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nearly straight, placed just behind the shoulders, and the other 

 two curved and angulated at the suture. The inner, outer, and 

 hind edges are narrowly margined, and there are traces of three 

 slender lines crossing the transverse bars longitudinally. 

 I know only a single male. 



Ectinohoplia latipes, sp. n. (Plate I. fig. 5.) 



Nigra, corpore subtus, propygidio. pygidio femorisque postici 

 parte majori dense sulphureo-squamosis, pronoti margin e (hoc 

 antice et postice medio interrupto), linea mediana angusta 

 maculaque utrinque parva, scutello, elytrorum margine angusto 

 (basi interrupto), lineislongitudinalibus discoidalibus tribus, fasciis 

 duabus transversis, nonnunquam interruptis, internexis, harum 

 antica posthumerali, recta, postica. antemediana, ad suturam 

 angulata, leviter arcuata ; femoribus anticis et intermediis 

 posticorumque extremitatibus sat dense, capitis fronte, tibiis 

 atque tarsis disperse argenteo-coeruleo-squamosis ; elongata, 

 angusta, capite rugoso, subnitido, clypeo semicirculari ; pronoto 

 quam longiori parum latiori, lateribns medio angulatis, antice 

 et postice valde contractis, angulis anticis acutis, posticis 

 obsoletis ; scutello minuto ; elytris quam prothora,ce latioribus, 

 elongatis, dorso deplanatis, ad suturse finem setis longis instructis; 

 pygidio erecte setoso, pedibus longissimis, posticis crassis, horum 

 ungue integro : 



<$ , abdomine subtus fortiter curvato, pygidio elongato, tibiis 

 anticis dentibus tribus minutis parum remotis armatis, posticis 

 elongatis, compressis, basi excepto valde dilatatis. 



Long. H-12'5 mm. ; lat. max. 5 mm. 



Hah. Tonkin: Chapa (R. Vitalis de Salvaza — May, June, 

 July), Paklay (Laos) (August). 



This is a very slender-bodied species with a pattern similar 

 to that of E. nitidicauda and paivce. In its undivided hind 

 claw and the metallic scales confined to the head and legs it 

 shows a closer relationship to the latter. The thoracic pattern 

 is almost the same, but the yellow bars upon the elytra, 

 both longitudinal and transverse, are very slender, and only two 

 of the latter, both situated before the middle, are recognizable. 

 The most distinctive feature of the species is found in the very 

 broad hind tibia?, especially in the male. The abdomen in that 

 sex is very strongly arched and the pygidium longer than it is 

 broad. 



Ectinohoplia tibialis, sp. ii. (Plate I. fig. 8.) 



Nigra, corpore subtus, propygidio pygidioque dense sulphureo- 

 squamosis, pronoti linea integra mediana, margine toto (antice et 

 postice excepto), puncto utrinque, scutello elytrorumque margine 

 angusto integro(basi nonnunquam interrupto), lineistribustenuibus 

 longitudinalibus fasciaque transversa interrupta paulo post basin 

 pallide viridi-squamosis, femoribus sat dense, tibiis capitisque 



