EDISTUS. 
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posterior spot transverse, smaller, slightly curved, hernora with 
a small tooth beneath. 
Length 4 mm. 
Hah. Southern Bombay : Belgaum, Kanara. 
Differs from C. indica in the angulated thorax, smaller elytral 
fulvous patches and their line puncturation ; also in the deep 
black general colour. 
646. Callisina burmanica, Jac. Ann. Soc. Ent . Belg. xxxix, 1895, 
p. 277. 
Black ; basal four joints of antennae fulvous ; elytra with a 
transverse narrowly divided spot at base and another near apex 
fulvous. 
Head strongly and closely punctured, longitudinally strigose on 
the vertex ; eyes with a sunken 
orbit ; palpi pale fulvous ; an- 
tennae black on the terminal 
joints, which are gradually and 
broadly dilated. Thorax half as 
broad again as long, sides with 
reflexed margins, strongly dentate 
in the middle, disc strongly and 
closely punctured. Elytra much 
wider at base than the thorax, 
subquadrate-ovate, basal portion 
swollen, rest of surface strongly 
punctate-striate, punctures at the 
sides rather more confused ; the 
fulvous basal patch subdivided 
within the shoulders by a single 
Fig. 127. — Callisina burmanica. row of punctures, otherwise im- 
punctate, the patch does not 
exteud to the basal margin but laterally to as far as the second 
row of punctures, and longitudinally for about one-fifth the length 
of elytra ; posterior spot subquadrate, rather small, placed near 
the apex. Eemora strongly incrassate and dentate. 
Length 6 mm. 
Hah. Burma. 
Much more strongly punctured than C. halgi, the fulvous 
elytral spots of different shape and the anterior one subdivided, 
the thorax strongly dentate. 
Genus EDISTUS. 
Edistus, Lef'ev. Bull. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxvii, 1884, p. ccii. 
Type, E. fidgidus , Lef6v., from Bintang Isl. 
Range. Africa: India; Malayan Subregion. 
Short and ovate ; glabrous ; head exserted, deflexed, vertex 
