224 EUSTETHA VARIABILIS. 



Eustetlia variabilis, n. sp. 



Oblong-ovate ; breast , abdomen and posterior legs black ; 

 antennae and anterior legs testaceous; above pale fulvous; 

 elytra closely punctured, a spot surrounding the scutellum 

 and the apex, black. — Length 3 lines. 



var. a. Scutellar spot absent. 



var. h. Above reddish fulvous , the rest as in var. a. 



Head impunctate , deeply transversely grooved between the 

 eyes; frontal tubercles transverse; epistome impunctate, 

 palpi subclaviform , fulvous; antennae half the length of 

 the body , flavous , second and third joints very short , 

 fourth joint the longest and much longer than the three 

 preceeding ones united ; thorax nearly three times as broad 

 as long , the sides slightly rounded , anterior angles obli- 

 quely rounded , surface with a deep oblique depression at 

 each side , impunctate ; scutellum triangular , piceous ; elytra 

 widened towards the apex, closely and distinctly punctu- 

 red , the punctures arranged in lines near the suture ; a 

 more or less broad, triangular shaped black spot is pla- 

 ced across the suture at the base , surrounding the scutel- 

 lum , and another more elongate narrow spot at the ex- 

 treme apex, extending in a point a short distance up the 

 lateral margin; underside, posterior femora and tibiae 

 black , anterior legs and tarsi fulvous ; metasternum pro- 

 duced in a conical short protuberance between the inter- 

 mediate legs; claws appendiculate. 



The present insect differs from the typical form {E. Jia- 

 viventris Baly) in the very long fourth joint of the anten- 

 nae, the same joint in the last named species being only 

 double the length of the preceeding; the elytra are also 

 here less regularly punctate-striate ; the other generic cha- 

 racters , especially the produced metasternum and the closed 

 anterior coxal cavities, are however all present and prove 

 the insect to belong to the present genus, of which several 

 species from China and India have been described by the 

 author of the genus. 



Notes from tlie Leyden M.UHUU£a, Vol. VI. 



