312 H. W. BATES 



et apice exceptis nigris testaceo-rufis. Caput sparse punctatum 

 et leviter rugulosum. Thorax subqiiadratus, paullo ante medium 

 leviter rotundatus, deinde minusquam antice angustatus; spar- 

 sissime punctulatus, basi et apice medio striatus, linea dorsali 

 profonde impressa, fovei basalibus latis et profundis. Elytra valde 

 elongata postico perparum ampliata, tenuiter punctulato-striata, 

 interstitiis 1-8 anguste costatis laevibus, sed utrinque prope strias 

 ((/ 9 ) seriato-punctulatis. Subtus sericeo-niger; prosterno antice 

 meso- et metasternis ventrisque lateribus punctulatis. Antennae 

 tenues, articulo 3J° quam 4.*" fere longiori sparse longe piloso. 

 — Long. 24 millim. e/' 9 . 



Bhamò. 



The species is still more closely allied to the Chinese C. co- 

 stiger (Chaud.) in colours being nearly the same as the variety 

 with brilliant green head and thorax which occurs on the upper 

 Yang-tsze and in Cochin China, from which C Bhamoensis differs 

 in little except the colours of the legs. 



104. Chlaenius nigricoxis, Motschulsky, Bull. Mosc. 1864, II, 

 p. 339; Chaud., Monogr. d. Chlén., p. 94. 



Bhamò; Palon ; Karin Chebà alt. 900-1100. 



Agrees with Motschulskys' description, founded on examples 

 from Hong Kong, in all respects except size, which however 

 this author is well known often to mis-state. He gives " 9 ^/^ 

 lin. ; " the Birmese specimens measure from 24 to 26 millim. 

 1 have an example from Laos collected by Mouhot, and another 

 from Java received together with C. femoratus (Dej.). The 

 species though so similar in size and colours to C. costiger and 

 C. femoratus and agreeing with the latter C. Bhamoensis in the 

 colour of the legs, is strikingly different in the nearly flat, mi- 

 nutely and densely punctured elytral interstices and in the 

 aeneous-black head. 



105. Chlaenius annulipes, n. sp. 



Quoad colores C. nigricoxi (Motsch.) simillimus, sed valde 

 differt elytrorum margine humerali angulato etc. Elongatus, 



