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87. Spltaeroderina {Eucycla) varipes Jac. 



Ovcately rounded, convex dark, fulvous; apical joints of the 

 antennae black ; head impunctate ; thorax closely and finely 

 punctured ; elytra not more strongly punctate, the punctuation 

 arranged in irregular rows. 



Var. Thorax and elytra nearly black. 



Length 1 Vo line. 



Head impunctate at the vertex ; eyes very large , closely 

 approached, the frontal elevations small but distinct, the carina 

 acutely raised between the antennae ; clypeus with some long 

 yellowish hairs ; palpi Havous, the penultimate joint thickened ; 

 antennae extending slightly beyond the base of the thorax, the 

 five lower joints Havous, the others black; the second and third 

 joints egual; thorax transverse, narrowed towards the front, the 

 sides very slightly rounded, with a narrow margin, the anterior 

 angles produced and flattened ( 9 ? ) or simple and scarcely 

 thickened ( c/* ?), the posterior margin sinuate at each side^ the 

 median lobe rounded and produced , the surface closely and 

 finely punctured , the punctures a little larger near the base ; 

 elytra moderately convex, irregularly impressed with fine punc- 

 tures which are here and there arranged in rows , a space in 

 front of the lateral margin impunctate , the margin itself im- 

 pressed witli a row of deeper punctures ; posterior femora 

 strongly incrassate, pubescent ; prosternum broad. 



Teinzò, Bhamò^ l^pper Burmah, and Meetan in Tenasserim. 



Of this species, which was described by myself in the « Notes 

 of the Leyden Mus. » (Vol. VI. p. 210) as Eucycla varipes there 

 are a good many specimens contained in this collection and of 

 wliicli I have given here a renewed description. An examination 

 of the greater material now before me , seems to prove , that 

 the species cannot be separated from Spliaeruderma with most 

 of the species of which it also agrees in coloration ; there are 

 lioweyer two forms, probably the sexes, distinguished by the 

 different anterior angles of the thorax, altliough not varying in 



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