ASTYCUS. 



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A. oculatus var. levicollis, nov. 



This local form differs from the type in the structure of the 

 protliorax. In the J this segment entirely lacks the dorsal 

 granules, being smooth and shiny, with scattered sliallow punctures. 

 This character is not so well marked in the two $ specimens, as 

 the granules are present in the middle of the basal half, but tlie 

 anterior and lateral areas are as smooth as in the i^ . The d 

 genitah'a quite resemble those of the typical form. 



JNIadbas : Pirmaad, Travancore (Mrs. E. S. Imray). 



Types c? 2 in the British Museum. 



101. Astycus armatipes, sp. nov. 



Colour black, bare, variegated with green scaling as follows : a 

 few scales at the apex of the rostrum and round the eyes ; the 

 prothorax with sparse scaling on the disk becoming denser laterally ; 

 the elytra with a large humeral patch at the base of intervals 

 3-6, and a smaller one behind middle on 4 and 5, a few small 

 spots on the declivity and some more or less coutlueut green 

 patches along the sides. 



Head almost plane, plicate and with a fine central farrow as- 

 cending to the vertex ; eyes broadly oval, very prominent. Rostrum 

 longer than broad, its sides slightly sinuate in the middle, the 



Fig. 4(>. — Astycus armatipes, Mshl. 



apex shallowly emarginate, the upper surface broadly impressed,, 

 with a deep central furrow, a sharp sublateral carina and finer 

 one below it running obliquely from the antenna to the eve. 

 Antennoi black, the funicle with joint 2 very slightly longer thanl, 

 3 and 4 subequal, and 7 as long as broad. Prothorax as long as 

 broad, the sides rather strongly rounded, broadest a little behind 

 middle, the basal margin scarcely bisinuate and much broader 

 than the apex, the upper surface closely granulate throughout 

 and with a very fine central furrow extending from the base to' 

 near the apex. ScutelliDu small, almost circular. Elytra with. 



