COLOBASPIS. 
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the apex. Underside and legs fulvous, tarsi black, posterior 
femora strongly incrassate, unarmed ( $ ?_) 
Length 9 mm. 
Hob. Burma : Momeit. 
Differs from T. nigroplagiata , Jac. in the number and position 
of the elytral spots. 
169. Temnaspis assamensis, sp. n. 
Flavous ; antennae, two spots on head and some small spots on 
sides of thorax, shoulders and an elongate spot at middle of elytra, 
black ; sides of breast, a femoral spot and tarsi black. 
Surface clothed with black stiff hairs mixed • with fulvous 
shorter pubescence ; head closely punctured near eyes, a black spot 
at base and middle ; antennae black, basal joint flavous below. 
Thorax subquadrately transverse, bisulcate, sides with a black spot 
at anterior angles, a longitudinal depression at each side, surface 
nearly impunctate. Elytra, finely and somewhat closely punctured ; 
posterior femora with a small tooth below and a large elongate 
black spot on outer side. 
Length 7\ mm. 
Hah. Assam (Coll. Jacoby). 
Of nearly similar coloration as T. clownesi, Baly, but smaller, the 
head more finely and sparingly punctured, the thorax impunctate, 
and the elytra much more remotely punctured, the tarsi black. 
Genus COLOBASPIS. 
Colobaspis, Fairm. Ann. Soc. Ent. Bely, xxxviii, 1894, p. 225. 
Pcecilomorpha (part.), Westwood , Baly, Jacoby. 
Type, C . fiavonigra, Fairm., from Tibet. 
Range. India ; China ; Africa. 
Most of the characters like those of Temnaspis, but the thorax 
with a more or less strongly marked tooth at sides near base. 
170. Colobaspis nigriceps, Baly (Temnaspis), A. M. N. H. (3) iii, 
1859, p. 207. 
Rufo-fulvous, pubescent ; head and pleurae nigro-piceous ; the 
lower portion of the face, the antennae, thorax, the anterior and 
intermediate femora, the tibiae and tarsi flavous ; elytra purplish- 
black, a spot at the apex fulvous. 
Head coarsely punctured, front impressed between the eyes with 
a deep fovea, shining black ; lower portion of face and the antennae 
yellow, the latter more than half the length of the body, basal 
four joints shining, sparingly covered with long hairs, the rest 
covered with a short, adpressed concolorous pile. Thorax broader 
than long, subcylindrical, sides slightly rounded, constricted at 
the extreme base and front, produced near the former into an 
indistinct protuberance, above shining yellow, grooved at the apex 
and narrowly so at the extreme base, anterior groove dilated and 
