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HALTICINtE. 



when viewed at certain angles, are seen to be feebly raised.. 

 Underside punctate and sparsely covered with fine hairs : tibiae, 

 posterior femora and claws as described under the genus. 

 Length, 7 mm. 



Burma : Momeik [Momeit] (Doherty). 



Type in the British Museum. Described from one example. 

 This species is closely allied to A. assamensis, Jac, but differs 

 from that species in its larger build and finer elytral punctures. 



1 24. Acrocrypta assamensis, Jacoby. 



Acrocrypta assamensis, Jac, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1873, p. 151. 



Body broadly ovate and convex. Colour dark reddish -brown, 

 the antennas (from the third segment onwards) and legs black, 

 while the two basal segments of the antennas may be tinged with, 

 dark brown. 



Fig. 68. — Acrocrypta assamensis, Jac. 



Head very finely punctate between the eyes, frontal elevations 

 flat, palpi strongly incrassate. Antenna? short, passing a little 

 distance beyond the base of the pronotum, from the fourth seg- 

 ment gradually thickened and pubescent ; first segment long and 

 thickened at the apex, second small, slightly shorter than third, 

 the iast segment small and pointed. Prothorax more than twice 

 as broad as long, front margin straight, sides short and rounded,, 

 posterior margin sinuate towards each side, the median lobe 

 roundly produced ; anterior angles obliquely thickened, each 

 posterior angle with a small swelling, all the four angles each 

 bearing a seta ; surface convex, very minutely punctate throughout. 



