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75. Therates hennigi, W. Horn. 



Therates hennigi, W. Horn, Ent. Nacbtr. xxiv, 1898, p. 178. 



Allied to T. dormeri, which it resembles in size, but differs from 

 it in being a little smaller and less robust, and in having the pro- 

 notum narrower. Also allied to T. chenelli, but differs in its much 

 larger size, and in having the forehead between the eyes broader 

 and natter and more abrupt and deflexed in front ; the pronotum 

 is very slightly shorter and broader; the elytra are much more 

 coarsely sculptured behind, but a little more finely and much more 

 diffusely than at the base, and are entirely flavo-testaceous, with 

 the exception of two purplish aeneous spots on each, which touch 

 the margin and almost reach the suture, the one a little constricted 

 iu the middle and situated a little before the centre, the other 

 larger and irregular and almost round, situated between this and 

 the apex ; the antennae have the last four joints strongly dilated, 

 compressed and dark, the preceding one being brownish testaceous ; 

 the front parts are cyaneous, and the abdomen black with a narrow 

 yellow margin ; the legs are flavo-testaceous, with the tarsi mostly 

 pitchy and with other dark markings. 



Length 12 millim. (1 1 mm. sine lahro). 



Assam : Khasi Hills. 



76. Therates dohertyi, W. Bom. 



Therates dohertyi, W. Horn, Stettin. Ent. Zeit. 1905, p. 277. 



One of the smallest species 

 of the genus ; labrum reddish 

 testaceous ; head and pronotum 

 metallic blue or aeneous ; head 

 with two strong frontal sulci 

 which terminate behind in more 

 or less distinct impressions, some- 

 times obsolete ; antennae pitchy 

 red, with the basal joints darker ; 

 palpi testaceous ; pronotum less 

 transverse and more globular than 

 in T. chenelli ; elytra dark, with 

 an elongate testaceous spot at each 

 shoulder, sometimes encircling the 

 raised basal callosities, which are 

 marked with testaceous at the 

 base ; there is also on each just 

 behind middle a rather narrow 

 straight or lunate spot, and the 

 apex is testaceous ; the sculpture 

 Fig. ] 35.— Therates dohertyi. is distinct, but more or less diffuse 



towards base, and almost obsolete 

 < n the posterior third ; legs testaceous but somewhat darker at 



