284 ^Ir. II. E. Andrewos on Oriental Cmubidae. 



OMii witli them. At tlic time I considered them distinct, 

 but the acquisition of further niatci'ial both from India and 

 Indo-China leads me to think that we have in reality to do 

 with one species only. I have dissected examples from 

 Tonkin and Calcutta, and find all the buccal orjians — ratlier 

 vai'iable in this {^cmis — to l)e exactly similar. The mcntum 

 has rounded lohcs. with two setie in the emargination ; the 

 lignla is narrow, dilated at apex, and separated by a very 

 slight notch from the paraglossoB, which are unusually long 

 and narrow, extending far beyond ligula, and fringed on the 

 inner side with minute setnc; the mandibles are edentate, 

 the left one slightly dilated on inner margin at middle. 

 Bates indicated that in this species the head was much 

 laiger in the ? than in the (^ — 1 am not able to confirm 

 this. 



Dejean's type was believed to come from the " Indes 

 Orientales." Chaudoir's specimen came from Chusau, 

 Mr. Lesne's from Siam, and 13atcs records examples from 

 l*alon in Buima, Osaka in Japan, and Mytho in Cochin- 

 Chiua. This last specimen is now in Mr. Fleutiaux's collection, 

 iilong with others from Saigon, Vinh-long, and Long Xuyen 

 (Do7r), all in Cochin-China, and from Cho-Gauh in Tonkin 

 {Diijjort). Mr. Ix. Yitalis de Salvaza has lately taken it at 

 Quang-Yen in Tonkin, Muong Pek in Laos, and Fnomli- 

 Penh in Cambodia. In the British Museum there are ex- 

 amples from India and Java ; in the Brussels Museum from 

 Lao Kay in Tonkin and Mt. Ocngaran in Central Java 

 (A. Koller) ; in the Paris INIuseum from Cochin-China 

 (^Harmand), Hanoi in Tonkin \^lJr. JViet and V. Laboissiere), 

 China (Callery), and Java ; and in the Indian Museum from 

 Kashmir (H. T. Pease), Calcutta, Birbhum and Murshidabad 

 in Bengal, and Bangalore in Mysore. 



Diplochila IcEvis, Lesue, Bull. ]\Ius. Paris, ii. 1896, p. 243, 

 fig. 6 ; id. Miss. Pavie Hist. Nat. 1904, p. 72, t. 8. f. 8 ; 

 Bouch. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1903, p. 171. 



I may add to the description of the author that the lobes 

 of the mcntum are bluntly pointed at apex, and that there 

 are two long settc at the middle of the sinus ; the ligula is 

 very narrow, dilated at apex, with a deep notch between it 

 and the paraglossie ; the left njandiblc has a deep indentation 

 on the inner margin, the right one a l)lunt tooth. 



Described by its author from Siam and Java, this species 

 lias since been recorded by Mr. Bouchard from Sumatra and 

 Borneo. In Mr. Fleutiaux's collection there are specimens 



