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83. Dereodus pollinosus, lUdt. 



Hypomeces poUiiwsus, liedteiibacher,* Iliig-el's Kaschin. iv, pt. 2, 



1848, p. o45. 

 Dereodus hinuilai/ti/ius, Faust,* Stettin. Ent. Zeit. 1891, p. 262. 

 Dereodus {Gn/piius) hciu/alensis, Desbrochers,* Le Frelon, i, 1891, 



p. 50. 



Colour black, with dense grey scaling (sometimes with a pinkish 

 or yellowish reflexion) beneath and more sparse above ; the head 

 and prothorax with a denser lateral stripe of scaling, the latter 

 also with a narrower central line ; the elytra often mottled with 

 darker patches. 



Head, rostrum and anteance as in D.denticoUis, Boh., except that 

 the eyes are smaller and more prominent, and the head is much 

 more finely punctate. Prothorax as long as broad, its sides parallel 

 from the base to beyond the middle, then shghtly narrowed to the 

 apex, the basal margin strongly bisinuate ; the upper surface with 

 scattered coarse punctation, a shallow central furrow, two foveae 

 close on each side of it about the middle and a curved transverse 

 impression behind the middle. EJijtra parallel-sided from the 

 shoulders to beyond the middle, almost rounded behind, the apices 

 with very short contiguous mucros, the striae distinctly punctate, 

 the punctures rather smaller towards the apex, the intervals not 

 broader than the stria? and slightly convex, the posterior callus 

 feeble : the setse very short, tine and subdepressed. 



Length, S|-ll| mm.; breadth, 35-4| ram. 



UxiTED Provinces : Mussooi-ie {H. M. Lefroy) ; Almoi-a and 

 Dalmoti, Kumaon ; Thano, bjabhawala and Thadiar, 7000 ft., Dehra 

 Dun. Nepal : Dharampur, 5000 ft. (Ind. Mus.). Punjab : 

 Simla (Lad;/ Prain, N. Annandale) ; on apple, Kalu, Kangra dist.; 

 on oak, Amritsar ; Piuntra, Jabbal {E. P. Stehbimj). Kashviik 

 {yon Hiujel — type). Baluchistan : Suleiman Mts. 



Type in the Viemia Museum ; of himalayanus in the Dresden 

 Museum; of bemjolensis in Coll. Desbrochers des Loges. 



Mr. Stebbing records that this species feeds on the leaves of 

 Zizyphtis jajuba, sometimes defoliating the trees. 



84. Dereodus sparsus, JJoJi. 



Hypomeces sparstts, Bohemau,* Scbunh. Gen. Cure, vi, pt. 1, 1840, 



p. 208. 

 Dereodus (Grypnus) indicus, Desbrochers,* Le Frelou, i, p. 49 (1891 ). 

 Dereodus sparsus var. prasinus, Heller,* Deut. Ent. Zeit. 1901, 



p. 340. 



Colour black, with rather thin grey scaling, which is usually 

 broken up into small irregular spots on the elytra; the prothorax 

 usually with a narrow lateral pale line. 



Very closely allied to D. pollinosus, Eedt., which it replaces in 

 Central and Southern India, and diflfering from it as follows: — 



