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milar manner. I doubt whether this difference is more than an 

 individual variation, especially as I have seen an example from 

 Siam, the country of Chaudoir's type specimen, which has a 

 precisely similar punctuation. Tlie size of Signor Fea's specimens 

 is 29 millim. 



74. Epicosmus mandarinus, Schaum. , Ann. S. E. Fr., 1853, 

 p. 436 ; Chaud., Essai Monogr. s. 1. Panagéides, p. 33. 



Mandalay. 



The single examples offers no difference worthy of note from 

 others with which I have compared it from Hong Kong and 

 the Island of Formosa. I have a similar example also from Siam. 



75. Epicosmus breviformis, n. sp. 



Parum elongatus, elytris ovatis convexis. Niger, elytris ma- 

 culisutrinque citrinis subquadratis duabus, 1.-^ subhumerali inter 

 strias 5 et 9 (interdum usque ad marginem extus dilatata), 2."'' 

 anteapicali inter strias 3 et 8 vel 4 et 8. Caput breve et latum, 

 fronte grosse punctato-rugosa, oculis valde prominentibus. Thorax 

 subhexagonus, angulis lateralibus rotundatis; mediocriter conve- 

 xus, lateribus dilatatis perparum reHexis, margine basali fere recto, 

 prope angulos vix obliquato, angulis fere rectis breviter dentatis; 

 toto aequaliter confluenter punctate, opaco. Elytra comparate 

 brevia, ovata, profunde crenulato -striata, interstitiis convexis hand 

 dense sed aequaliter punctulatis. Epistema postica brevia, qua- 

 drata. Segmenta ventralia antice baud crenulata. Tarsi lineares. 

 — Long. 12-13 millim. 



Karin Gheba alt. 900-1100 m. Palon (Pegu). Thagatà (Tenas- 



serim). 



76. Epicosmus mandarinelius, n. sp. 



Quoad formam E. mandarino (Schaum) simillimus, sed multo 

 minor. Caput ante oculos brevissimum, oculis valde prominenti- 

 bus; epistomate convexo, laeve, sutura frontale nulla, fronte sat 

 plana intricato-punctata. Thorax ab angulis anticis (juxta collum) 

 usque longe ultra medium sub curvatim ampliatus (angulo ro- 



