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and slightly by the lateral margins, the second near the apex, 
entire. 
Var. “Elytral bands very narrow, anterior band more or less 
triangular, posterior band interrupted at the sides.” (Lacor claire.) 
Length 8 mm. 
Hab. India ; Assam. 
285. Diapromorplia melanocephala, Jac. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova , 
xxxii, 1892, p. 878. 
Black ; basal joints of antennae, thorax and elytra fulvous, the 
latter with an obscure piceous humeral spot. 
Head black, shining, impunctate, finely strigose and distinctly 
triangularly depressed between the eyes ; antennae black, not 
extending to base of thorax ( 5 ?), basal four joints fulvous, second 
and third joints very small. Thorax twice as broad as long, 
narrowed in front, sides deflexed, lateral margins straight, medial 
lobe rounded, surface entirely impunctate. Scutellum broad, 
pointed at apex, basal portion fulvous, apex black. Elytra sub- 
cylindrical, lateral lobes feeble ; disc with irregular rows of fine 
punctures which are double near the lateral margins ; pygidium 
black, free, finely punctured. Body beneath clothed with yellowish 
pubescence. First joint of posterior tarsi as long as the following 
two joints united. 
Length 8 mm. 
Hab. Burma : Karennee. Type in Genoa Mus. 
Near D. melanopus but larger, elytral lobes not strongly produced, 
puncturation finer and partly geminate. 
286. Diapromorpha burmanica, sp. n. 
Obscure fulvous above, beneath black ; thorax with indistinct 
bands of black at base and sides ; elytra irregularly punctured, 
an obscure transverse band at base and the apical portion black. 
Broad and subcylindrical. Head with bands of pubescence near 
the eyes ; clypeus finely longitudinally strigose ; vertex convex ; 
antennae dark fulvous, the fourth and following joints strongly 
serrate. Thorax strongly transverse, lateral margins rounded, 
median lobe broadly but feebly produced ; the surface entirely 
impunctate, very shining, the greater portion of the base and sides 
black, the rest obscure fulvous, both colours more or less confluent 
and indistinct. Scutellum black. Elytra rather feebly lobed at 
the base, very closely finely and irregularly punctured, apex nearly 
impunctate ; of the fulvous portion only the base, a lateral space 
at middle and a small sutural spot near the apex are visible, all 
the rest is black, very indistinctly separated from the ground-colour. 
Body closely pubescent. The last abdominal segment deeply trian- 
gularly emarginate at apex ( 2 ). 
Length 8 mm. 
Hab. Burma (Co??. Jacoby ); Tharrawaddy, var. (Cell. Andreives). 
