142 CUKCULIONID.E. 



the sides subparallel from the shoulders to beyond the middle, 

 scarcely acuminate behind, the apices with a very short divergent 

 macro, with deep striae containing large punctures which vauisii 

 ])osteriorly, the intervals scarcely broader than the stride, convex 

 and rngosel^ granulate ; the setse extremely short and subdepressed. 

 Legs black, the inner edges of the posterior pairs of tllDise, the 

 bases of the anterior femora and the apices of the posterior jiairs 

 with green scaling ; the tibife not sulcate, the apex of the liind 

 pair slightly produced internally, and the corbels not ascending 

 the dorsal edge ; tlie front tibiae with two large apical hooks and 

 two rows of denticles along the inner edge ; the anterior coxae 

 contiguous. 



5 unknown. 



Lenc/th, 9^ mm.; breadth, 34 mm. 



Ceylox (Thwaites). 



Type S in the British Museum. 



102. Astycus aurovittatiis, Helhr. 

 Astycophobusaurovittatus,lle\\ev* Stett. Eut. Zeit. 1908, p. 125. 



Colour black, with blackish scaling and with the following green 

 or colden-green markings : a broad lateral stripe on the head and 

 prothorax, a narrow central line on the latter, which continues 

 right along the suture of the elytra to its apex, on each elytron a 

 broad stripe running from the base of intervals 3-5 (or only 4 

 and 5) to the apex of 2-4 and uniting at base and apex with an 

 equally broad lateral stripe, which, however, does not reach the 

 extrenie margin ; these two stripes enclose a narrow strip of the 

 black ground colour of varying width, and running from the 

 shoulder to the apex of interval 5 (almost obliterated in one 

 example). The structural characters of this insect agree almost 

 entirely with those of the next species, limbafus, Mshl., but the 

 sides of the prothorax are less narrowed behind and therefore 

 less strongly rounded, the apical fringe of the elytra is shorter, 

 and the apex of the 6 organ is of a different shape, being much 

 longer and more tapering. 



Length, 6i-104 mm.; breadth 2^-4| mm. 



Madras : AVynaad {E. T. Athinson) ; Ouchterlony Valley, 

 2500-3500 ft., Nilgiris {H. L. Andrewes) ; South Mysore (//. L. 

 Andreives) • Coorg {L. Newcome). 



Types 6 $ in the Dresden Museum. 



103. Astycus limbatus, sp. nov. 



Colour black, with black (or nearly dull grey) scaling and with 

 the following green or golden green markings: along the whole 

 lateral area of the prothorax (often more or less denuded) ; and a 

 broad stripe on the elytra between striae 4-7, which is continued 



