HYPHASOMA. 



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minutely, confusedly and more or less closely punctate. Under- 

 side : first segment of posterior tarsi slightly longer than the two 

 following segments together. 

 Length, 5| mm. 



Tenasserim : Thagata, iv. 1887 (Fea). 

 Type in the Genoa Museum. 



There is one example in the British Museum. Jacoby was of 

 opinion that the females of this species are double the size of the 

 males, but I have not enough material to test this view. 



1 18. Hyphasoma intermedia, Jacoby. 



Hyphatis intermedia, Jac, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, xxxii, 1892, 

 p. 937. 



Ovate. Colour fulvous or obscure piceous ; antennae some- 

 times fuscous. 



Head im punctate, clypeus with an acutely raised central ridge. 

 Antennae two-thirds the length of the body ; all the segments, 

 with the exception of the second, are of nearly equal length. 

 Prothorax nearly three times as broad as long, sides with a rather 

 broad explanate margin, scarcely rounded, anterior angles 

 obliquely produced; surface very finely and remotely punctate, 

 distinctly depressed in front of the scutellum. Scutellum broad 

 and impunctate. Elytra oblong-ovate, more strongly but not 

 more closely punctate than the prothorax. Underside : first 

 segment of posterior tarsi elongate. 



Length, 5 mm. 



Burma : Karen Mts. (Fea). 



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

 which was described from two examples only. II. intermedia is 

 closely allied to H. unicolor, Jac, and H. inornata, Jac, but differs 

 in having the prothorax and elytra more distinctly, although 

 finely, and remotely punctate ; in the two allied species these 

 parts are either closely or extremely finely punctate, while in 

 H. inornata the sides of the prothorax are also strongly rounded. 



119. Hyphasoma inconspicua, Jacoby. 



Hyphasoma inconspicua, Jac, Ann. Soc Ent. Belg. xlvii, 1908 

 p. 111. 



Oblong-ovate, shining. Colour entirely obscure testaceous. 



Head impunctate, with a strong transverse groove between the 

 eves, frontal tubercles and interantennal carina well developed, 

 but more or less broad, clypeus concave at its lower portion. 

 Antennae extending to about the middle of the elytra ; first 

 segment elongate and club-shaped ? second shorter than either 

 tirst or third; the following segments of almost equal length. 

 Prothorax somewhat less than one millimetre broader than long, 

 with sides rounded and rather broadly margined, their edges 



