CLERIDAE PROM BURMAH 743, 



wide hatchet shaped apical joint. Pronotum not widened in front 

 fas in Hydnocera), with a constricted line near the front, the 

 sides lobed but not strongly below this constriction, with deep 

 oblique impressions, no basal constriction but the base margined. 

 Elytra confusedly, and strongly punctate, no trace of striae. 



Eyes large, finely facetted, pubescent, not cut out, the head 

 even between the eyes (very much as in Callimerus). 



This genus is more like Hydnocera than it is to Lemidia, 

 both of which it resembles. From the latter the structure of 

 the antennae, from Hydnocera (which I regard as exclusively 

 American) the capitulus of the antennae, distinctly two-jointed, 

 and with the joints about equal in size ; — the thorax not 

 constricted nor much narrowed behind, — the entire elytra, 

 and (I think) the shorter legs with shorter tarsi, at once sepa- 

 rate it. 



This genus is evidently allied to, and I believe is the Eastern 

 representative of the American genus Hydnocera. 



43. Neohytlnus despectus , n. sp. 



Nigro-piceus, nitidus; ore, palpis pedihusque flams, antennis fuscis 

 basi testaceis, elytris crebre fortiter punctatis. Long. 4 Vg-S millim. 



Hab. Bhamo (Fea). 



Pitchy-black, the apex of the elytra in one example, brownish; 

 antennae, palpi, labrum and legs, pale yellow, the basal and 

 apical joints of the antennae a little infuscate. Head a very 

 little wider than the thorax, with the eyes though large and 

 occupying the whole sides of the head, not so convex or pro- 

 minent as usual in Hydnocera, the crown smooth and im- 

 punctate, but clothed with a silvery white pubescence in front ; 

 thorax subquadrate with a deep oblique fossa on the sides, and 

 a second impression near the hind angles; elytra very even, 

 neither striate nor costate, thickly, evenly and deeply punctate, 

 the punctures stellate and becoming confluent at the apex. The 

 whole insect pubescent, but very short, soft and not abundant 

 pubescence only is to be found. 



Two specimens. 



