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internal stria of the thorax is much abbreviated behind and 

 ceases anteriorly at a point behind the eye ; the 4 first elytral 

 striae are complete and well marked, the fifth is two thirds 

 the length of the elytra, the suturai longer and arched, each 

 end of it turning away from the suture; the pygidium is very 

 lightly punctulate, and the fore tibia is very conspicuously pro- 

 duced outwards at the tarsal end. The last character will serve 

 to separate it at once from the other species named. 

 Taken at Bhamò, Birmania in August 1886. 



34. Hister philippensis, Mars. Mon. 1845, p. 547, t. 9 fig. 18. 

 Bhamò in Birmania. Twenty four examples. 



35. Hister bipustulatus, Fab. Syst. El. I, p. 87. — Mars. Mon. 



1854, p. 581, t. 10, fig. 141. 



About 10 examples have been taken at Bhamò, Birmania, 

 April. 



All the specimens taken by Signor Leonardo Fea are wholly 

 black. 



36. Hister torquatus, Mars. Mon. 1854, p. 587, t. 10, fig. 146. 

 Shwegoo-Myo, Birmania. Four specimens. 



37. Paromalus oblisus, Lewis, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. XV, 



p. 466, 1885. 



Taken at Shwegoo-Myo and Bhamò in Birmania; twelve 

 specimens. 



This series enables me to say that the females of this insect 

 has no abdominal tubercle and that the pygidium has two 

 elongate loop-like sulci, which are longitudinal and somewhat 

 parallel to each other with a narrow space between them. 



38. Paromalus commeatus, Lewis, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. XVI, 



p. 466. 

 There is a single example from Bhamò which is apparently 

 referable to this species , but the mesosternal stria is not sym- 

 metrical , being deformed. Motschulsky gives 2 V 4 mill, for his 



