PHYTOPHAGOUS COLEOPTERA FROM BURMA 909 



54. Heteraspis par-viila, n. sp. 



Bluish-black, pubescent, elytra violaceous or obscure aeneous, 

 basal joints of the antennae fulvous , thorax transverse , very 

 finely punctured, elytra a little more strongly and very closely 

 punctured. 



Length 2 ^4 lines. 



Head flat without any depression, very finely punctured, la- 

 brum and palpi fulvous , mandibles black , antennae slender , 

 extending to half the length of the elytra, the lower five joints 

 fulvous, the rest black, scarcely thickened ; thorax strongly trans- 

 verse, more than twice as broad as long, the sides nearly straight, 

 anterior angles acute but not produced , the surface extremely 

 finely and closely punctured sparingly clothed with greyish 

 pubescence, black ; elytra scarcely wider at the base than the 

 thorax, the shoulders very prominent, the punctuation slightly 

 stronger anteriorly than that of the thorax but getting finer 

 towards the apex, the colour violaceous or aeneous, clothed with 

 whitish not very long hairs, intermixed with stiff black longer 

 hairs ; intermediate tibiae emarginate at the apex. 



Garin Gheba, December. 



//. parvula is smaller than most of its congeners and differs 

 in the scarcely thickened antennae , the strongly transverse 

 thorax and its very fine punctuation; in one specimen the legs 

 are nearly entirely dark fulvous. 



55. Heteraspis nitida, n. sp. 



Metallic green , pubescent , the antennae (the basal joints 

 excepted) and the tarsi black, thorax extremely closely and 

 regularly punctured, elytra less closely but not more strongly 

 punctured, clothed with white pubescence. 



Length 2 ^2 lines. 



Head very finely and closely punctured, covered with white 

 and longer black hairs, palpi fulvous; antennae rather slender, 



