246 CETOxiix.^. 



Lenfjtli 4'5-5"5 mm. ; breadiJi 2*.3-3 mm. 



Bombay : Kanara {T. B. D. Bell). 



Type in the British Museum ; cotypes in coll. II .E. Andrewes. 



Genus CHARITOVALGUS. 

 Charitovaljru,*, Kolhe, Stettin. Ent. Zeit. 1904, p. 20. 



Type, Valrpis pulcher, Kraatz (Malacca, Borneo, and Sumatra), 



Bange. North India, Burma and the Malayan Kegion. 



Body long and narrow, clothed with close-lying scales. Legs 

 stout, with the tarsi rather slender and flattened: front tibia 

 armed with three acute teeth, folloA^ed by one or two very slight 

 and blunt ones ; middle and hind tibiae short and thick, smooth, 

 without spines or hairs ; hind femora rather long and slender ; 

 first joint of the hind tarsus as long as, or longer than, the second 

 and third together. Prothorax rather narrower than the elytra 

 together, with two longitudinal carina-. Elytra straight at the 

 exti'emity and the sutural angles right angles. Terminal spiracles 

 situated uj)on very long and sharp tubercles or spines. Pygidium 

 not much broader than long, rather flat. 



5 . Tarsi shorter and thicker than in the male, elytra shorter, 

 abdomen more exposed above and produced at its extremity into 

 a slender style. 



Key to the Species. 



1 (2) Front tibitc long and slender pictits, Hope, p. 246. 



2 (1) Front tibiaj short. 



3 (4) Scutellum large lonfi^ilus, Gestro, p. 247. 



4 (3) Scutellum small andamanicus, Kolbe, p. 248. 



232. Charitovalgus pictus. (Plate II, figs. 10 & 11.) 



Acanthuru3 pictus, Hope,* Grays Zool. Miscellany, 1831, p. 24. 

 Valgus pictus, Burm., Handh. Ent. iii, 1842, p. 721. 



Black or deep chocolate-brown, clothed with scales of the same 

 colour, with grey scales upon the legs, lower surface, the sides 

 and middle of the pronotum, the scutellum and transverse bands 

 common to both elytra at the base, middle and apex, the middle 

 band pointing obliquely forward at each end. 



In the male the propygidium, pygidium, the middle of the abdo- 

 men, aiul the sutural margins of the elytra (dilating anteriorly 

 to the shoulders) are covered with bright orange-coloured scales. 

 These are entirely absent in the female, which has the middle and 

 sides of the propygidium and pygidium, in addition to the parts 

 already described, decorated with grey scales. 



It is a large species and very elongate, with slender legs. The 

 sides of the ^)/v)^7/ojv?.c are coarsely serrated and distinctly con- 

 tracted behind the middle. The dorsal carina^ arc stz'ong and 

 slightly contracted and tuberculated a little behind the middle; 



