320 



HALTICIX7E. 



mark, occupying its basal and central parts, piceous, the latter 

 colour blending intimately with the red-brown ; elytra dark 

 violaceous-blue (but less pure than in the preceding species) ; 

 scutellum piceous. 



Head with vertex im punctate, frontal tubercles distinct, inter- 

 antennal carina developed ; eyes large. Antennas not extending 

 to half the length of the elytra ; first segment long and club- 

 shaped, second somewhat larger than third, the latter about equal 

 to the fourth ; from the fifth the segments become progressively 

 thicker. Prothoraoc much broader than long, sides gently rounded, 

 narrowly margined ; surface finely and sparsely punctate, the 

 punctures being more evident on the basal part, while the front 

 and lateral portions are almost impunctate. Scutellum triangular, 

 smooth, impunctate. Elytra confusedly, closely and strongly 

 punctate ; along the margin is the broad, so-called impunctate, 

 strip, which is bounded on either side by a row of punctures. 

 Underside thinly covered with fine hairs. 



Length, 3 mm. 



Burma : Karen Hills, v-xii. 1888 (Fed). 



There is one example in the British Museum with Eea's label 

 of locality and Jacoby's label of identification, and which is marked 

 " type/' but the Genoa Museum may also claim to possess the 

 type. 



230. Sphseroderma ornatipennis, Jacohy. 



Splicer oder ma ornatipennis, Jac, Mem. Soc. Ent. Belg. vii, 1900, 

 p. 124. 



Sphceroderma Jlavoplagiata, Jac, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xl, 1896, 

 p. 265. 



Head, prothorax, underside and legs red-brown ; the three 

 basal segments of the antennae brown, the rest black ; scutellum 

 red-brown, mixed with piceous ; elytra piceous, on each elytron 

 is a large yellow patch, generally subtriangular in shape, extending 

 from the base to beyond the middle and much narrowing towards 

 the side ; this patch varies in. extent, but in no case reaches either 

 the sutural or the lateral margin ; the line of contact between the 

 sutural piceous area and the yellow patch may be straight or, in 

 some cases, somewhat sinuate ; wherever the yellow patch meets 

 the piceous ground-colour of the elytron, its edge is more red- 

 brown than piceous. 



Head with vertex impunctate ; eyes large ; frontal tubercles 

 rather small, the transverse line of demarcation separating them 

 from the vertex not deeply impressed, interantennal carina sharp, 

 clypeus deflexed, its anterior edge straight. Antennas extending 

 to a little distance beyond the base of the pronotum ; first segment 

 long and club-shaped, second somewhat larger than third, the 

 following segments more or less nearly equal to each other and 

 gradually somewhat thickened. Prothorax much broader than 

 long, sides very gently rounded with margins narrowly reflexed, 



