328 H. W. BATES 



in width near the apex, in the 9 they are alternately broader 

 and narrower, as in G. vulneripennis cf 9 . The basal joint of 

 the antennae is red. 



146. Gnathaphanus dispellens, Walker, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 

 (3) III, 1859, p. 51 (Harpalus) ; Anisodactylus dispellens. Bates, 

 ibid. (5) XVII, p. 75. 



Rangoon; Kawkareet (Tenasserim) ; Karin Asciuii Gheba, 

 alt. 1200-1300 m. ; Bhamò. 



A widely-distributed species in South Eastern Asia and its 

 islands. Examples from Sumatra have been communicated to me 

 by M. Ritsema, on the authority of M. René Oberthiir, as the 

 Trichoglottus punctilahris of Mac Leay {Harpalus, id., Annulosa 

 Javan., p. 20), to which M. Chaudoir apparently gave the ge- 

 neric name Trichoglottus the characters of which he did not live 

 to publish. But the species has all the essential characters of the 

 genus Gnathaphanus, MacL. as defined by Chaudoir ; 1 believe 

 the Harpalus punctilahris (MacL.) to be a superficially very 

 similar species of the true Harpalinae closely allied to Platyme- 

 topus and of similar wide distribution, including Java. 



147. Gnathaphanus acutipennis, n. sp. 



G. dispellenti simillimus, sed differt inter alia, thoracis angulis 

 posticis omnino rotundatis, elytrisque apice sinuatis versus su- 

 turam (c/ 9) acutis, nee obtuse conjunctim rotundatis. Elongato- 

 oblongus, aenescenti-niger subnitidus, antennis palpisque rufo- 

 testaceis. Caput post oculos gradatim (in G. dispellens cito) an- 

 gustatum convexum, politum, sutura frontali utrinque apud foveam 

 frontalem terminata. Mandibulae robustae, apice latae truncatae. 

 Labrum 6-porosum. Thorax elytris angustior, transversim qua- 

 dratus lateribus mediocriter curvatis, postice leviter angustatus, 

 angulis posticis omnmo rotundatis ; postice utrinque subtiliter 

 punctulatus. Elytra oblonga vix ovata, striata, interstitiis 9 plariis 

 tf^ paullulum convexis, apice et marginibus punctulatis 3.'° et 

 5.*° seriatim (juxta strias) punctatis — Long. 13 millim. cj^ V • 



Rangoon; Mandalay; Toungoo. 



