272 H. W. BATES 



9. Distichus recti Irons, n. sp. 



D. lucidulo (Chaud.) proxime affinis, sed certe differt capite 

 antice rotundato-dilatato epistomateque medio recto nee bidenti- 

 culato. Fusco-rufus. Caput latum, ante ocuios latior ibique lateri- 

 bus rotundato-dilatatis, usque post ocuios (medio vertice sublaevi) 

 rugosum , occipite punctato , medio vertice et prope angulos 

 anticos laeve, epistomate lato recte truncato, medio emarginato 

 absque denticulis sed rugulato prope labri margines, panilo pro- 

 ducto. Mandibulae laeves. Thorax parum transversus, angulis 

 anticis productis, postice leviter angustatus angulis posticis grosse 

 dentatis, deinde recte angustatus, dorso punctulato, toto basi 

 declivis et granulato. Elytra corpore anteriori paullulum breviora, 

 oblonga dorso antico leviter depressa valde striata, interstitiis 

 convexis 3'° poris setiferis 4 basi subrecta, prope basin granulata 

 et tuberculata, striis obliteratis, angulis humeralibus acute den- 

 tatis. Tibiae anticae supra dentes bidenticulatae ; intermediae 

 unispinosae et valde denticulatae. — Long. 11 mill. 



Bhamò; Kathà. 



10. Scarites sulcatus, Olivier, Ent. Til, N.° 36, p. 7, pi. 1, fig. 11; 

 Chaudoir, Monogr. d. Scaritides, 1880 (Ann. S. E. Belg. t. XXIII), 

 p. 80. 



Bhamò. A widely-distributed species; India, China, Formosa, 

 and Java. 



11. Scarites semirugosus, Chaudoir, Bull. Mosc. 1855, 1, p. 90; 



id. Monog. d. Scarit. 1880 (Ann. S. E. Belg. XXIII), p. 82. 



Toungoo. One example, belonging to the var. rugipennis of 

 Chaudoir. 



12. Scarites barbarus, Dej. Spec. Gén. Col. I, p. 388; Chaudoir, 

 Mongr. d. Scaiit. 1880 (Ann. S. E. Belg. XXIII) p. 96. 



Rangoon and Moulmein. Chaudoir gives Dacca (^) (Bengal) as 



(') Chaudoir says " du Deccan, " a serious geographical error which occurs in 

 innumerable places troughout his writings. The collection from which he obtained 

 a large selection in London and from which I also obtained many of the same 

 species, was made near Dacca. The mistaken name was given by the dealer who 

 supplied the specimens. 



