BLOSYRUS. 



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granulate. Elytra \\itli()ut any humeral promineuce, the striie 

 much narrower and comparatively finely punctate, the intervals 

 much broader than the strite, all evenly raised and entirely devoid 

 of granules or tubercles, with the exception of a conical setigerous 

 tubercle at the top of the declivity on interval 3 and a similar 

 much smaller one on interval 5. 



Length, 3|-4| mm. ; breadth, 24-3 mm. 



W. Bengal: Barwa, Chota Nagpur {Cardon). 



Type in the British Museuiii. 



(). Blosyrus ornatus, Fst. 



BlosyvHs ornatus, Faust,* Deut. Ent. Zeit. 1897, p. 338. 



Colour black, with brownisli-grey scaling and dark brown 

 markings, viz. : a quadrate scutellar patch, an irregular subbasal 

 patch between strife 3 and 5, a broad transverse dentate band 

 behind the middle between strife 2 and G, and an ill-defined patch 

 on the declivity. 



Head with tlu'ee narrow furrows, the intervals slightly convex 

 and with a few scattered granides. llostrum separated from the 



Fig. 12. — Bloi^yrus ornatus, Fst. 



head by a deep trisinuate furrow, its sides gradually narro-wed 

 to the apex, with a deep central impression containing a bare 

 carina and a narro\^er lateral furrow on each side. Antennce 

 rather slender, the two basal joints of the funicle subequal. 

 Proiliorax more than twice as broad as long, the sides slightly 

 rounded, broadest about the middle, closely set with small conical 

 granules and with a shallow transverse impression before the 

 middle. Elytra globose, broadly sinuate at the base, with no 

 humeral tubercle, broadest at the middle, deeply puuctato-striate, 

 the intervals rather narro\\', all evenly raised and entirely devoid 

 of granules or tubercles, the sette short, stout and erect. 



Length^ 5 mm. ; breadth, 4 mm. 



Burma : Tharrawaddy {G. Q. Corhett). 



Type in the Dresden Museum. 



