HYPHASOMA. 



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and surface impunctate. Elytra hardly broader than the pro- 

 thorax at the base, their surface confusedly, closely and finely 

 punctate throughout, on the yellowish patch the punctures are 

 dark centered ; edges of the lateral margins slightly explanate and 

 reflexed. Underside sparsely covered with whitish pubescence ; 

 posterior femora considerably thickened ; claw-segment of the 

 posterior tarsi dilated as usual. 

 Length, 6 mm. 



Burma: Karen Mts., v-xii. 1888 (L. Fea). 



One example in the British Museum, bearing a name label in 

 Jacoby's handwriting, is marked " type," but as the species was 

 described from several examples the Genoa Museum may also 

 Jaim to possess the actual t\pe, although there is no doubt that 

 the British Museum example is one of those from which the 

 original description was drawn up. 



This species resembles H. bipustulata, Baly, in colour, but the 

 frontal tubercles in H. balyi are more strongly raised, the pro- 

 thorax is more closely punctate and the elytral patch is more 

 elongate ; in H. bipustulata this patch lies wholly behind the 

 middle. 



104. Hyphasoma tenuilimbatus *, Jacoby. 



Hyphasis tenuilimbatus, Jac, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xl, 1896, 

 p. 262. 



Body oblong ; colour uniform fawn-brown f ; antennae (ex- 

 cepting the three basal segments, which share the colour of the 

 bodv) black ; suture and elytral margins all round, narrowly 

 black. 



Head impunctate, eyes large, frontal elevations strongly raised, 

 triangular, carina short and blunt, clypeus deflexed. Antennas 

 extending to the middle of the elytra ; basal segment elongate, 

 club-shaped, second short, half the length of the first or third ; 

 all the other segments are more or less nearly equal except the 

 eighth, ninth and tenth, which are slightly shorter ; Jacoby's 

 statement, " third joint one-half shorter than the fourth," is 

 incorrect. JProthorax transverse, much broader than long, sides 

 evenly rounded, with a narrow reflexed margin, anterior angles 

 thickened and slightly produced outwards; surface rather convex, 

 almost impunctate, shining. Elytra parallel-sided, finely and 

 closely punctate, their epipleura deeply concave. Underside: 

 posterior femora greatly dilated; first segment of the posterior 

 tarsi as long as the two following segments together. 



* Jacoby wrote the specific name thus, with a masculine termination, 

 although the species immediately following, on the same page, was written 

 Hyphasis tkoracica, and lie seems to have always treated Hyphasis elsewhere as 

 :\ feminine word. — Ed. 



t One example has a few blackish spots, but these are apparently accidental 



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