PHYTOPHAGOUS COLEOPTERA FROM BURMA 991 



In the varieties the spots are either confluent and indistinct 

 as the ground colour is a dark fulvous, or the elytra and the 

 thorax are nearly black, while one specimen is entirely of ful- 

 vous colour without any spots ; the underside and legs show 

 however no variation in that respect. 



Antliiphula , n. gen. 



Narrowly-elongate, the antennae long and filiform, the thorax 

 subquadrate, strongly widened in front without depression, elytra 

 irregularly punctured, their epipleurae extremely broad, conti- 

 nued to the apex, legs robust, the tibiae unarmed, the first joint 

 of the posterior tarsi scarcely longer than the second joint, claws 

 appendiculate, prosternum narrow but distinct, the anterior coxal 

 cavities closed. 



The small insect for which I propose the present genus seetns 

 to be one of those transitionary forms difficult to classify on 

 account of having some structural characters peculiar to either 

 the Galerucinae or Hallicinae, thus, the scarcely thickened hind 

 femora agreeing with the former and the distinct prosternum 

 and very broad elytral epipleurae with the latter group ; al- 

 though the legs are proportionately robust, the posterior femora 

 not being particularly thickened I have therefore placed the 

 insect for the present amongst the Galerucinae where it may 

 find its place near Anthipha on account of the distinct prosternum 

 and unarmed tibiae. 



167. ^^ntlxiphula semifixlva, n. sp. 



Pale fulvous , the terminal joints of the antennae fuscous , 

 thorax entirely impunctate, elytra fusco-violaceous and finely ( </) 

 or fulvous and more strongly punctured (9) the base convex. 



Length 1 ^/^-2 lines. 



c/". Head impunctate, not longer than broad, the frontal ele- 

 vations strongly developed, broadly transverse, the penultimate 

 joint of the palpi thickened , the antennae more than half the 



