DASTTALGUS. 



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but most closely packed at the front, inner and bind borders. 



There are traces of a dark spot at the middle of each elytron, 

 perhaps conspicuous in well-preserved 

 specimens. 



It is a small species with long slender 

 legs. The profhorax is rather long, 

 with the sides very gently curved and 

 converging to the front angles, which 

 are acute : it is strongly grooved longi- 

 tudinally in the middle, but scarcely 

 carinate. The basal margin forms a 

 very obtuse angle in the middle. The 

 scutellum is rather large, moderately 

 broad, and smooth and shining. The 

 elytra are rather deeply striated and 

 separately rounded at the posterior 

 margin. The terminal spiracles are 

 moderately prominent and there are two 

 slight and rather distant tufts of setse 

 at the hind margin of the propiigidium. 



The front tibia is moderately broad, with the 1st and 3rd teeth 



long and slender, and the 2nd, 4th and 5th very short and blunt. 



The basal joint of the liind tarsus is a little longer than the second. 

 Length 4 mm. ; hrcadih 2 mm. 

 Ceylon. 

 Type in the British Museum. 



Fig. 57. 

 Dasi/valyus addcndus. 



231. Dasyvalgus kanarensis, sp. n. 



Chestnut-red, clothed closely and uniformly beneath, and irre- 

 gulai'ly above, with yellowish scales. There is a patch of dark 

 scales before the middle of each elytron, and the light scales are 

 densest immediately before and behind this and at the front, inner 

 and hind borders of each elytron. The pronotum is fairly well 

 covered and bears two median and four basal tufts of erect setse, 

 and the propygidium and pygidium are densely scaly, the former 

 bearing at its hind margin two strong tufts of a darker colour. 



The body is slightly elongate and the legs are moderately slender. 

 The clypeus is narrow and entire. The pronotum has the sides well 

 rounded in front and very little diverging behind, the posterior 

 angles rounded off and the base regularly curved ; there is a 

 deep median longitudinal groove, but its sides are not strongly 

 carinate. The scutellum is smooth, shining, and rather long ; and 

 the elytra are deeply striated, with the hind margins separately 

 rounded. The terminal spiracles are very prominent but blunt. 

 The front tibia is stout and its 1st and 3rd teeth very long and 

 sharp, the 2nd and 5th strong and the 4th small but moderately 

 sharp ; there is a very deep notch between the 2nd and 3rd teeth. 

 The first four joints of the Jiind tarsve are nearly equal in length, 

 but the basal joint is stouter. 



