1893.] BEETLES OE THE FAMILY CLERID.E. 575 



usual lateral Miiite scales. The wide bead, lobed sides of the thorax, 

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

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

 Uifdnoccra. 



Xexoethrius, Gorhani (Ann. del Mas. Civ. Gen. xii. 

 p. 733, 1S92). 



Xenorihrius is proposed by me, in my descriptions of the Cleridas 

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

 Mhich I have long had a few exponents obtained by Wallace in the 

 East. They are allied to OpUo and to my genus Orthrias; from 

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

 the latter the eyes distinctly cut out afford suflicient distinction. 

 A". oiiouJiotl. from Laos and Burmah, the type of the genus, X.sub- 

 fasciatus, from Pegu, and A. halteatus, Burmah, described in the 

 publication quoted, have the elytra entire ; 1 have now to add two 

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

 Avith a distinct mucro, the genus thus resembling Priocera. 



Xexoktheius ephippiatus, n. sp. 



Pallide piceo-hrunnetts, hreviter dense hrimneo-pUosus ; pcdpis, 

 pedihus, ehjtrorimi fascia communi undata ad stituram latiore 

 apiceque pallide Jlavis ; protliorace aniice et lateraliter vice 

 punctata, disco postice obsolete, crehre suhrugose, eh/tris basi et 

 lateribus (jranulose pmnctatis, fascia et apice sublcevibus. Lonrj. 

 8-9 miUhn. 

 Hah. Assam, Patkai Mountains (Doherty). 



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

 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. mouJioti, viz. the head is 

 nearly smooth, as well as the front part and rather tumid sides of 

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

 con!<tricti()n and an impressed line on each side, and the disk is 

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

 usual in tlie genus, it will }iot be referred to again except where 

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

 viz. striae wilh 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 obliterated. 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 costtc. 

 Three specimens. 



XenORTHIIIUS GENICULATUS, n. Sp. 



Brnnneus ; j>edihu8 ptdf'^idioi-ibus, (jenicidis nitjris, (arsis brunneis, 

 rnpltt itrolhoracei/uc nitidis, hoc disco crcbrc obsohtius pundalo ; 



