and less so in the male ; the prosternum closely and roughly 

 punctate, truncate at botli ends, lateral striae very strong, 

 joined anteriorly ; tlie mesosternura is less closely punctured 

 with similar stria behind the coxa3. 



This species is much more robust than T. Dohertf/i, Lew., 

 and there are no thoracic tubercles, the thoracic anterior angles 

 are not rectangular, but well rounded off, and the prosternal 

 lateral striae are much stronger. 



Hab. Burmah (Ruby Mines). 



Trypeticus prcedaceiis, sp. n. 



Cj'lindricus, brunneo-piceus, nitidus, undique punctatus ; fronte 



inter oculos minute foveolata ; propygidio utrinque prominulo. 

 L. 3-31 miU. 



Cylindrical, pitchy brown, shining, anterior angles of the 

 thorax reddish ; the head faintly punctured, and between the 

 eyes there is a small fovea in both sexes ; the snout in the 

 male is somewhat flat and triangular, but a little sinuous at 

 the sides, and a little wide at the apex, margined with a stria 

 which is best marked at the sides ; the female has the snout 

 concave, strife obsolete, and the apex is furnished with two 

 minute tubercles ; tlie tliorax somewhat densely punctured, 

 some punctures, csi)ecially those behind the anterior angle, 

 are ocellate, anterior angles in the male depressed and a 

 little acute close to the eyes, behind the neck a fine carina 

 occupies about one fourth of the length of the thorax, the 

 female anterior angles rounded off and not depressed ; the 

 elytra, punctuation distinctly finer than that of the thorax; 

 the propygidium rather densely punctured, projecting at the 

 sides; the pygidium is convex in the female, inipressed on 

 each side in the male, and in both sexes punctured like the 

 propygidium ; the prosternum iu the male is wider in front 

 than behind, sparsely punctured, punctures round and shal- 

 low, lateral stria? widen out a little anteriorly and do not join, 

 in the female the prosternum is truncate ; the mesosternum 

 agrees in both sexes, there is a lateral sulcus on each side 

 behind the coxa?, })unctures sparse and oblong; the mcta- 

 sternum has a meilian furrow, and is punctured like the 

 mesosternum ; the abdominal segments, punctures round and 



