310 OASSID^. 



2558. Cestius versicolor, sp. n. 



Vertex ochraceous ; pronotura and scutellura greenish-ochra- 

 ceoiis ; body beneath and legs ochraceous ; abdomen above black, 

 the lateral and posterior segmental mai-gins ochraceous ; tegmina 

 dull greyish irrorated with brown, the brown markings most 

 prominent before and beyond middle and on apical area, and 

 usually leaving three pale spots on costal margin ; vertex short, 



Fig. 198. — Cestius versicolor. 



transverse, about three times broader than long, with two small 

 dark spots near base of the same colour as the ocelli ; pronotum 

 with t^\•o transverse foveations near anterior margin and a larger 

 one near each lateral margin ; face smooth with a few obscure 

 darker striations on each lateral margin ; tibise finely longly 

 spinulose. 



Length 4| to 5 millim. 



Hah. Bengal ; Pusa [Lefrorf). 



Genus GONIAGNAT.HUS. 



Goiiiagnathus, Fieb. Verh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, xvi, p. 506 (1866) ; id. 

 Rev. May. Zool. (3) iii, p. 409 (1875) ; Van Duz. Tr. Am. Ent. 

 Soc. xix, p. 299 (1892) ; Melic/i. Horn. Faun. Ceylon, p. 180 (1903). 



Type, G. hrevis, Herr.-Sch., a Palsearctic species. 



Distribution. Nearctic, Palaearctie and Oriental Regions ; pro- 

 bably more widely distributed. 



" Body short, robust, compressed, broad ; vertex three or four 

 times as broad as in middle long, the border broadly rounded off to 

 the front ; ocelli on the passage from vertex to front on inner side 

 of frontal suture ; face as long as above broad, or about twice as 

 broad as at clypeus, with punctate spots on the transverse stripes; 

 clypeus i-ectaugular, at base somewhat narrowed, " ziigel " broad, 

 semicircular, cheeks broad, forming an obtuse angle on the outer 

 side ; pronotum nearly three times as long as vertex, strongly 

 obliquely striped and wrinkled, on front border smooth ; tegmina 

 broad, covering tip of abdomen, with strong veins, tjie simple 



