LIPBUS. — EPITK1X. 



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club-shaped, second shorter arid somewhat thicker than third, 

 third, fourth and fifth slender and almost equal, sixth and seventh 

 each slightl)' shorter than those which precede them and equal to 

 each other, eighth to eleventh very slightly thicker and equal. 

 Prothorax : shape and structure as in L. assameusis; surface 

 smooth and impunctate. Scutellum triangular, impunctate. 

 Elytra much broader at the base than the protliorax ; humerus 

 prominent, post-humeral longitudinal ridge not so pronounced as 

 in L. assameusis ; the basal convex area is present, but is also less 

 prominent than in L. assameusis. The scheme of punctuation on 

 each elytron is mainly the same as that described in L. assameusis : 

 across the base there are seven rows including the sutural and 

 the extreme marginal rows; as in L. assamensis, the sutural row 

 anastomoses with the next row; across the middle part eight rows 

 can be counted ; all the rows converge, and the punctures become 

 feebler, towards the apex. Underside smooth, shining, impunctate, 

 sparsely scattered over with very fine silvery hairs. 



Length, 3 mm. ; length of antenna, 24 mm. 



Burma : Ruby Mines (Doherty). 



Type in the British Museum. Described from one example. 



Gen us EPITRIX, Foudras. 



Epitrix, Foudras, Hist. Nat. Col. Fr., Altisides, 1860, p. 308: Fowler, 

 Col. Brit. Isl. iv, 1889, p. 384,. 



Genotype, Epitrix atropce, Foudras (Europe), by present desig- 

 nation. In proposing this genus Foudras mentions three 

 European species, viz. E. pubeseens, Koch, E. intermedia, Foudr. 

 and E. atropce, Foudr. 



The insects of this genus can be easily recognised by two 

 characters : (1) a transverse depression just in front of the basal 

 margin of the pronotum, and (2) the rows of semi-erect, back- 

 wardlv directed hairs along the intervals between the longitudinal 

 series of elytral punctures. These beetles arc; of small and stout 

 build, the upper surface being roughly punctate. Read broad, but 

 narrower than the breadth of the pronotum ; eyes convex ; 

 antennae long, somewhat shorter than the body. Protliorax 

 broader than long, convex and strongly punctate, furnished with 

 the ante-basal impression mentioned above. Scutellum very small, 

 triangular, with apex rounded. Elytra seriately punctate, with 

 the punctures very deep, and bearing in the intervals the rows of 

 hairs mentioned above. Underside punctate and furnished with 

 hairs. Posterior femora only moderately thickened. 



Range. America, Europe, Africa, Madagascar, Ceylon. 



This genus is largely South American, but a few representatives 

 of it have been found in Europe, Africa and Madagascar. The 

 insect described below is from Ceylon, and it is probable that 

 the natural range of the genus extends so far, but I cannot be 



