ASXYCUS. 149 



Ceylox : Colombo (G. Lewis). 



All the scales on the sternum and venter are fringed with 

 >miuute hairs. 



111. Astycus lewisi, sp. nov. 



Colour black, the head and prothorax with separated small 

 shiny whitish scales, the elytra with larger and more closely set, 

 butt' or greyish-buff scales. 



Head shiny and sparsely punctate, with a narrow central furrow 

 ascending to the vertex, and without lateral impressions ; eyes 

 ■oval and prominent. Rostrum longer than broad, the sides 

 parallel from the base to beyond the middle, then slightly dilated ; 

 the basal two-thirds more or less shallowly impressed and with a 

 deep central furrow, the lateral costa; obtuse and parallel, followed 

 by a longitudinal furrow, but without any outer costa or ante- 

 ocular impression, the upper edge of the scrobe passing quite 

 close to the eye ; apical area with smaller scales, the apex shallowly 

 emarginate in the middle. Antennce piceous brown, the funicle 

 with joints 1 and 2 equal, 3 longer than 4, and 7 as long as 

 broad ( J ) or longer ( 5 ). Prothorax as long as broad, the sides 

 strongly rounded iu 6 , less so in $ , broadest at the middle, the 

 base gently rounded and broader than the truncate apex ; the 

 upper surface more convex longitudinally in 6 , coarsely rugose, 

 with a narrow and sometimes indistinct central stria which does 

 not traverse the smoother apical area. Scutellnm longer than 

 broad, clothed with dense whitish scaling. Elytra broadly ovate 

 and parallel-sided to beyond the middle ( $ ), or more elongate 

 and narrowing more gradually from near the base ( c5" ), the base 

 jointly sinuate, the margin less raised than usual, the apices each 

 produced into a fairly long sharp mucro, the shoulders promiuent ; 

 the upper surface (when the scaling is intact) with the striae 

 very shallow and the punctures large iu the basal half, the striae 

 becomiug deeper aud the punctures smaller behind, the intervals 

 broad and Hat, the 3rd uot broader than the 4th, the posterior 

 ■callus promiuent ; the scales larger than in allied species, of 

 irregular shapes and closely set like a mosaic, forming irregular 

 rosettes round the punctures, the setae recumbent, minute and 

 ■inconspicuous. Legs black, with greyish white scaling and a 

 dense paler patch uear the apex of the hind femora ; the front 

 tibice strongly incurved at the apex aud with an unusually long 

 internal apical mucro ; the corbels of the hind tibise broad and 

 quite flat, the upper margin rising above the dorsal plane of the 

 tibia) and forming a sharp right angle ; front coxae narrowly 

 separated. 



Length, 7-9 mm. ; breadth, 2|-3| mm. 



Ceylon : Dikoya, 3^00-4200 ft. (&. Lewis). 



Types d $ in the British Museum. 



None of the scales on the metasternum and venter are fringed. 



