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narrow stripe at the middle close to the lateral margin, followed 

 by a smaller spot near the apex, and a A -shaped mark below the 

 middle, attached to the suturai margin, the latter, nearly up to 

 the base and the apical margin also narrowly black ; legs 

 testaceous, the femora with an obscure spot, the tibise and tarsi 

 closely covered with hairs ; the metatarsus of the posterior legs 

 half the length of the tibia. 



Rangoon in Burmah , Kawkareet in Tenasserim. 



I am not quite certain as to the state of the anterior coxal 

 cavities in this species, the specimens being glued to cards and 

 of small size ; the cavities appear to be closed ; the interstices 

 of the punctures at the thorax are slightly rugose when seen 

 imder a strong lens, but those of the elytra are smooth. 



151. Monolepta orientalis, n, sp. 



Reddish fulvous ; head , antennae , thorax and legs flavous ; 

 elytra minutely punctured, rufous, the basal margin narrowly 

 black , with a transverse wliitish band , margined with black , 

 placed at the middle. 



Length 2 lines. 



Head impunctate, flavous ; the frontal tubercles very obsolete ; 

 labrum black ; antennae flavous , the second and third joints 

 very short , equal ; thorax twice as broad as long , the sides 

 feebly, the posterior margin rather strongly rounded, the surface 

 extremely finely punctured, only visible under a strong lens; 

 scutellum obscure piceous ; elytra convex , punctured like the 

 thorax , rufous with a broad wliitish transverse band placed 

 immediately below the middle, i)ounded above and below by a 

 narrow black band, the upper one of which is deeply sinuate 

 at the middle of its lower margin , the upper edge having a 

 corresponding projection or tooth ; another narrow black band 

 is placed across the basal margin ; underside entirely reddish 

 fulvous ; legs flavous , the four posterior femora spotted w ith 

 black, the posterior tibia* nearly entirely black ; the first joint 



