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pectore lateribus infuscatis : capite laevi sutura frontali profunda 

 impressa : thorace basi utrinque latissime sed baud profunda 

 foveato et punctulato ; elytris acute et profunde aequaliter striatis, 

 interstitiis impunctatis. /? Venter apice utrinque puncto setifero 

 unico. Long. 7 millim. 

 Kathà , Teinzò , Bhamò , Mandalay. 



Oxyceiitrixs a.ii^ixstixs. Bates, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1876 

 p. 3 note. 



Bhamò , Teinzò , Rangoon . 



This is almost certainly Argreuter melas, Scbmidt-Goeb. Faun. 

 Birm. tab. Ill, fig. 2 (1846), of which the author never published 

 his intended description. Both genus and species were therefore 

 omitted by Harold and Gemminger from the Munich catalogue. 

 1 have no doulDt whatever , that the genus is the same as 

 Oxycentncs, Chaud. (1854) ; all the structural characters agreeing 

 except the mandibles, which in Chaudoir's species (0. parallelus) 

 are much longer and more curved at the apex, and apparently 

 also narrower at the base. 



A-iioplog-eiiiixs vixtilaiis , n. sp. 



A. microgono (Bates) atlinis et similis , at differt coloribus 

 tlioracisque angulis posticis rotundatis. Oblongus nigro-fuscus 

 supra concolor politissimus splendide opalescens, palpis antennis 

 basi pedibusque rufo-piceis ; thorace sat late transverso lateribus 

 regulariter rotundatis, angulis posticis obtusissimis fere rotundatis, 

 margine laterali explanato-reiiexo, foveis basaliljus magnis punctu- 

 latis; elytris profunde (prope apicem profundius) striatis inter- 

 stitiis convexis, 3.'° unipunctato, striola scutellari nulla ; subtus 

 laevi. Long. 9 millim, 9 • 



Kathà , Burma. Females only. 



StouolopliiK^ eyaiiellus, n. sp. 



St. qningicepusltdato (Wiedm.) proxime affinis sed ab omnibus 

 varietatibus suis differt colore supra cyaneo, elytris macula sub- 

 humerali, sutura versus apicem, macula magna irregulari apicali- 



