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long, moderately lobed and sulcate behind, the entire surface with a 

 very dense coarse punctuation, which becomes confluent and rugose 

 towards the sides, the side margin behind the middle slightly raised 

 and smooth. Elytra strongly costate along the centre, depressed and 

 striated near the suture, punctured at the base and sides, slightly 

 rounded at the apex. Pygidium convex, coarsely strigose and rugose. 

 Under side strigose and with coarse semicircular punctures on the 

 abdomen ; mesosternal process narrow and obtuse ; anterior tibiaa 

 with two strong lateral teeth. In the male the abdomen is slightly 

 impressed, and the posterior tibiae are keeled, slightly curved, and 

 with dense long golden pile on the inner side. The female is less 

 opaque above, and has the Y-form thoracic mark widely interrupted 

 in the middle. Length, 15-17 mm. 



Khasia Hills and N. Manipur, Assam (coll. Janson). 



Allied to T. zehrcea, Fairm., but with the clypeus broader, 

 more rounded, and less deeply notched, the thorax much broader, 

 the elytra less rounded at the apex, the markings different, and, 

 in the male, with the abdomen more Hgbtly impressed, and the 

 posterior tibiae of a different form. 



CURRENT NOTES. 

 By G. W. Kirkaldy. 



1. MiYAKE, T. : " Description of a New Species of the Genus 

 Latirostrum, with Remarks on the Generic Character and 

 the Significance of the Long Palpi," Bull. Coll. Agr. Tokyo, 

 viii. 149-51, 1 fig. (April, 1909). Lepidoptera. 



2. Id. : " A Revision of the Arctianse of Japan," op. cit. 153-74, 

 figs. 1-6 (April, 1909). Lepidoptera. 



3. Japha, a. : " Die Trutzstellung des Abendpfauenauges " 

 {Smermthiis ocellatus L.), Zool. Jahrb. Abt. Syst. xvii. 321-8, 

 pi. 12. Coleoptera, Lepidoptera. 



4. KosMiNSKY, P. : " Einwirking iiusserer Einfiiisseauf Schmet- 

 terlinge," op. cit. 361-90, pis. 13-7. Lepidoptera. 



5. Blunk, H. : " Farbimgsvariation bei Dytiscus marginalis, 

 Linn.," Zool. Anz. xxxiv. 337-45 (June 1, 1909). Coleoptera. 



6. Davis, W. T. : "Owl Pellets and Insects," Journ. New York 

 Ent. Soc. xvii. 49-51 (June, 1909). Coleoptera. 



7. LovELL, J. H. : " The Colour Sense of the Honey Bee —Is 

 Conspicuousness an Advantage to Flowers ? " Amer. Nat. 

 xliii. 338-49 (June, 1909). Hymenoptera. 



8. EwART, A. J. : " The Negative Phototaxis of Blowfly Larvae," 

 Victorian Nat. xxiv. 61-2 (July, 1907). Diptera. 



9. Jacobson, E. "Notes on Web-spinning Ants," op. cit. 36-8 

 (June, 1907). Hymenoptera. 



10. Daw, R. P. : " On the Origin of Entomological Names," 

 Journ. New York Ent. Soc. xvii. 51-6 (June, 1909). 



