LONGITARSUS. 



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angles obliquely truncate, base with a distinct, slightly sinuate 

 and transverse furrow; surface finely and sparingly punctate, 

 more closely so behind the furrow. Elytra distinctly broader at 

 base than prothorax ; surface with fine punctures, placed in 

 irregular rows ; at first sight the punctuation appears more con- 

 fused than seriate, and the series cannot be counted. Underside 

 more shining than upper side ; abdominal segments sparsely 

 covered with fine hairs ; first segment of posterior tarsi but little 

 longer than the following segments together. 



Length, 2 mm. 



Buema: Tharrawaddy. 



Type in the British Museum. 



This species is closely allied to L. binotatus, from Shanghai. 



257. Longitarsus strigatus, sp. nov. 



Body oblong. Colour brown with the suture narrowly piceous ; 

 a longitudinal, ill-defined, stripe on each elytron blackish ; antennae 

 blackish, except the three basal segments, which are brown ; the 

 fourth is not so pronouncedly blackish as the following segments, 

 and the eleventh is partly brown, but blackish at the apex. 



Head with vertex impunctate, frontal elevations absent, inter- 

 antennal carina indistinct. Antennae as long as the body ; first 

 segment long and club-shaped, second shorter, third hardly longer 

 than second, fourth much longer than third; fourth to tenth 

 elongate, equal, the eleventh pointed. Prothorax broader than 

 long, sides slightly sinuate at the middle, anterior lateral angles 

 oblique, each of the posterior lateral angles bearing a long fine 

 seta; surface impunctate. Scutellum small, triangular, impunctate. 

 Elytra distinctly broader at base than prothorax, humerus promi- 

 nent ; surface punctate, the punctures being to a certain degree 

 arranged in longitudinal rows. Underside : posterior tibiae long, 

 with the usual series of spinules along the exterior edge and 

 ending in a long spine ; first segment of the posterior tarsi as 

 long as half the corresponding tibia. 



Length, 2 mm. 



Tenasseuim : Tavoy (Doherty}. 



Type in the British Museum. Described from one example. 



258. Longitarsus birmanicus, Jacoby. 



Longitarsus birmanicus, Jac, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, xxxii, 1892, 

 p. 921. 



Head, underside and suture (the last very narrowly) piceous ; 

 labrum entirely black ; palpi testaceous ; apical segments of antennas 

 fuscous, the four basal segments testaceous; apices of posterior 

 femora black ; scutellum black ; pronotum and elytra- (excepting 

 the suture) brown. 



