HISTERIDAE FROM BURMA 631 



fungi and Trypanaeus bombacis Lewis, an insect which haunts 

 the trees infected with wood-boring Coleoptera, are also inte- 

 resting species. An allied species to the latter occurs in the 

 Andaman islands, and probably many species of Trypanaeus 

 will sooner or later be found in India. The Paromali of the se- 

 ries have been difficult to deal with because it has not always 

 been possible to pair the sexes. This remark applies chiefly to 

 the examples labelled Paromalus oceanitis <?- Several of the 

 species also have the sternal striae formed on a common plan, 

 so that the sculpture on the underside of the species, has 

 not lightened the difficult in discriminating the males. Amongst 

 them, however, there is one very remarkable species P. Feae, 

 which has the prosternum traversed across the middle by a 

 sulcus which divides the anterior lobe from the base and the 

 lobe is strongly reflexed. These last two characters are to be 

 seen , but in a minor degree, in the European Histerid Satrapes 

 talyschensis Reitter. 



1. Hololepta indica, Erichs. Jahrb. 1834, p. 90. — Mars. Mon. 



1853, p. 152, t. 4, fig. 10. 

 orientali^, Sturm. Cat. 1826, p. 123. 

 batchiana, Mars. Mon. 1860, p. 588, t. II, fig. 2, 

 n. syn. 

 Birmania: Shwegoo-Myo, October 1885, Bhainò, June 1886. 

 Tenasserim : Thagatà, April 1887. Thirty five specimens. 



2. Hololepta baulnyi, Mars. Mon. 1857, p. 399, t. 10, nr. 2, 



fig. 9. 

 Found in Tenasserim at Thagatà in April 1887. Unique. 

 Not rare in the Eastern Archipelago. 



3. Hololepta procera, Erichs. Jahrb. 1834, p. 91. — Mars. 



Mon. 1853, p. 189, t. 4, fig. 30. 

 subarmata^ Dej. cat. 3 ed., p. 144. 

 One specimen from Tenasserim (Thagatà), April 1887. 

 This is a common Javan species. 



