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105. Astycus glabrifrons, sp. nov. 



Colour black, with dark greyish scaling, the elytra with a 

 lateral stripe of pale greeu or greenish-white scales covering the 

 base of intervals 9 and 10, the whole of 8 except the basal one- 

 fourth, and the apex of 7 ; there are also a tew green scales 

 scattered on the disk. 



Very closely allied structurally to A. griseus, Desbr., but 

 differing as follows : the anterior part of the forehead and the 

 base of the rostrum are more convex, much more shiny, and more 

 finely punctate ; the bead has no central furrow, but there is 

 usually a shallow fovea on the vertex and another on the antei'ior 

 part of the forehead, which is sometimes continued just on to the 

 base of the rostrum ; the rostrutn itself lacks the sharply defined 

 central furrow of A. griseus, there being merely a shallo\^" im- 

 pression about the middle. Pi'othorax with the setas on the disk 

 short and fine, tbose at the sides mucli longer ; whereas in A. 

 griseus all the setas are broadly spatulate, the lateral ones not 

 being appreciably longer. Scutellum shorter and more transverse, 

 the sides more deeply sinuate. Elytra with the setiB on the disk 

 short, fine and inconspicuous, those in the pale lateral stripe 

 longer, more raised, more numerous, and lying transversely with 

 their apices inwards. 



Length, Qh-lh mm. ; breadth, 2-2-j- mm. 



Mabbas : Nilgiri Hills {Sir G. F. Hamjison — type) ; Malabar. 

 Bombay: Dharwar. 



Type 6 in the British Museum. 



In two of the Dharwar specimens the second joint of the 

 funicle is very short, being not or only slightly longer than the 

 third ; but no other differences are apparent. 



106. Astycus femoralis, Fhs. 



Bradn/aspistes femoralis, FSbraeus,* Schonh. Gen. Cure, vi, pt, 1, 

 1840, p. 251. 



Colour black, with dense pale greeu scaling, more or less suft'used 

 with orange at the base, sides and apex of the elytra, and also at 

 the posterior angles and along the sides of the apical margin of 

 the prothorax. 



Head shiny and almost impuuctate beneath the scaling, with 

 a fine central furrow extending to the vertex ; eyes very broadly 

 oval, moderately prominent. Rostrum about as long as broad, 

 parallel-sided, with a small angular emargination at apex, the 

 upper surface shallowly impressed in the basal half, with a fine 

 central furrow and the margins carinate, the ante-ocular impres- 

 sion indistinct. Antennce black, the two basal joints of the funicle 

 subequal, 3 longer than 4, 7 subconical and longer than broad. 

 Prothorax as long as broad, its sides parallel from the base to the 

 middle, then narrowing in a curve to the apex, the basal margin 

 truncate or very shallowly bisiuuate, the upper surface with large 



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