SPKiERO DERMA. 



327 



Length, 3f-4| mm. 



Burma : Bhamo, vii. 1886 (Feci). 



Type in the Genoa Museum. 



241. Sphaero derma orientalis, Jacoby. 



Sphceroderma orientalis, Jac, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1887, p. 92. 



Body convex, narrowed towards the apex. Colour of the three 

 basal segments of the antennae brown, the remaining segments 

 black ; upper surface shining reddish-brown, three ill-defined 

 blackish patches on the pronotura completely pitch-black; in some 

 cases these patches are obsolescent ; underside and legs blackish 

 or deeper black, the last two segments of all the tarsi sometimes 

 brownish. 



Head impunctate ; frontal tubercles distinct, transverse, with a 

 median longitudinal line between them and separated from the 

 vertex by a strongly impressed transverse line in the interocular 

 space; mouth-parts somewhat exserted, anterior edge of the 

 clypeus straight. Antennae about half the length of the body ; 

 first segment long and club-shaped, second thicker and longer 

 than third, third and fourth about equal ; from the fifth the 

 segments are gradually thickened. Prothorax broader than long, 

 its longitudinal median line longer than its sides, the latter straight 

 but oblique, posterior margin sinuate at each side, with median 

 lobe somewhat produced and rounded; surface finely punctate. 

 Scutellum small, triangular, impunctate. Elytra not broader at 

 base than prothorax ; the humerus not very prominent ; surface 

 punctate, the punctures being semi-regularly arranged in longi- 

 tudinal series and stronger than those on the pronotum. Under- 

 side : prosteriml process longer than broad ; elytral epipleura 

 broad, extending nearly to the apex. 



Length, 2| mm. 



Ceylon : Dikova (tvpe-locality), 3800 ft.-4200 ft., 6.xii. 1881- 

 16. i. 1882 (G. Lewis) ; Galle (G. Lewis). 

 Type in the British Museum. 



242. Sphaeroderma mandarensis, Jacoby. 



Sphceroderma mandarensis, Jac, Mem. Soc. Ent. Belg. vii, 1900, 

 p. 123. 



Body convex, broadest at the base of the elytra, which narrow 

 towards the apex. Colour shining piceous or dark reddish-brown ; 

 the five or six basal segments of the antennae and the legs brown ; 

 the four or five apical segments of the antennae blackish ; the 

 extreme margins of the abdominal segments lighter brown. 



Head with vertex impunctate, frontal elevations transverse, 

 oblique, separated from the vertex by two deeply impressed lines, 

 which meet in the middle ; lower portion of the face strongly 

 produced and narrow ; interantennal carina well-developed. An 

 tenna? extending ro a little distance beyond the base of the elytra - 



