148 CUECULIONID-l. 



Ceylon: Dikoya, 3S0U-4200 ft., and Kitulgalla, 1700 £t. 

 {G. Lewis). 



T)/pe 5 in the British Museum ; also the type of eheninns. 



A. eheninus, Walk., was founded on an entirely abraded 

 specimen. 



110. Astycus cinnamomeus, sp. nov. 



Black, the head aud prothorax with not very dense, greyish 

 brown scales, between many of \\hich the tegument is visible ; 

 elytra with small, nearly always contiguous, opaque, cinnamon 

 brown scales, which are of varying shapes, being ovate, triangular 

 or irregularly quadrilateral ; lower surface with fairly dense whitish 

 scaling. 



Head scarcely punctate, with a deep central furrow ascending 

 to the vertex aud on each side two longiiudinal impressions near 

 the eyes, which are oval and prominent. Rostrum about as long 

 as broad, broadest at the base and slightly narrowed in front ; 

 the posterior two-thirds scarcely punctate, broadly but shallowly 

 impressed, and with a deep central furrow, the scales similar to 

 those on the head ; the apical area with much smaller, more- 

 widely separate and shiny scales, the apex shallowly emarginate ; 

 the lateral costte only slightly curved inwards in front and sub- 

 parallel behind, the longitudinal impression below them very 

 shallow and indistinct, the upper edge of the scrobe passing close 

 below the eye. Antenna' piceous, the funicle with the two basal 

 joints equal, 3 slightly longer than 4, 7 as broad as long. Pro- 

 thorax broader than long, the sides moderately rounded, broadest 

 about the middle, the base gently rounded, distinctly broader than 

 the apex, which is roundly produced in the middle ; the upper 

 surface uniformly rugose, slightly more convex longitudinally in 

 the S , with a central stria extending from the base almost to the 

 apex. Scutelhnn small, transverse, covered with dense overlapping 

 whitish scales. Elytra broadly ovate, broader aud more convex 

 longitudinally in the $ , the shoulders broadly rounded and 

 moderately prominent, the sides subparallel thence to beyond the 

 middle, tlie base shallowly sinuate at the scutellum, the apices 

 separately pointed, but scarcely mucronate ; the upper surface w-ith 

 shallow strise containing punctures which are partly hidden by 

 the scaling and are smaller behind, the intervals broad and finely 

 coriaceous beneath the scaling, the scales very small and closely 

 set, the setiB short' curved and flattened, being as large as or 

 larger than most of the scales. Legs piceous, with brown and 

 whitish scaling ; the posterior pairs of femora externally bro\^n at 

 the base, the apical half or third whitish ; the tibia? brown ex- 

 ternally and whitish internally, the front pan' not very strongly 

 curved, the external angles of the posterior corbels broadly rounded; 

 front coxse broadly separated. 



Length, 6g-8 mm.; breadth, ^o"^^ ^^"^- 



