PHYTOPHAGOUS COLEOPTERA FROM BURMAH 221 



Length 3 lines. 



Head broad, impunctate, black ; eyes large ; labrum and palpi 

 flavous , penultimate joint of the latter thickened ; antennae 

 slender, filiform, fiavous, the extreme apex of the terminal joint 

 Ijlack ; thorax subquadrate, scarcely one half broader than long, 

 the sides straight at the base, widened before the middle, the 

 angles rather obtuse , the surface impunctate with two broad 

 shallow depressions on the disc , flavous ; scutellum flavous ; 

 elytra very slightly widened below the middle, black, with a 

 nmnl)er of closely approached longitudinal costse, the interstices 

 strongly impressed with double rows of punctures and clothed 

 with fine whitish pubescence ; below and the legs fulvous or 

 llavous ; tibiae mucronate , the first joint of the posterior tarsi, 

 longer than the three following joints together ; claws appen- 

 diculate ; anterior coxal cavities closed. 



Teinzò, Bhamò, May, June 1885-1886. 



143. A.iitii>lia pixncticollis, n. sp. 



Fulvous; the apical joints of the antennae black; sides of the 

 thorax finely punctured ; elytra obscure metallic dark blue , 

 finely and closely punctured. 



Var. a. Head and thorax more or less piceous , legs black. 



Var. b. Elytra more or less fulvous, margined with metallic blue. 



Length 1 ^/o-^ lines. 



Vertex impunctate: the frontal tubercles narrowly transverse; 

 antennae filiform , more than half the length of the body, the 

 lower joints more or less flavous , the rest black ; thorax nar- 

 rowly transverse, twice l)roader than long, the sides straight, 

 the anterior margin slightly concave, the surface with an obsolete 

 depression at each sides, the latter finely punctured ; scutellum 

 fulvous or piceous; elytra obscure dark blue, closely and finely 

 punctured with traces of longitudinal smooth lines ; tlie first 

 joint of the posterior tarsi as long as the following tliree joints 

 together ; anterior coxal cavities closed ; prosternum narrow but 

 distinct. 



