PBOTiETIA. 153 



Var. horni, Kr. 



This name has been given to the Ceylonese representatives of 

 the species, in which the ground-colour seems to be usually black 

 instead of coppery-brown. 



Type in the German Entomological National Museum. 



132. Protastia bidentipes. 



Protfetia bideutipes, Arroiv,* Ann. Nat. Hist. 1007, (7) xix, p. 351. 



Sooty-black or piceous black, with the head, legs and underside 

 shining, decorated with yellow spots distributed as follows : — a 

 pair upon the vertex of the head, a pair at the middle and three at 

 each lateral margin of the pronotum, the two posterior ones some- 

 times uniting, three placed in an oblique Hne upon the anterior 

 half of each elytron, two adjoining the suture posteriorly and four 

 adjoining the lateral margin, and a large patch at each side of the 

 pygidium. There are also patches upon the mesosternal epimera, 

 and the sides of the sternum and abdomen. 



The head is thickly punctured, with the dypeiis long and deeply 

 notched in front. il\\Q protliomx is very transverse, distinctly but 

 not densely punctured all over, with the sides strongly angulated 

 in the middle and nearly parallel from there to the base, which is 

 strongly emarginate before the scutellum. The smtellumhvoXhev 

 narrow. The ehitra are parallel-sided, punctate-striate, with the 

 sutural angles rather spinose. The mesosternal process is moderately 

 prominent, nearly circular and not much dilated at the end. The 

 metasternum is rugose at the sides, and the abdomen sparsely 

 punctured. The front tihice are bidentate in both sexes. The 

 pygidium is pubescent in two female specimens in the British 

 Museum collection, but in a male in the Indian Museum, labelled 

 (perhaps wrongly) " Eangoon," the setae are scarcely visible. The 

 yellow markings in that specimen are also of a deeper colour. 



Length 18 mm. ; breadth 10 mm. 



NicoBAE Is. ; ? Burma : Eangoon. 



Type in the British Museum. 



133. Protsetia rana, sp. n. 



Deep chocolate-colour and velvety above, with a close indefinite 

 reticulation of ochreous-yellow upon the head, prothorax, elytra, 

 pygidium and the sides" of the body beneath, absent from the 

 scutellum and in part from the posterior half of the pronotum, 

 upon which there is a small spot at each side of the basal margin. 

 The legs and lower surface are shining metallic crimson. 



The form is convex and compact, and the legs short. The upper 

 surface is entirely opaque, rather strongly, but not closely or con- 

 spicuously, punctured, sparingly set \\\i\\ minute yellow setae, and 

 the legs and the sides of the body beneath are clothed with yellow 

 hairs. The head is small and the chjpeus rather long and not dilated 



