HISPIDAE FROM BURMA 665 



Vertex opake ; antennae more than half the length of the 

 body, slender, slightly thickened towards the apex, the basal 

 joint unarmed. Thorax near the middle of each lateral margin 

 with a narrow plate or process, the edges of which are armed 

 with nine long , acute spines ; in addition is a tenth spine , 

 which is produced almost directly upwards from the inner 

 part of the dorsal surface of the plate ; above opake , finely 

 granulose-rugose, impressed here and there with large shallow 

 punctures ; just in front of the basal margin is a faint transverse 

 depression ; a second still less defined , runs across the middle 

 disk ; surface sparingly clothed with short adpressed scale like 

 white hairs. Elytra oblong, margined on the sides and apex 

 with a number of long, acute spines ; upper surface strongly and 

 coarsely punctured , the punctures arrangeu in longitudinal 

 rows, which are less regularly placed on the hinder half of 

 the outer disk ; disk of each elytron with three longitudinal 

 rows (5 in each) of strong, acute spines. Thighs unarmed. 



31. Hispa reticulata , n. sp. 



Anguste oblonga, nigra, nitida, antennis apice attenualis, articulo 

 basali spina valida armato; thorace transverso, lateribus rotundatis, 

 bispinosis, spina antica bifida; dorso basi transversim sulcato, 

 apice spinis bifidis duabus armato, disco elevato-reticulato , pube 

 brevi subsquamiformi adpressa sparse vestito; elytris oblongis, late- 

 ribus spinosis; disco fortiler punctato-striatis, utrisque spinis validis, 

 in seriebus longitudinalibus tribus regulariter dispositis, armatis ; 

 femoribus subtus unispinosis. Long. 2 1 / 2 Un. 



Hab. Burmah: Teinzò, a single specimen. 



Front finely rugose; antennae less than half the length of 

 the body , attenuated towards the apex , the basal joint armed 

 with a long spine. Thorax broader than long; sides rounded, 

 converging anteriorly towards the apex, armed with two strong 

 spines, the first placed just before the middle, bifid, the second 

 situated halfway between the middle and the base, simple; the 

 anterior angle armed with a short subacute tooth ; upper sur- 



