1893.] BEETLES OF THE FAXIILT CLEEID.E. 575 



usual lateral white scales. The wide head, lobed sides of the thorax, 

 and form of the elytra, depressed at the base and narrowing to 

 their apex, give this species much the appearance of a large 

 Uydiioccra. 



Xeis'OBThiiitjs, Gorham (Ann. del Mas. Civ. Gen. xii. 

 p. 73y, 1892). 



Xenorthr'ms is pror)Osed by me, in my descriptions of the Cleridas 

 collected by L. Fea in Burmah, for a genus of that family of 

 w hich I have long had a few exponents obtained by AVallace in the 

 East. They are allied to Opilo and to my genus Orthrius ; from 

 the former the conical apical joint of the maxillary palpi, from 

 the latter the eyes distinctly cut out afford sufficient distinction. 

 X. niouhoti. from Laos and Burmah, the type of the genus, X.s^(h- 

 fasdatus, from Pegu, and A', balteatus, Burmah, described in the 

 publication quoted, have the elytra entire ; I have now to add two 

 species of this section, and one in which the elytra are truncate 

 with a distinct mucro, the genus thus resembling Pnoara. 



XeNOETKEICS EPHIPPIATCS, Q. Sp. 



Pallide piceo-hrunneus, hreviter dense h'unneo-pilosus ; paljns, 

 jiedihus, ehitrorum fascia communi undata ad m'turam latiore 

 ajnceque pallide fluvis ; prothoraee anfice et lateraliter vix 

 punctato, disco postice obsolete, crehre suhrugose, elytris basi et 

 laterihus fjraniilose punctatis, fascia et apice sublcevibus. Long. 

 8-9 millim. 

 Hah. Assam, Patkai Mountains {Dohertij). 



The general colour of this insect is pitchy brown, the elylral 

 fascia and the apex being very pale, almost white, and the brown 

 of the parts margining these is more suffused indeterminately ; the 

 puncturing is similar to that of X. 'luoulioti, viz. the head is 

 neai-ly smooth, as well as the front part and rather tumid sides of 

 the thorax ; these parts are separated from the disk by the anterior 

 constriction and an impressed line on each side, and the disk is 

 thickly, not deeply or strongly, punctured : as this structure seems 

 usual in the genus, it will not be referred to again except where 

 modified in other species. The elytra have also a normal sculpture, 

 viz. striae with rasp-like puncturing, the interstices being flat- 

 tened in the middle and from thence on each side of the suture to 

 the apex, and the punctures obhterated. The punctures are only 

 distinct in the basal third ; they become obsolete and only leave 

 small rasp-like edges behind, and in that part the alternate inter- 

 stices are raised lines, hardly amounting to costse. 

 Three specimens. 



XESOETHBUrS GENICtn-ATTJS, U. sp. 



Brunneus ; pedibiis jJalUdionbus, genicidis nigris, tarsis hrunneis. 

 capite prolhoraceque nitidis, hoe disco crehre ohsolctius punctato ; 



