62 PTGIDICRANID-i:. 



Table of Species. 



1. Forceps of S with a crested tooth 

 above ; elytra reddish, with dark 

 borders ; pronotum with two black 



bands cumingi, Dohrn, p. 62. 



1.1. Forceps of <5 unarmed above; elytra 

 dark; pronotum dark testaceous 

 with three pale lines niebieri, Dohrn, p. 63. 



:23. Cranopygia cumingi, Dohrn. (Figs. 14 & 94.) 



Pygidicrana cumingi, Dohrn, (63) p. o4; Scudd. (76) p. 328 ; Borm. 



■^(00-) p. 21; Bun; (01) p. 71, pi. B. fig-. 26 ; Kirby, (04) p. 5. 

 Cranopygia cumingi, Burr, (08') p. 389. 



Size medium. Antennfe with two basal segments dark, the rest 

 lighter reddish brown. Head black, with an ill-defined yellowish 

 transverse spot in the centre of the occiput ; in the male there are 

 distinct ocular keels. Pronotum longer than broad, nearly parallel- 

 sided, anterior and posterior margins convex, the angles rounded 

 orange-yellow, with two broad black longitudinal bands. Scutellum 

 yellowish, small, especially in the female. Elytra rather stout, 

 truncate apically, orange-yellow with a black border. Wings 

 abortive. Legs orange-yellow, with long bristles. Abdomen not 

 cylindrical, depressed in both sexes ; parallel-sided in the female, 

 regularly Midening posteriorly in the male; blackish, with yellowish 

 indistinct markings above near the base. Last dorsal segment 

 ample ; in the 6 transverse, very wide, very finely granular like 

 the rest of the abdomen, at each side raised into an irregular crest- 

 like fold extending down to the postero-exterior angles, postei'ior 

 margin rounded ; in the $ not wider than the abdomen, 

 not transverse, sides not crested, and posterior margin rounded. 

 Penultimate ventral segment of d rather narrow; in $ triangular, 

 rounded at the apex. Forceps with the branches in the J 

 broad and flat, armed near the base on the upper margin with a 

 strong nearly vertical triangular tooth ; regularly tapering, both 

 branches curved towards the left, the inner margins subcon- 

 tiguous, the apices hooked ; in the 2 depressed, contiguous and 

 straight. 



6 2 



Length of body 20-5 mm. 21 mm. 



„ forceps 5-5 „ 4 „ 



Variation. — The elytra are sometimes entirely black, with a faint 

 reddish tinge in the centre. The wings are sometimes visible, in 

 which case they are yellow, with a fuscous outer boi-der. The 

 variety with fully developed wings and uniform fuscous elytra is 

 also a little smaller. (Length of body 17-5 mm., length of forceps 

 3 mm.) Por it the name var. greeni is proposed. 



Ceylon : Punduluoya (typ. form and var., coll. Burr); Watawella 

 (var., coll. Burr). 



