PHILOPONA. 



153 



the black suture, and the intermediate and posterior black spots 

 differently situated. 



Length, 5-6 mm. 



Nilgibi Hills. 



Type in the British Museum. 



95. Philopona shima *, sp. nov. 



Body oblong with the sides almost parallel and the apex 

 broadly rounded. General colour yellow-brown, the suture and 

 elytral margins all round, with their epipleura, black or dark 

 pitch-brown; scutellum piceous, edited with deeper colour; of 

 the two examples before me the one from the Karen Hills has 

 the antennae blackish, except the three basal segments, and the 

 colour of the suture and elytral margins is lighter than in 

 the other specimen. 



Head with vertex convex and impunctate, frontal elevations 

 well developed and divided by a longitudinal median line, inter- 

 antennal carina large and rounded. Antennae extending to the 

 middle of the elytra; first segment the longest, club-shaped, 

 second thickened but very short, third to seventh almost equal 

 to each other in length, eighth to eleventh shorter but equal to 

 each other. Prothorax much broader than long; upper surface 

 very finely and remotely punctate, the punctures being seen 

 under a high power and in a suitable light; basal transverse 

 depression broad, extending across the whole breadth ; the 

 lateral margins explanate and concave, sides more or less rounded, 

 anterior lateral angles rounded, posterior almost right angles. 

 Scutellum triangular, with the apex rounded and the surface 

 impunctate. Elytra broader at base than prothorax, their sur- 

 face confusedly, closely and strongly punctate, the punctures 

 tending to become finer on the apical part. Underside covered 

 with fine silvery hairs; posterior tibiae short, terminating in a 

 sharp spine ; first segment of the posterior tarsi short, claw- 

 segment considerably inflated. 



Length, 4| mm. 



Burma: Momeik (Doherty); Karen Hills (Doherty). 



Type in the British Museum. Described from two examples 

 The example from Karen Hills differs slightly from the other in 

 coloration, as described above. 



96. Philopona mouhoti, Baly. 



Oedionychis mouhoti, Baly, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) i, 1878 

 p. 316. 



Body oblong. Colour shining dirty brown ; underside black or 

 piceous ; scutellum, suture and three round spots in a longitudinal 

 line commencing from the humerus (one on the humerus, the 



* Sanskrit, " boundary" or " limit." 



