NEORTHAEA SPH^ROPLEURA. 



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Head with vertex iinpunctate, except for a few stray, extremely 

 line, punctures ; the deep furrows above the eyes, as well as 

 the other characteristic features of the head, are as is usual in the 

 genus. Antennae comparatively long, extending to about the 

 middle of the elytra and sparsely covered with fine hairs ; first 

 segment the longest and club-shaped, second almost as long as 

 third, which is more slender, fourth similar to the preceding ; from 

 the fifth to the last the segments are thicker and almost equal. 

 Proihoraoc broader than long, basal margin sinuate, sides more or 

 less straight, anterior angles thickened ; surface convex, sloping 

 down at the sides in front, confusedly punctate. Scutellum small, 

 triangular, impunctate. Elytra broader at base than prothorax, 

 punctate-striate, each elytron having eleven rows of punctures, 

 including a scutellar and an extreme marginal row, the punctures 

 in each row being not very regularly placed ; humeri prominent, 

 impunctate; this species differs from certain of its congeners in 

 not having a confusion of punctures about the suture, as indi- 

 cated, for instance, in the preceding species. Underside punctate, 

 covered with hairs ; epipleura broad and transversely wrinkled. 



Length, 3 mm. 



Burma : Ruby Mines (Doherty). 

 Type in the British Museum. 



Genus SPIOEROPLEURA, Jacoby. 

 Sphatropleura, Jac, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1887, p. 102. 

 GtE^otype, Splicer o pleura tricostata, Jac. 



Body rounded, strongly convex, hemispherical. Head broad; 

 antennae filiform, slender. Prothorax strongly convex, without 

 depressions. Elytra punctate-striate, the striae not very regular. 

 Underside : presternum narrow, deeply channelled longitudinally; 

 anterior coxal cavities closed ; mesosternum deeply emarginate at 

 the apex ; posterior femora strongly incrassate, the tibiae slender, 

 not channelled on the upper side ; first segment of the posterior 

 tarsi as long as the two following segments united; claws 

 appendiculate. 



Range. Ceylon. 



191. Sphaeropleura tricostata, Jacoby. 



Sphceropleura tricostata, Jac, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1887, p. 102. 



Colour of antennae, tibiae, and tarsi generally dark brown, but 

 the antennae may be lighter ; underside piceous ; head and pro- 

 thorax black ; elytra black or dark brown. 



Head : vertex convex, smooth, and impunctate ; frontal tubercles 

 and interantennal carina absent. Antennae about one-half a 

 millimetre shorter than the length of the body ; first segment long 

 nd slender, second almost as long as, but thicker than 



