PHYTOPHAGOUS COLEOPTERA FROM BURMA 875 



disappearing altogether near the apex, a few widely placed 

 punctures also accompany the lateral margin , the humeral 

 portion is occupied by a large subquadrate flavous patch which 

 extends downwards nearly to the middle but not to the suturai 

 margin, this patch is entirely impunctate and surrounded by a 

 darker margin ; legs and underside clothed with fine yellowish 

 pubescence. 



Garin Gheba 1000-1100 meter, December 1888. 



Of this pretty little species, which somewhat resembles C. sca- 

 pularis/Bslj, two specimens were obtained ; they are of a dark 

 chestnut-colour and may be at once recognized by the pale 

 yellow patch which occupies the shoulders. 



9. Temnaspis flavicornis, n. sp. 



Reddish fulvous, the antennae flavous, the four anterior tibiae 

 and all the tarsi, black ; thorax very sparingly punctured ; elytra 

 black, shining, finely punctured and clothed with black pubes- 

 cence. 



Length 5 lines. 



Of rather robust and broad shape, reddish falvous, the head 

 remotely punctured at the vertex , closely near the eyes spa- 

 ringly clothed with black erect hairs, the clypeus transversely 

 subquadrate, with a transverse sulcation, the apex of the man- 

 dibles black , antennae flavous , extending to the base of the 

 elytra, the first four joints shining, the others opaque, of silky 

 appearance and very strongly flattened and widened ; thorax 

 narrowed towards the apex, the posterior angles raised into a 

 blunt tubercle , the disc rather depressed at the middle , very 

 sparingly punctured and pubescent; scutellum fulvous, its apex 

 truncate; elytra slightly constricted towards the middle, the 

 shoulders very prominent and obliquely shaped , the surface 

 shining, black with similar coloured pubescence and finely punc- 

 tured ; the posterior femora with two stout teeth , the outer 

 margin of the tibiae and the tarsi, black, metasternum raised 

 at each side into a conical protuberance. 



