APIITHONEL liA . 



28a 



Head with vertex convex, smooth and impunctate, frontal 

 elevations present but not very prominent : eyes strongly convex. 

 Antennae somewhat shorter than the length of the body ; first 

 segment long and club-shaped, second small, shorter aud stouter 

 than third, fourth almost equal to third; from the fifth onwards 

 the segments are somewhat longer and more hairy. Prothorax a 

 little broader than long, sides rounded, anterior angles obliquely 

 truncate, posterior angles rounded ; surface convex, minutely and 

 sparsely punctate. Scutellum small, triangular, impunctate, with 

 apex broadly rounded. Elytra broader than prothorax, punctate- 

 striate, each elytron having eleven rows, including a scutellar and 

 an extreme marginal row; puuctures of the rows near the suture 

 rather irregularly arranged; interstices fiat. Underside smooth, 

 shining ; presternum broad, closely studded with large pits ; 

 anterior coxal cavities closed behind ; posterior femora strongly 

 incrassate ; posterior tibiae longer than either the front or the 

 middle pairs, channelled on the upper side and broadened at the 

 apex, where there is a series of small spinules on each side ; first 

 segment of the posterior tarsi almost as long as the three following 

 segments together ; claws appendiculate. 



Length, 3 mm. 



Burma: Bhamo, vi. 1886 (L. Fea). 

 Type in the Genoa Museum. 



Section III : Subsection IV. 



Pronoturn and elytra not pubescent ; claw-segment of hind 

 tarsus not greatly dilated ; front coxal cavities open behind. 



1. In front of, and parallel to, the base 



of the pronoturn is a shallow or 



deep impression , 20. 



No such ante-basal impression on the 

 pronoturn 2. 



2. Small insects (2J mm. long.) ; elytron 



with an obliquely longitudinal [p. 286. 



humeral ridge Pheudaphtiiona, Jac, 



Elytron with no such ridge 3. 



3. All the tibiae short, somewhat curved, 



the front pair with a broad emargi- 

 nation on the outer edsre nearer the 



apex , Pentamesa, Harold, p. 288. 



Tibia? not so constructed 4. 



4. Posterior tibiae with a broad apical 



projection or spur ending in two 



principal points 5. 



Posterior tibiae without any such 

 double-pointed spur 7. 



5. Eyes large and nearly contiguous, 



separated only by a thin strip .... Paradibolia, Baly, p. 294. 



Eyes not nearly contiguous 6. 



