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91. Philopona birmanica, Jacoby. 



Oedionychis birmanica, Jac, Ann. Mus. Civ. Geneva, xxvii, 1889, 

 p. lb)9. 



Colour piceous : basal segments of antennse flax ous. distal 

 segments fuscous ; anterior and middle legs, posterior tibise and 

 prothorax, flavous ; elytra metallic dark greenish-blue, with the 

 extreme lateral margin and the epipleura more or less distinctly 

 fla\ ous. 



Head with some deep punctures on the vertex, the space round 

 the inner margin of the eyes strongly rugose : frontal tubercles 

 narrow ami elongate, divided ; clypeus transverse, with an aiutely 

 raised projection (more obtuse in the female) at its middle. 

 Antennae extending to about half the length of the elytra, third 

 segment double the length of the second and longer than each of 

 the following segments. Prothorax two and a half times broader 

 than long; its sides moderate y rounded and explanate, anterior 

 angles slightly produced outwards and thickened, anterior and 

 posterior margins nearly straight; upper surface irregularly and 

 finely punctate, base obsoletely transversely depressed. Scutellum 

 piceous, triangular. Elytra strongly and closely punctate. 

 Underside: first segment of the posterior tarsi short, claw- 

 seument strongly inflated ; presternum narrowly elongate, slightly 

 raised. 



The males of this species have the frontal tubercles elongate 

 and consisting of two short elongate ridg- s, separated by a larger 

 space than is usually the case; in the female these strmtures are 

 broader, blunter and closely approximated, and the clypeus in this 

 latter sex has iis centre raised into a blunt tubercle, instead of a 

 sharp ridge as in the male. 



LeiK/th, 3|-5 mm. 



Burma: Bhamo (Fea). 



Type in the Genoa Museum. 1 have not seen the type. 



92. Philopona mandala*, sp. nov. 



Body ovate, somewhat broadened behind. General colour 

 shining yellow-brown ; antennae, except the four basal segments, 

 blackish ; scutellum brown; elytra black, each with a large 

 roundish patch in the middle and a large area at the apex, yellow- 

 brown ; labium blackish; inner edges of epipleura of elytra 

 black; centre of ventral surlace of abdomen blackish. 



Bead with vertex impunctate; frontal tubercles divided by a 

 longitudinal impression, which meets two oblique impressions 

 separating them from the vertex. Antennae hardly reaching the 

 middle ot the ely ra ; first segment the thickest and lonpest, 

 club-shaped, second small, much shorter but thicker than third ; 



* Sanskrit, " round." 



