136 



CUBCULIONID^. 



the apex, in the $ the sides are subparallel from the base to the 

 middle, then narrowed in a curve to the apex ; the basal margin 

 truncate, the upper surface closely covered with small distinct 

 granules, without any central furrow, but with a shallow rounded 

 impression on each side about the iniddle. Scutellum triangular. 

 Elytra parallel-sided from the shoulders to about the middle and 

 subacuminate behind, the apices not mucronate nor divergent, with 

 deep strice containing rows of small granules, the intervals much 

 broader than the striae, convex and covered with numerous irre- 

 gular small black granules, stria 9 with a rounded impi'ession on a 

 level with the posterior coxae, interval 5 usually abraded in the 

 basal half and with a row of irregular shallow impressions; the 

 setae very short and depressed. I^^gs black, with pale seta?, the 

 tibiae with a deep dorsal furrow, the posterior pair slightly pro- 

 duced internally at the apex and with the corbels not ascending 

 the dorsal edge. 



Anal segment of the 2 almost plane and simply rounded at the 

 apex; the anterior coxae contiguous. 



Lewjili, S 12-15, $ 14|-19i mm.; breadth, d 4^-6, $ o|-8i 

 mm. 



Bexgal: Dacca; Kaliganj {AtJcinson — Ind. Mus.). Malay 

 States: Penang. 



Ti/iHS c? 2 ill the British Museum. 



95. Astycus doriae, Fsi. 



Lepidastycus dorio', Faust,* 'Ann. Mus. Civ. Geneva, xxxiv, 1894, 



p. 175 (1895). 

 L. donee var. cuprescens, Faust,* 1. c. 



Colour black, with uniform metallic blue-green scaling ; or with 

 yellowish-grey scaling with a coppery reflexion, leaving a broad 

 denuded median stripe on the ])rothorax (var. cuprescens) ; the 

 granules ah\ays bare. 



Head with fine shallow punctation, the forehead plane, striolate 

 and v\nth a deep central furrow ascending to the vertex ; eyes 

 broadly ovate and moderately prominent. Rostrum slightly longer 

 than broad, somewhat dilated at the apex, the apical border shal- 

 lowly emarginate, the upper surface plane and striolate, \Aith a 

 broad deep central furroAv and a submarginal carina, the ante- 

 ocular impression shallow and plicate. Antenna; black, the funicle 

 with the two basal joints equal, 8 scarcely longer than 4. 7 about 

 as long as broad, the club narrowly elongate. Prothorax 2i\)0\xt as 

 long as broad, its sides rounded, broadest behind middle, the apex 

 narrower than the base, the basal margin subtruncate, tlie ^^pper 

 surface closely covered with small bare granules and with a faint 

 central furro\\- which is more distinct at the base. Scxitdlum 

 longer than broad. Elytra parallel-sided in the basal half, but 

 slightly broader behind the middle than at the shoulders, broadly 

 rounded posteriorly, with shallow striae containing rows of smnll 

 granules, the intervals broad, rather convex and closely covered 



