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70. Nonarthra apicalis, Jacoby. 



Enneamera apicalis, Jac, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, xxvii, 1889, p. 200. 



Colour pale testaceous ; bead fulvous, with a black triangular 

 spot above the eyes; antenna dark fulvous, with the three basal 

 segments somewhat lighter and shining ; scutellum obscure 

 fulvous ; elytra testaceous, with a transverse basal black band, 

 which is considerably widened at the suture and connected with a 

 small black streak placed on the shoulder ; also with a narrow 

 transverse band near the apex, bounding the apical rufous area in 

 front ; while tw o black spots, almost joined together, are situated 

 across the middle of the elytra ; underside and legs fulvous, with 

 the sides of the breast and bases of the femora black. In one 

 varietal form the elytra are entirely testaceous without spots. 



Head impunctate ; antenna) with the three basal segments 

 shining, the rest transverse and pubescent. Proihorax transverse, 

 widened at the middle*, the sides nearly straight, the anterior 

 margin slightly, and the posterior strongly, produced in the 

 middle, the surface impunctate. Elytra convex, rounded, very 

 finely and minutely punctate. 



Length. 3| mm. 



Burma: Nchwegoo, x. 1885 (L. Fea). 



Type in the Genoa Museum. I have not seen this species. 



71. Nonarthra ceylonensis, Jacoby. 



Enneamera ceylonensis, Jac, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1887, p. 84. 



Colour testaceous ; a spot or patch on the vertex of the head, 

 and the scutellum, black; labruin piceous ; antennae entirely 

 brownish, though the three or four basal segments are distinctly 

 much lighter than the rest; a large triangular patch on the basal 

 area of the elytra, and a post-median transverse narrow band on 

 each elytron, reddish, the band being more piceous than reddish ; 

 this reddish colour sometimes spreads over the whole elytral 

 surface, while in one specimen the post-median band on each 

 elytron is divided into two small spots. 



Head broader than long, impunctate. Antenna? with the first 

 segment comparatively long, the second shorter than either the 

 first or the third ; from the fourth to the eighth the segments are 

 distinctly triangularly dilated ; the ninth is flattened as usual, but 

 not dilated like the preceding segments. Prothoraso broader than 

 long, basal margin widely arched, sides straight, anterior and 

 posterior angles almost right angles, and rounded ; upper surface 

 uniformly convex from side to side and impunctate. Scutellum 

 triangular, with the surface impunctate. Elytra hardly broader 

 at the base than the prothorax, the surface very convex, entirely 



* See footnote on |». Vs.'.. 



