Ipitfcfe and Platyyiodldx from India and Burma. 4 17 



brown. Prothorax widest in the middle, with a regularly 

 and closely granulate surface, not pubescent except at the 

 base of the well-marked longitudinal median line, (ScutcHum 

 rounded, pubescent, with some minute longitudinal scratches. 

 Elytra wider than the prothorax and more than twice as long, 

 laterally sinuous, being broadened behind the middle and 

 separately curved at the base ; surface striate, the striaj 

 narrow and shiny, interrupted at short intervals by transverse 

 ridges, interstices thickly clothed with dense dusky short 

 hairs, convex, and granulate ; tarsi lighter in colour than the 

 other joints of the legs. 



Very closely allied to H. lewisi, Blandf., but narrower and 

 longer, with a more developed rostrum, darker in colour, 

 which is also uniform throughout, the elytral apex more 

 acuminate, aud the anteunal club dark. 



Platypus snffodiens, sp. n. 



c? . Fuscus, antennis tarsisque flavis; fronte concava, valde 

 punctata, prothorace subquadrato, apice punctis rnagnis irregu- 

 lariter dispersis et juxta post illos, punctorum parvorum con- 

 gerie ornato ; basi utrinque punctis nonnullis instructo ; elytris 

 profuude sulcatis, sulcis obsolete punctatis, interstitiis nitidis, 

 3° basi punctato, depressione postica subconvexa. 



Long. 4-8 mm. 



$ . Fuscus, fronte concava, admodum nitida, minutissime reticulata, 

 prothorace ei maris simili, sed punctorum congerie majore ornato ; 

 elytris sulcatis, interstitiis nitidis, 3° basi granulato. 



Long. 5 mm. 



Loc. Lower Burma {E, P. Stebbing). 



Male. — Front concave, roughly punctured and slightly 

 hairy, the anterior hall' is paler than the posterior in some 

 specimens, and there is a shallow central depression ; the 

 prothorax is subquadrate, with a number of large punctures 

 placed irregularly along the anterior edge, immediately 

 behind which there is a small patch of longitudinally 

 elongate and confluent punctuations (in some cases this 

 patch is separated longitudinally into two smaller oiks), 

 close behind which a shallow median groove extends longi- 

 tudinally to the base, the remainder of the prothoracic 

 BUrface is only very slightly punctured; the elytral furrows 

 are deep and roughened, whilst the interstices are shining 

 but also minutely punctured, the first is continued to the 

 apex, becoming granular before the declivity, the second 

 ceases before the depression, whilst the third is extended 

 horizontally into a short blunt spine and, together with the 



