ISO 



HALTICINJE. 



by a median indefinite impression ; epipleura broad, purplish, 

 transversely wrinkled ; antennae reddish- testaceous. L. 6 mm. 



Burma. Close to Eu.rnvans, Baly, but easily to be recognised 

 by the blue and more finely -punctured elytra. 



Genus ACROCRYPTA, Bah/. 



Acrocrypta, Baly, Journ. of Ent. i, 1862, p. 457. 



GrENOTYPE, Acrocrypta mouhoti, Baly (Cambodia). 



Body ovate, strongly convex, narrowed in front. Head broad ; 

 eyes strongly convex, entire and ovate. Antennae short, much 

 thickened from the fourth segment onwards and laterally flat- 

 tened. Maxillary palpi with the penultimate segment strongly 

 dilated, subglobose, truncate at the apex. Prothorux much broader 

 than long; basal margin widely arched, the hind angles being 

 drawn forwards; sides short and slightly rounded; at the Iront 

 angles the surface is convex and rounded, and each o r the four 

 angles bears a fine erect seta. Scutelhim triangular. Elytra 

 closely, confusedly and Hnely punctate; humerus raised, convex. 

 Underside', anterior coxal cavil ms closed behind ; tibia? finely chan- 

 nelled on the dorsal side; posterior femora strongly thickened 

 and channelled on the underside ; claws widely separated, with a 

 ba-al thickening under each. 



Range. ludo-China, Borneo, Sumatra, Philippines, Assam, 

 Burma. 



Key to the Species. 



1. Pronotum black A. intermedia, Jac, p. 180. 



Pronotura not black 2. 



2. Longer insects (7 mm.) ; elytral punc- 



tures fine A. momeita, sp. n., p. 181. 



Smaller insects (6-6^ mm.) ; elytral 

 punctures larger A. assumensis, Jac, p. 182. 



1 22. Acrocrypta intermedia, Jacoby. 



Sphcerometopa intermedia, Jac, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, xxxii, 

 1892, p. 925. 



Body fulvous; scutellum dark fulvous; head, antenna?, pro- 

 thorax and legs, black or pieeous. 



Bead wilh some few fine punctures, frontal elevations rather 

 obsolete; penultimate segment of maxillary palpi strongly dilated. 

 Antennas short, extending a lit tie distance beyond the humerus, 

 with the fourth and following segments thickened and densely 

 covered with stiff hairs; from the fifth or sixth onwards the 

 segments are distinctly and progressively fbittened, the terminal 

 segment being pointed. Prothoracc short, much broader than 

 long, longest in the middle ; sides nearly straight, anterior angles 

 obliquely thickened, surface very finely and more, or less sparsely 



