PTYELUS. 



89 



Vertex of head distinctly shorter than central length of pro- 

 notum, which is posteriorly angularly sinuate; tegniina two and a 

 half times as lonp^ as broad. 



Length 10 to 12 niilliin. 



Hub. Calcutta {Coll. List.) ; Bombay {Dixon) ; jS'agpar, Mun- 

 shiganj and Pusa {Lefroy). Burma ; Maymyo {Bhujham). 



2233. Ptyelits praefractus, sp. n. 



Head and pronotum pale ochraceous ; basal area of pronotmii, 

 scutellum, and tegmina very dark castaneous-brown ; an irregular 

 transverse fascia crossing tegmen at middle and an oblique sub- 

 apical costal spot greyish-white ; body beneath and legs pale 



ochraceous ; a marginal spot before 

 each eye, disk of sternum between 

 anterior and intermediate coxa), and 

 apices of tarsi dark castaneous : 

 vertex of head with an enclosed 

 rectangular space at anterior mar- 

 gin, the head much shorter than 

 the pronotum ; pronotum finely 

 tomentose, with a transverse series 

 of fine irreo-ular foveations on its 

 anterior area; tegmina finely tomen- 

 tose ; face brond, globose, finely 

 transversely striate on each side, 

 centrally longitudinally flattened 

 and non-striate. 

 Vur. Tegmina concolorous, without the greyish-white markings. 

 Length 11 millim. 

 Huh. Trivandrum {Coll. Dist.). Burma {Coll. Dlsf.). 



Fiof. (■)',). — Ftyclus lyrcefractus. 



2234. PtyelllS hirsutus, KirJnj (Phila?inis), /. Linn. Sac, Zool. xxiv- 

 ].. KiO (1S91) ; MelicJi. (Ptyelus) Horn. Faun. Ceylon, p. 134 

 (1903j. 



" Brownish-testaceous ; front transversely striated, separated by 

 a broad undivided medial space; two black spots, slightly showing- 

 above, just below the middle of the convex and somewhat flattened 

 I'im of the head ; antennae, tips of hind tibite, and tarsal claws 

 black ; tegmina pointed, with a pale oblique fascia on the 

 costa before the tip, a black spot at the tip, and another in a pale 

 ring, on the inner margin, at the extremity of the principal 

 nervure ; in one specimen a great part of the outer two-thirds of 

 the tegmina is blackish on the costa, as far as the oblique band ; it 

 is intersected at about two-thirds of tlie length of the costa by a 

 square pale patch on the costa, nearly connected with the point of 

 a pale subtriangular mark in the middle of the tegmina ; the 

 hinder portion of this dark space is concave towards the luiddle 

 of the tegmina, and runs narrowly towards the inner margin of 



