PHYTOPHAGOUS COLEOPTERA FROM BURMA 955 



nearly equal ; thorax quite one half broader than long, the sides 

 strongly rounded and widened before the middle, the anterior 

 angles distinct, the surface deeply transversely grooved, entirely 

 impunctate, black ; scutellum black ; elytra closely punctured in 

 irregular double rows, nearly white, the base with a transverse 

 black band scarcely occupying one third the length of the elytra; 

 near the suture of each elytron below^ the middle is a short but 

 stout curved hook of white colour, followed by a shallow de- 

 pression ; underside black, the apex of the femora and the under 

 surface of the tibiae , whitish , the abdominal segments of the 

 same colour at the sides, last segment trilobate; claws appen- 

 diculate. 



Garin Gheba. 



The female of this singularly structured species, of which only 

 a single apparently male specimen is before me, is probably 

 without the elytral hook-like appendage. 



118. F*ai'i<iea, nig-ripennis , n. sp. 



Black, the head, antennae, thorax and legs flavous, elytra 

 semi-regularly punctate-striate anteriorly, black, the extreme 

 lateral margins and the apex, as well as the last abdominal 

 segment, flavous. 



9 . Elytra entirely, black, abdomen flavous. 



Length 2 Vo"^ lines. 



c/. Head impunctate, flavous, antennae flavous, the third and 

 following joints nearly equal, thorax one half broader than long, 

 the sides narrowed at the base widened and rounded before the 

 middle, the surface deeply transversely sulcate entirely impunc- 

 tate, pale flavous, scutellum flavous, elytra widened posteriorly 

 finely punctate-striate anteriorly, the punctuation entirely in- 

 distinct near the apex, the sides longitudinally sulcate below 

 the shoulders, the surface black, the extreme lateral margin, 

 the apex more broadly so and the epipleurae pale flavous, breast 

 and abdomen black, the last segment of the latter flavous, tri- 

 lobate , the medial lobe flat , subquadrate , legs flavous , claws 



