THERATES. 



299 



Length 8 millim. (7 mm. sine lahro). 



Assam : Khasi Hills ; Lower Si am : Lakhon. 



The variety differs from the type in having the orbits of the 

 eyes more raised and straighter, and the intermediate portion of 

 the pronotum narrower ; the yellow humeral lunule is much longer 

 (evidently extending beyond one-third of the elytra), and the 

 basal spot is also larger and connate with the humeral spot ; the 

 discoidal central transverse yellow spot is slightly larger, and the 

 apical fourth or fifth part of the elytra is indistinctly flavescent ; 

 the insect appears also to be a little larger than the type form. 



Length 8-9 millim. 



Sikkim : Kurseong, Darjiling district, E. Himalayas, 5000 feet 

 (Annandale). 



Mr. Annandale found the species to be common in damp shady 

 places, among shrubs and herbage, in June 1908. 



Dr. Horn says that the anterior half of the elytra shows exactly 

 the same pattern as Therates Jcraatzi, W. Horn, from Penang, but 

 the discoidal patch of the latter is much larger ; on the other 

 hand, the apex of the elytra of the new form is much more broadly 

 yellowish. There are differences also in the sulci on the front. 

 The pronotum of T. hraatzi is broader than in the var. annandalei, 

 and its extreme apex shows a distinct but slight transverse 

 emargination. 



80. Therates waagenorum, W. Horn. 



Therates icaa<je7iorum, W. Horn, Deutsche Ent. Zeitschr. 1900, 

 p. 198. 



A very small species which is most closely allied to T. gestroi r 

 from which it differs in being smaller, with the head rather nar- 

 rower and the longitudinal furrows near the orbits of the eyes 

 deeper and more produced behind ; the forehead between these is 

 narrower and has two punctiform impressions behind ; the w T hole 

 pronotum is narrower and the central portion less globose ; the 

 markings of the elytra are similar. The species is also allied 

 to T. cJienrfli, but differs in its smaller head and vertex, the latter 

 being flat and slightly constricted before the anterior margin of 

 the pronotum, which is transverse and narrow; the testaceous 

 markings of the elytra are much the same ; the lunulate mark at 

 the shoulder is produced almost to the suture, follows the latter 

 for a short distance, and then is confluent with the sutural part 

 of the central patch, which is oblique ; the apex of the elytra is 

 indistinctly flavescent ; the legs are for the most part light ; the 

 general colour, however, is variable. 



Length 6^-7 millim. 



Sikkim : Darjiling ; Burma : Pegu ; Tenasserim. 



I have not seen this species, but from the description it appears 

 to be very closely allied to one or two neighbouring species, and 

 to be somewhat hard to separate from them. 



