146 CUECULIOIv-ID.i:, 



deep lovece (more or less perceptible through the scaling) and with 

 a fine central furrow extending from the base for four-fifths of 

 the length. Scutellum transverse. Elytra rather short and broad, 

 with the siioulders roundly subrectangular, broadest behind middle, 

 not acuminate behind, tlie apices with a very small inconspicuous 

 mucro (best seen from below), evidently punctato-striate, the 

 punctures indistinct towards the apex, the intervals smooth, much 

 broader than the stria3 and almost plane ; the sette extremely 

 short and depressed on the disk, a little longer and suberect on 

 the declivity. Legs reddish brown, w ith the tibiae and the apices 

 of the femora darker; the tibiae not sulcate, the posterior pair not 

 produced internally at the apex and with the corbels ascending 

 the dorsal edge ; the anterior coxae separated by the intercoxal 

 processes. 



Anal segment of the $ strongly transverse and rounded at the 

 apex. 



Lenr/tJi, $ Tj-S? mm. ; breadth 3|-4 mm. 



Madras : Pirmaad, Travancore {G. S. Imray) ; Trivandrum. 



Type 2 ill ^^le Upsaia University Museum (Coll. Thunberg). 



107. Astyciis apicatus, sp. nov. 



Colour black, with grey or light brown scaling, sometimes more 

 or less interspersed with black scales ; just behind the scutellum 

 a small patch of larger and paler overlapping scales. 



Jlead with a deep central furrow ascending the vertex, with 

 large separated punctui-es and much smaller ones scattered in 

 betw'een. Mustnun about as loug as broad, almost parallel-sided 

 in the basal half, the genae slightly dilated ; the disk distinctly 

 punctate, broadly and deeply impressed in the middle, with the 

 usual abbreviated central furrow, on each side a subdorsal and 

 lateral costa enclosing a longitudinal impression, and an ante- 

 ocular impression below them ; the scales not contiguous, the setae 

 spatulate and subrecumbent. Antemue with the two basal joints 

 of the funicle of equal length. Proiliorclx broader than long, tlie 

 sides moderately rounded, broadest at the middle, the base slightly 

 bisinuate ; the upper surface coarsely punctate and wrinkled, 

 the central furrow (sometimes irregular) not nearly reaching the 

 apex, the scales of the same size as those on the elytra. ScufeUum 

 transverse, subtrapezoidal. Elytra with the shoulders prominent, 

 roundly subrectangular, the sides parallel thence to beyond middle, 

 the base jointly bisinuate, the apices each with a short divergent 

 process ; the stride with large separated punctures which almost 

 vanish on the apical third, the intervals slightly convex, 2 not 

 broader than 3, the setae very short and curved, inconspicuous on 

 the disk. Legs piceous, with fairly dense pale scales ; the hind 

 corbels flat, the upper angle a blunt obtuse angle ; the front coxae 

 separated. 



Length, d B^-8, ? 74-11 mm.; breadth, d 2|-3|, $ 31- 

 4 1 mm. 



