ASTTCUS. 147 



Ceylon: Boga\vantala\va, 5UU0 ft. {E. E. Green, G. Lewis); 

 Dikova, 3800-4200 ft. (G. Lewis); Maskeliya {E. E. Green); 

 Triiicomali (C. F. S. Baler). 



Types c? $ iu the British Museum. 



]\lr. Green notes that this species does serious damage to the 

 leaves of young tea plauts. 



108. Astycus cinereus, sp. nov. 



Very closely allied to ^4. apicatus, but rather larger and dis- 

 tinguished as follows : — Rostrum less deeply impressed on the 

 disk. Elytra proportionately broader, slightly dilated behind 

 middle ( $ ), the apices without any projection, interval 3 broader 

 than 4, the shoulders a little less prominent, and no patch of 

 pale overlapping scales behind the scutellum. 



Lemjth, cS S-8|, $ 9-10 mm.; breadth, J 4, $ 4^-4| mm. 



Ceylok. 



Types S 2 in the Bi'itish Museum. 



109. Astycus aequalis, Wlk. 



Piazomias rt'/y?<«/2S, Walker,* Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) iii, 1859, p. 263. 

 Astycus ebeninus, Walker,* 1. c. 



Colour black, with dense dull green scaling, often with vellow 

 powdering laterally ; the elytra sometimes finely variegated with 

 blackish scales ; the prothorax paler laterally and with a coppery 

 central line ; the head and underparts sandy with a coppery 

 reflexion, the centre of the body being green. 



Head almost impiuictate, the forehead plane, with a narrow 

 central furrow ascending the vertex and on each side of it a short 

 narrow stria ; eyes oval, rather prominent. Rostrum scarcely as 

 long as its Avidth at the base, slightly narrowed in front, shallowly 

 impressed above, with a narrow central furrow and on each side 

 a juxta-marginal carina followed by a longitudinal impression. 

 Antenna' red-brown, the funicle with joints 1 and 2 equal, 3 and 4 

 equal, 7 as long as broad. ProtJiorax as broad as long or some- 

 what transverse, the sides slightly rounded, the base evidently 

 bisinuate, the apes a good deal narrower, the upper surface with 

 large deep and close punctures and vvith a fine central furrow, 

 abbreviated in front. Scutellum transverse. Elytra very shallowly 

 sinuate at the base, parallel-sided from the shoulders to beyond 

 the middle, the apices divergently pointed, punctato-striate, the 

 punctures smaller but distinct behind, the intervals broad, smooth 

 and slightly convex, the setae short and subdepressed. Leys dark 

 red-brown, with grey scaling ; the tibia; not sulcate, the posterior 

 pair not produced internally at the apex and with the corbels 

 slightly ascending : the anterior coxae widely separated. 



Anal segment of the $ simple. 



Length, 6-77 mm. ; breadth, 2:^-3^ mm. 



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