DASY VALGUS. 237 



The unique type is a female and has a flat semicircular ventral 

 plate to the pygidium. 



Length 6*5 mm. ; breadth 3*5 mm, 



Burma. 



Type in the British Museum. 



This species very closely resembles D. luetuosns, Gestro, from 

 which it differs by the more evenly toothed front tibia, longer 

 tarsi and the more rounded sides of the prothorax. By analogv 

 with D. dohrni, Kolbe, it seems probable that the unknown males 

 of both these species are more brightly adorned than the female. 



218. Dasy valgus militaris, sp. u. 



Black, with the last two segments of the abdomen scarlet above 

 and beneath. The body is rather thinly clotlied with yellow scales, 

 but those at the hind angles of the prothorax, above and beneath, 

 upon the mesosterual epimera, the front borders of the elytra and 

 along the middle of the propygidium and pygidium are larger and 

 closer, forming bright orange-coloured patches. 



The clypms is long, shining, strongly punctured, and feebly 

 notched at the middle of the front margin. The sides of the 

 prothorax are strongly rounded in front and nearly parallel 

 behind, the hind angles are very obtuse and the base strongly 

 rounded. The dorsal carinoe are gently curved, converging to 

 behind the middle and from there strongly diverging. There is a 

 pair of tufted tubercles near the middle and a pair on each side 

 near the base. The scutellum is long and narrow, and the elytra 

 are feebly striated, with the hind margins slightly curved. The 

 terminal spiracles are moderately prominent, the p)y(jidium and 

 propygidium ai'e closely and coarsely pitted, and the latter bears 

 two tufts of black setoe near the middle of the hind margin. The 

 front tibia has the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 5th teeth very sharp and the 

 4th obtuse, and the basal joint of the hind tarsus is nearly twice 

 as long as the 2nd. 



5 . There is a small, flattened and closely setose, ventral area 

 to the pygidium. 



Length 8'5 mm. ; breadth 4'5 ram. 



Madras : Nilgiri Hills {Sir G, F. Hampson). 



Type in the British Museum. 



I have seen only the single female type specimen. 



219, Dasy valgus stictopygus. 



Valgus stictopygus, Gestro* Ann. Mas. Genova, (2) x, 1891, 

 p. 857. 



Black above and brown beneath, with the abdomen and legs 

 reddish, the propygidium and pygidium bright red ; decorated 

 with spots or patches of pale yellow scales distributed as follows : 

 one at each hind angle of the prothorax (above and beneath), 

 two placed obliquely near the middle of each elytron, four in a 



