PCECILOCERLS. 



Ke)j to the Species. 



171 



1 (2) Abdomeu with red spots tesseUatus, BoL, p. 171. 



2 (1) Abdomen with no red spnts. 



3 (6) Antennae not red at the b-ise. 



4 (6) Antennte riuoed with black and yellow, pictus, F., p. 172. 



5 (4) Antennfe green punctiventris,^e\\.,-^.l1^. 



(j (3) Antennae red at base ornatus, Burm., p. 173. 



203. Pcecilocerus tessellatus, Bol. 



Pacilocerus tessellatus, Bolivar/ Bol. See. Espah. Hist. Nat. iv, 

 1904, pp. 432, 433. 



Violet-brown, thickly tessellated with yellow ; autenuae yellow, 

 ringed with blue-black ; head, pronotuni, and abdomen regularly 

 tessellated with small yellow callosities. Head above with an 

 oblique yellow band on each side, and below the eyes a yellow 

 band running through the lower border or the prouotum ; 

 fastigium transverse. Prouotum not constricted, subcylindrical, 

 expanded behind, the sulci not strongly marked, and the hinder 

 sulcus placed scarcely behind the middle ; the metazona slightly 

 carinated in the middle, and very narrowly bordered with yellow 

 behind. Legs striped with blue-black. 



Length ($ nymph), 44 mm. ; prouotum, 21-5 mm. ; hind femur, 

 20 mm. 



Madras: Bellary. 



Type in the Paris Museum. 



[The immature specimen upon which the following description 

 is based, was treated by the author as a new species, bub as it is 

 probable that the insect is only the nymph of P. picttis, it seems 

 undesirable to propose a new name for it.] 



204. Pcecilocerus sp. 



Blue-black, thickly tessellated with yellow, and spotted with 

 red; antenna; ringed with black and yellow, narrowly towards 

 the base, and broadly beyond ; head, prouotum, and abdomen 

 regularly tessellated with" small yellow callosities. Head and 

 prouotum with a very line median carina ; head with a diverging 

 yellow band within' each eye, extending; to the front of the 

 pronotum, and another below the eye extending over the lo^^■er 

 border of the pronotum to the middle coxte ; fastigium broader 

 than long. Pronotum gradually widened but not raised behind, 

 with the sulci only slightly marked, with three red spots on each 

 side arranged in a triangle, one between the two hinder sulci, 

 and two on the hinder lobe ; there is also a trace of another on 

 each side behind the upper yellow band of the head. Abdomeu 



