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thickened and not produced, posterior margin, as usual, sinuate at 

 the sides ; surface closely and very finely punctate, the punctuation 

 at the sides scarcely visible. Elytra not more strongly punctate 

 than protliorax, the punctures being irregular in the middle but 

 forming four or tive distinct rows at the sides; the space just 

 within the lateral margin is nearly impunctate. 

 Length, 3| mm. 



Tenassebim: mountains between Meekalan and Ky eat rivers, 

 ii-iii. 1887 {Fea). 



Type in the Genoa Museum, a single specimen. 



I have not seen the type, but the robust and thickened antennae 

 evidently differentiate this species from all others. 



238. Sphaeroderma varipennis, Jacoby, 



Spheeroderma varipennis, Jac, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, xxxii, 1892, 

 p. 928. 



Underside, legs, head, pronotum and the four basal segments of 

 the antennae red-brown; elytra black, the suture and the lateral 

 edges very narrowly deeper brown, this colour expanding a little 

 towards the apex of the elytra; the seven apical segments of the 

 antenna? black; scutellum piceous. 



Head with vertex impunctate; two strongly impressed oblique 

 lines, meeting m the centre, form the posterior boundary of the 

 frontal tubercies, which are distinct but not strongly raised ; each 

 of these oblique impressed lines passes close behind the eye ; inter- 

 antennal carina well-developed. Antennae extending to a little 

 distance beyond the base of the elytra ; first segment long ;md 

 club-shaped, second and third about equal in length, fourth and 

 fifth also about equal in length, but each of them slightly longer 

 than either the second or third; from the seventh the segments 

 are somewhat thickened. Protliorax much broader than long, sides 

 well rounded, with slightly reflexed margins, anterior lateral 

 angles not produced, not expanded, posterior margin sinuate at 

 each side and with a median lobe ; surface finely punctate, 

 the punctures somewhat sparser in front and stronger and closer 

 on the basal part. Scutellum small, triangular, impunctate. 

 Elytra : each elytron with four paired longitudinal rows, the third 

 pair from the suture being somewhat irregular ; the punctures 

 generally are sparsely distributed, those between the suture and 

 the first pair and those between the other paired rows are not 

 regular, while, besides these, there are other much finer punctures ; 

 along the lateral margin is a broad space which contains finer 

 punctures only, and which is bounded on the outer margin by a 

 row of strongly impressed punctures. Underside covered with 

 fine hairs. 



Length, 5 mm. 



Burma: Rangoon, 1887 {Fea). 

 Type in the Genoa Museum. 



