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121. Euphitrea foveicollis, Jacoby. 



Euphitrea foveicollis, Jac, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1893, p. 149. 



Body broadly ovate, rounded. Colour fulvous, with a bronzy 

 or violaceous sheen on the upper surface. 



Head rugosely punctate (the rugosity is pronouuced in the 

 type-specimen, but it is less marked in some other examples, which 

 lhave very fine punctures), deeply and obliquely channelled above 

 the eves; clypeus thickened and widened between the antennae, 

 impunctate ; palpi slender. Antennas not extending to the 

 middle of the elytra; first segment long and club-shaped, second 

 shorter, but equal to the third ; from the fourth the segments are 

 somewhat thickened and pubescent and more or less nearly equal. 

 Prothorax twice as broad as long (3xl| mm.), anterior margin 

 straight, anterior angles produced outwards, sides rounded, 

 posterior margin sinuate at the sides ; disc very finely and closely 

 punctate, with a large fovea near the anterior angles ; the sur- 

 rounding edges of this fovea are thickened, and the space behind 

 is very finely strigose ; the foveaa and the strigose nature of the 

 pronotal punctures are pronounced in the type-specimen, but 

 in other examples the foveas are feeble, and in some obsolete. 

 Scutellum triangular, with apex pointed and surface impunctate. 

 Elytra broader at base than prothorax, rounded and moderately 

 convex, strongly, closely and confusedly punctate ; the inter- 

 stices in some examples seem rather wrinkled, and there is an 

 impunctate space along the lateral margin, thickened in front 

 and accompanied by a row of deep punctures ; epipleura very 

 broad, narrowing towards the apex and transversely wrinkled. 

 Underside : abdomen closely punctate ; tibiae deeply sulcate ; 

 anterior coxal cavities closed behind. 



Length, 7| mm. 



Assam : Naga Hills, Dunsiri Valley (type-locality, also speci- 

 mens in the Indian Museum). Sikkim : Mungphu (Indian 

 Museum) ; Glopaldhara, Eungbong Valley (H. Stevens). 



Type in the British Museum. 



The following insect is unknown to me, and from the short 

 diagnosis in Latin, of which a translation is here given, it is not 

 possible to place the species with certainty in any genus. Pro- 

 bably it belongs to the genus Orthaea, Jac. 



Euphitrea birmanica, Harold, Col. Hefte, 1879, xvi, p. 231. 



Sub-rotund, ferruginous, with elytra blue, fairly regularly 

 seriate-punctate, the punctures towards the apex smaller and 

 less regularly arranged ; lateral border of elytra from the base to 

 bevond the middle smooth and somewhat thickened ; thorax 

 densely punctulate, the base having on each side a short im- 

 pressed line, lateral margin smooth and separated from the dis 



