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18. Tenxiiaspis nig-ripennis , n. sp. 



Flavous; clothed with black stiff pubescence; antennae entirely 

 llavous ; thorax and elytra sparingly punctured, the latter black ; 

 legs fulvous, posterior femora with an acute spine. 



Length 4-5 lines. 



Head with a small but deep fovea on the vertex , flavous , 

 clothed with stiff black hairs ; labrum and the palpi fulvous ; 

 antennse extending to the base of the elytra , the basal four 

 joints fiilvous, shining, the others opaque, flavous, closely pube- 

 scent, of transverse shape and dentate at their upper margins ; 

 thorax twice as broad as long, narrowed in front, the posterior 

 angles oblique, the anterior margin with a narrow groove at 

 each side, the surface sparingly punctured, flavous, clothed with 

 stiff' black hairs ; scutellum flavous ; elytra entirely black, punc- 

 tured and pubescent like the thorax ; below pale flavous, clothed 

 with yellowish pubescence , the breast and the femora darker 

 fulvous , the anterior tarsi black ; metasternum raised at each 

 side into a conical protuberance. 



Shwegoo, October 1885. 



The spine at the apex of the posterior femora is present in 

 both sexes , the latter being slightly longer in the male , tlie 

 posterior tibise are distinctly curved and widened at the apex. 



19. Clythra palliata, Fabk. 



Bhamò , Teinzò. 



A male with very dilated elytra and two females were obtai- 

 ned which agree in every respect with the description given 

 by Lacordaire. 



20. II>lapi*omoi*pli.a (Aspidolopha) inLola]iox>lLtlialnia, Lao. 



It seems to me that Lacordaire described the type of this 

 species from specimens in wliich the elytra were unspotted ; 

 in several specimens contained in tliis collection tlie elytra have 



