PHYTOPHAGOUS COLEOPTERA FROM BURMA 989 



to the base of the elytra, robust, obscure dark fulvous or fuscous, 

 the basal three joints flavous , the intermediate joints rather 

 triangular, but slightly longer than broad, the third joint more 

 slender than the others and about half longer than the second 

 joint ; thorax transversely convex , rather more than one half 

 broader than long, the angles not produced, the sides rounded, 

 the anterior margin straight , the posterior one rounded , the 

 surface with some extremely fine punctures, flavous ; scutellum 

 black; elytra very finely punctured in closely approached rows, 

 the disc occupied hy a large oval whitish patch surrounded by 

 the narrowly black suturai and lateral margins, this latter co- 

 lour however widened at the base and the apex ; underside 

 black , the legs flavous ; the tibiae and tarsi more or less 

 fuscous. 



Garin Asciuii Gheba, Garin Gheba. 



Doryida, Baly. 



Body oblong , narrowed posteriorly, glabrous , the antennae 

 filiform, widely separated; thorax strongly transverse, scutellum 

 broad , triangular , elytra semi-regularly punctured , their epi- 

 pleurae indistinct below the middle, legs rather short and robust, 

 the tibiae simple and unarmed, the first joint of the posterior 

 tarsi as long as the following two joints together, claws appen- 

 diculate, presternum distinct, rather convex, the mesosternum 

 slightly produced, its apex truncate, the anterior coxal cavities 

 closed. 



I have given a more lengthy description of this genus in 

 which a certain number of structural characters combine which 

 are scarcely to be found amongst the large tribe of the Galeru- 

 cinae; the genus resembles strongly Chalcophana amongst the 

 Eumolpidae; the distantly placed antennae further help to create 

 this impression, as well as the distinct presternum ; the posterior 

 femora are slightly incrassate but not sufficiently so to consider 

 the insect as belonging to the Halticinae; the slightly produced 

 mesosternum and the unarmed tibiae agrees with Chapuis' group 



