SEBiETHE. 



395 



Length, 5 mm. 



Burma : Karen Mts. {Feci ; type-locality). See also remarks 

 below. 



Type in the Genoa Museum. 



Jacoby described this species from one example. I have before 

 me five examples, all collected by Doherty from Burma, four of 

 them from the Kuby Mines and one from Momeit, and another 

 example from Sikkim (Mungphu) collected by Atkinson. In 

 two of the Ruby Mines examples the pronotum is pitch-brown, 

 and the pale patches on the elytra have expanded to such an 

 extent that the dark colour is reduced to a transverse band ; in 

 the other Burmese examples the dark colour forms a much broader 

 band, reducing considerably the paler areas; in the example from 

 Mungphu, Sikkim, these latter are four rounded patches. Thus 

 it is seen that the relative proportion of the dark and pale parts 

 on the elytra varies a great deal, as also the degree of intensity 

 of the pitch-brown or black colour. Moreover, Baly described 

 Sebcethe quadripustidata (Ent. Mo. Mag. xiii, 1876, p. 80) from 

 Java, and in this form the same pattern on the elytra is observ- 

 able. It is quite probable that the Burmese form is a variety of 

 the Javanese, or vice versa. I believe that specimens with the 

 elytral pattern described above, occurring in Sumatra, Java, 

 Borneo and Burma and extending to Mungphu, probably con- 

 stitute a single species which tends to produce local races. 



312. Sebsethe elongata, Jacoby. 



Sebcethe elongata, Jac, Arm. Mas. Civ. Genova, xxxii, 1892, p. 922. 



Body elongate, parallel-sided. Colour pale brown ; the three 

 basal segments of the antennae brown, the rest fuscous ; legs 

 rather darker, abdominal sternites also slightly darker. 



Bead impunctate, frontal tubercles well developed, subquadrate; 

 eyes very large ; lower portion of the face deflexed, rather con- 

 cave ; maxillary palpi not much thickened. Antennae extending 

 almost to the end of the elytra, the third and following segments 

 elongate and more or less nearly equal to each other. Prothorax 

 more than twice as broad as long, not narrowed in front, sides 

 slightly rounded, with a rather broad margin; surface impunctate, 

 with several ill-defined depressions. Elytra parallel-sided, rather 

 broadly margined, very closely and finely punctate. Underside: 

 first segment of posterior tarsi rather longer than the two following 

 segments together. 



In the female the antennae are much shorter. 



Length, 5 mm. 



Burma : Kareu Mts. (Fed). 



Type in the Genoa Museum. I have not seen the type of this 

 species. 



