PEOTiETIA. 149 



scutellum, elytra and pygidium brick-red and opaque ; decorated 

 with bright yellow as follows : — a narrow marginal line at the 

 anterior half of the pronotum on each side, a patch upon each 

 mesosternal epimeron, one before the middle and one behind the 

 middle of the lateral margin of each elytron and one in each 

 apical angle, a spot on each side of the pygidium, and large patches 

 at the sides of the metasternum and abdomen. 



It is rather narrowly OA^al and depressed in shape. The clypeus 

 is finely punctured and feebly eraarginate in front. The prothorax 

 is sparingly punctured at the sides, with the margins feebly 

 curved and the hind angles well-marked. The scutellum is rather 

 narrow and sharply pointed. The elytra are rather flat, punc- 

 tured in longitudinal lines, well sinuated at the sides and sharply 

 angular at the apices. The injgidiv.m is finely rugose, the sides of 

 the metasternum and abdomen are coarsely rugose and clothed with 

 yellow hairs, and the middle of the abdomen is finely punctured. 

 The mesosternal process is almost circular. The front tibia is 

 armed with three slight teeth, and the middle and liind tibice bear 

 rather long fringes of pale yellow hairs. The hind tibiae are 

 truncate at the end. 



I have not seen a male of this species. 



Length 20 mui. ; breadth 10 mm. 



Ceylon. 



Type in coll. O. E. Jauson. 



Wrong figure-references are given for this insect both by 

 Schaura and Gemminser & Harold. 



128. Protastia cinerea. 



Pseudaplasta cinerea, Kraatz, Deutsche Ent. Zeitschr. xx, 1898, 

 p. 93. 



Black or deep red-brown, with the head, prothorax, scutellum 

 nd elytra covered with buff-coloured or greyish opaque matter, 

 rather darker on each side of the middle of the pronotum, a,nd 

 decorated above w ith minute white spots, viz., one upon each side 

 of the disc of the prothorax and from six to eight upon each 

 elytron. There are three spots, frequently coalescing, upon each 

 side of the pygidium, and the sides of the sternum and abdomen 

 are broadly white. 



This is a small species, short, stout and convex. The head is 

 rugose and setose, with the clypeus rather long and the margin 

 entire and feebly reflexed. The prothorax has the lateral margins 

 very obtusely angulated, the hind angles indicated and the base 

 very feebly emarginate in the middle. The scutellum is very short 

 and its sides nearly straight. The elytra have rows of large 

 punctures, the lateral margins are strongly sinuated and the 

 apical angles sharp but scarcely produced. The pygidium is 

 rugose and the abdomen very sparingly but distinctly punctured 

 at the sides. The front tibia is armed with three sharp teeth, 



