PHYTOPHAGOUS COLEOPTERA FROM BURMAH 195 



Teinzò. 



.4. indicus seems closely allied to A. angidicoUis Clark ^Yhich it 

 resembles in size hut from which the totally differently shaped tho- 

 rax separates it. A. unicolor Motsch. seems to be another closely 

 allied species^ but is described with a sparingly punctured thorax. 



89. S i^lxaeropliysa *? pieeieollis, n. sp. 



Rounded, convex, fulvous; apical joints of the antennse, black; 

 head and thorax closely punctured , piceous ; elytra fulvous, 

 regularly punctate-stria te. 



Length 1 Ys li^®. 



Head rugose-punctate, piceous ; eyes large ; the frontal eleva- 

 tions and the carina entirely obsolete; antennse not extending 

 beyond the base of the thorax, the five lower joints llavous, 

 the rest black, the third joint slender, longer than any of the 

 others, the terminal joints transversely widened; thorax trans- 

 verse, three times broader than long, the sides strongly narrowed 

 in front , the anterior angles thickened nearly as far as the 

 middle, the posterior margin sinuate at each side, the median 

 lobe rounded and produced ; surface strongly and closely punc- 

 tured at the sides, more finely at the disc, the latter with an 

 obsolete longitudinal depression at each side ; scutellum piceous ; 

 elytra dark fulvous, each with nine rows of distinct and regular 

 punctures not including another short row near the suture ; the 

 interstices very minutely punctured ; underside piceous, very 

 strongly punctured ; posterior femora strongly thickened, their 

 tibiae deeply chanelled, armed with a distinct spur at the apex, 

 the anterior tibia3 unarmed ; the first joint of the posterior tarsi 

 nearly as long as the three following joints; claws appendiculate; 

 prosternum broad; mesosternum slightly raised, its apex truncate; 

 anterior coxal cavities open. 



Bhamù, July, August 1886. 



I have only provisionally placed this insect in the present 

 genus ^ which was estaljlished by M'". Baly on an insect from 

 Madagascar which seems to posess similar structural characters, 



