PITELUS. 87 



Ptyelus concolor, Walk. Lint Horn, iii, p. 715 (1851). 



Ptyelus dolosu.s Wa/k. List Horn. Sinq.l. p. 189 (1858) ; Stdl, Ofv. 



Vet.-Ak. Fork. I8U2, p. 49;}. ' 



Ptyelus imnuitatus, Walk. J. Limi. Soc, Zool. \, p. 96 (1857). 

 Ptyelus rotuudatus, *S'u/». m Thorns. Arcli. Ent. ii, p. 332 (1858). 

 Ptyelus nataleusis, !sial, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Fork. 1855, p. 97: id. 



(Poophihis) Hem. Afr. iv, p. 74 (186(3). 



Pale tawny or tawny-brown, shortly, thickly, griseously pilose 

 or pubescent ; central apical margin to vertex with five very small 

 black spots ; face (more or less), disk of sternum, and the anterior 

 and intermediate legs fuscous or piceous, apices of the femora 



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Fig. 68. — Fooi^Mlus cost alls. 



pale ; tegmina with the costal margin paler, the paler coloration 

 becoming broader on apical area. 



Lengtli 9 to 10 millim. 



Jlah. Dacca, Pusa (Lefroy) ; Bombay (Leith cf- DLvon) ; Surat 

 (Lefroy) ; Calcutta (Ind. JIus.) ; Bangalore {Cameron) ; Dum Dum 

 (Paiva); Darjiling {Coll. Dist.); Karachi {Coll. List.). Ceylon; 

 Peradeuiya, Nalanda, Anuradhapura {fide Melichar). — Singapore 

 {Wallace). South and AVest Africa {fide ^tal). ]N'atal {Brit. 

 Mus.). jS^yasaland {Coll. Dist.). 



Genus PTYELUS. 



Ptyelus, St. Farg. ^- Serv. Enc. Meth. x, ]). 60S (1825) ; Am;/. S^- Serv. 



i7e»). p. 56G (1843); Matsum. Journ. Sdppora, Ar/r. Coll. p. 48 



(1903). 

 Pliila^nus, Stal, Steit. ent. Zeif. xxv, p. C6 (18G4) ; Fuickr, Biol. 



Centr.-Am., Jihynch. Horn, ii, p. 193 (1897). 



Type, P. spumarius., Linn., a Pala^arctic species. 



Distribution. Almost universally distributed. 



Head with the vertex much broader than long, convexly rounded 

 anteriorly ; face more or less convexly produced, transversely 

 striate but medially interrupted ; clypeus not passing the apices of 

 anterior coxaj ; neither vertex nor pronotum centrally carinate ; 

 pronotum large, convex at anterior margin, deeply subangularly 

 sinuate before scutellum ; tegmina coriaceous, about three times 



