PYGIDIOBANA. 55. 



5. Size large (32-35 mm.) ; head 

 black with au irregular tawny 



spot on the occiput '. mannoricrura, Sarv., 



5.5. Size medium (20-21 mm.) ; head [p. 58. 



tawny with a blaclv border .... siamensis, Dohrn, 



[p. 59. 



16. Pygidicrana picta, Guerin. (Fig. 10.) 



Pygidicrana picta, Guei: (38) p. 236, fig. 1 : Dohrn, (63) p. 50 ;. 

 Scudd. (70) p. 329; Bonn. (00") p. 18; Burr, (00) p. 48, (01 )• 

 p. 69, (00) p." 387, (08^) p. 384; Kirbi/, (04) p. 5. 



Size medium. Antennae with 35 segments, light brown, except 

 the two basal segments which are testaceous. Head testaceous, 

 the mouth-parts blackish, occiput bordered with black, with a black 

 central longitudinal stripe which is sometimes broken in the 

 middle. Pronotuni subovate, slightly longer than broad, roundly 

 truncate posteriorly, testaceous, with two irregular broad blackish 

 bands whicb vary in detail but converge about the middle, being 

 broader anteriorly and straight posteriorly. Scutellum testaceous. 

 Elytra ample, rather short, with a narrow testaceous stripe near 

 the axillary and costal margins and a central stripe which may be 

 broad or narrow, entire or broken into a series of spots, but does 

 not extend much beyond half way down the elytra. Wings 

 testaceous with a fuscous band. Legs testaceous^ with narrow 

 fuscous stripes and sometimes with spots. Abdomen of c^ cylindrical, 

 gently widened posteriorly; of $ more depressed, nearly parallel- 

 sided ; blackish with a dense short pale pubescence. Last dorsal 

 segment of S ample, scarcely wider than the abdomen, subquadrate, 

 punctate, pubescent, the posterior margin rounded, posterior angles 

 rectangular. Penultimate ventral segment broadly rounded in the c? ; 

 narrow, triangular, and apically rounded in the $ . Forceps with 

 the branches stout, trigonal, depressed ; in c? subcontiguous at the 

 base, rather elongate, gently arcuate, enclosing a narrow elongate 

 oval area, the inner margins crenulate ; meeting just before 

 the apex, at a rather strong, blunt, dilated tooth, beyond which 

 they are attenuate, converging, crenulate, acuminate and hooked at 

 the apex ; in the $ subcontiguous, straight, regularly acuminate,, 

 crenulate on the basal half of the inner mar<?in. 



S. India : Tinnevelli District, Kudiraimalai (Brif. Mus.) ; 

 Bengal: Calcutta {Ind. Mus.); Assam: Kurseong {Ind. M%is., 

 Brit. Mus., Brussels 3his.) ; Bhutan : Maria Basti (Madrid Mus.) ; 

 Ceylon : Dedurin and Kurunegala ( Willey, December), Trincomali,. 

 May 1908 (Brit. Mus.). 



Dr. Annandale tells us that this species is common in Calcutta 

 among dead leaves at the foot of trees. It belongs to the group 



