PHYTOPHAGOUS COLEOPTERA FROM BURMA 963 



base feebly raised , moderately strongly punctured in closely 

 approached double rows , the interstices with a few very fine 

 punctures ; underside fulvous very sparingly pubescent , legs 

 slender, entirely black. 



Carin Gheba. 



Principally distinguished from its allies by the colour of the 

 antennae and legs, the scarcely elevated base of the elytra and 

 their gemniate punctuation. 



130, Haplosonyx ornata, n. sp. 



Piceous or black , thorax sparingly and strongly punctured , 

 biimpressed , elytra very deeply punctate-striate , flavous , the 

 lateral and suturai margin (the latter widened into a spot at 

 the base) and a broad transverse band below the middle, black. 



Length 27^-3 lines. 



Head dark fulvous, the vertex with a piceous spot, impunctate, 

 eyes large and prominent, antennae extending slightly beyond 

 the middle of the elytra , black , the basal joint more or less 

 fulvous, the second and third joints very short, equal in the 

 male, the third joint one half longer in the female, the fourth 

 joint the longest ; thorax scarcely twice as broad as long , the 

 sides perfectly straight, the anterior angles oblique, the posterior 

 ones strongly produced outwards into a tooth, the surface with 

 a deep depression at each side, strongly and deeply punctured 

 at the middle, dark fulvous or piceous, scutellum black; elytra 

 without basal elevation , very regularly and deeply punctate- 

 striate, flavous, the suturai margin (widened anteriorly into a 

 subtriangular patch) a broad transverse band below the middle 

 and the lateral margin narrowly, black, underside fulvous or 

 piceous, the tibiae flavous below, the 4-posterior ones mucronate, 

 claws appendiculate, anterior coxal cavities closed. 



Carin Gheba. 



This comparatively small species seems to occupy a place 

 between the genera Haplosonyx , Sphenoraia and Galerucida 

 with neither of which it agrees entirely, it differs from Haplo- 



