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Show 1897.] OF T H E FAMILY ENDOMYCHIDJE. 461 Mas ; abdomine medio late clepresso, utrlnque alte carinato, qulnto ventrall arcuatim emarginata. Hab. INDIA, N.E. Manipur (Doherty), Dunsiri Valley (H. H. Godwin-Austen, Mus. Calcutta). This species is nearly allied to E. hardwickii (ccelestlnus, Gerst.), from which it is distinguished by the more shining elytra, which have the yellow spots larger and more nearly united, leaving a much narrower fascia across the middle, the two posterior touch the margin and leave the suture only very narrowly violet. The elytra are of a different form, being more parallel and narrower, especially in the male. The spots do not pass the limb of the margin, the epipleuras being dark. I have been acquainted with this insect for some years from very old examples from the Calcutta Museum. Mr. Doherty has, however, sent half a dozen beautiful specimens from Manipur. EUCTEANUS DOHERTYI, n. sp. (Plate XXXII. fig. 11.) E. marseuli, Gorham, similis et ajfinls ; hreviter oblong us, vlolaceo-mlcans, nitldus, crebre, minute, sed punctatus; antennarum capitulo late dilatato; elytris quatuor magnls, dilute aurantlacis, posteriore plerumque Long. 8-5-9-5 millim. 2 ? Hab. INDIA, Manipur (Dohertg). B U R M A , Ruby Mines (Dohertg). The head and thorax are shining, thickly but distinctly punctured ; the latter has an oblique transverse fovea on each side, the front is also transversely impressed, and there is an irregular fovea in the middle of the base. The elytra are thickly punctured, the punctures often confluent in lines. The antennae have the third, fourth, and fifth joints subequal, but gradually decreasing in length to the eighth ; the ninth is as long as the third and only a little widened ; the tenth is obconic, nearly equilateral, the apical joint enormously enlarged and spathulate. The eyes are but moderately, but under a quarter-inch focus distinctly granulate. The underside is closely and very finely punctured, shining and black. The shoulders are ridged but not projecting, nor is the ridge sharp, it in fact ruus on to beyond the middle and forms a sort of false epipleura ; the true epipleuras are black and defined at the shoulder by an indented line. This character will distinguish E. dohertyi from E. marseuli, where the ridge is acute and does not extend beyond the yellow shoulder-spot. Although there are eight specimens of this in Mr. Fry's collection, I do not find any sexual distinction, and therefore possibly all are females; but of several examples of E. marseuli that I have had the opportunity of examining, and of all the specimens of Bolbomorphi to which they are allied, the same remark applies. BOLBOMORPHUS THERYI, n. sp. (Plate XXXII. fig. 9.) Oblongus, elytris ovatis, niger, nitidus, crebre ac distincte elytris singulis slg natur a flava e fasciis duabus dentlculatls PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1897, No. XXXI. 31 |
