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the others ; the interstices are flat and impunctate ; placed near 
the suture is a black longitudinal band which, although of variable 
length, does not extend to the base or apex on each elytron. The 
femora are armed with a very small tooth and like the underside 
are fulvous, their apices and the tibiae and tarsi black ; claws bifid. 
Var. Entirely fulvous. 
Length 4 mm. 
Hob. Burma : Teinzo ; Bhamo. 
R. bimaculata may be known by the finely punctured striae of 
the elytra and the nearly impunctate thorax. 
673. Rhyparida assamensis, sp. n. 
Beneath piceous; head and basal joints of antennae fulvous; 
thorax black. Elytra black, a broad longitudinal band at the middle, 
widened near the apex, fulvous. 
Broadly ovate, rather flattened. Head elongate, nearly im- 
punctate, a small central fovea on the vertex ; clypeus separated 
from the face bv a shallow groove, widened in front, its anterior 
edge tri-emarginate ; palpi slender, flavous ; antennae filiform, 
basal three or four joints fulvous, rest piceous, apex of each joint 
paler. Thorax twice as broad as long, narrowed anteriorly, sides 
strongly rounded at the middle, surface with a small fovea at sides, 
impunctate, extreme anterior margin fulvous, rest black. Elytra 
closely punctured in longitudinal striae, the interstices slightly 
convex. Intermediate and posterior pair of tibiae emarginate at 
apex ; claws bifid. 
Length 5 mm. 
Hcib. Assam : Patkai Mts. Type in Brit. Mtis. 
674. Rhyparida quincpiemaculata, J ac . P. Z. 8. 1887, p. 75, pi. x, fig. 3. 
Rufous ; the last eight joints of the antennae and the legs black ; 
thorax sparingly and finely punctured; elytra regularly punctate- 
striate, a sutural spot at the middle, another at the shoulder, and 
a third near the apex of each elytron, black ; femora toothed. 
Head with a deep fovea at the vertex, not visibly punctured ; 
the clypeus separated from the face by a slight transverse depres- 
sion. Antennae half the length of the body, black, the basal 
three joints fulvous, the third and fourth joints slender, of equal 
length, the following joints slightly depressed and shorter. Thorax 
transversely convex, about three times as broad as long, the sides 
rounded ; the surface rufous, very finely and sparingly punctured, 
with a small obscure piceous spot at the sides. Elytra with a 
distinct transverse depression below the base, the punctured striae 
very distinct anteriorly, less so posteriorly ; each elytron with a 
square-shaped spot at the shoulder, a triangular spot near the 
apex, and a common sutural elongate spot near the middle, black. 
Sides of the breast and the legs black : all the femora with a small 
tooth ; claws bifid. 
Length 4 mm. 
Rah. Ceylon. 
