152 CUBCULIOXID^, 



with a fine central stria ceasing at a little distance from the apex. 

 tScutdlum transverse. Elytra broadly ovate, the shoulders sloping, 

 the sides gently rounded, broadest about the middle, the base 

 slightly sinuate^ the apices very shortly niucronate ; the dorsal 

 outline rather flat and continuous with that of the prothorax ; 

 the strife shallow and the punctures indistinct, the intervals broad 

 and flat, interval 3 distinctly broader than 2 or 4, the posterior 

 callus obsolete ; the scales of irregular shape, the set® minute, 

 recumbent and very inconspicuous. Lerjs piceous, with fairly 

 close whitish scaling ; the corbels of the hind tibia) flat, their 

 dorsal edge continuous with that of the tibia, the posterior angle 

 rounded ; the front coxae distinctly separated. 



Length, 8| mm. ; breadth, 3^ mm. 



Ceylon {Dr. Tlnvaites). 



Type 5 in the British Museum. 



114. Astycus horni, sp. nov. 



Colour black, with dense dark grey scaling, the prothorax with 

 three very indistinct dark brown stripes, the elytra closely mottled 

 with ill-defined dark brown patches. 



Head with longitudinal wrinkles (hidden by the scaling) and a 

 deep central furrow ; eyes short, oval and moderately prominent. 

 Rostrum as long as broad, parallel-sided, shallowly sinuate at the 

 apex, plane above, with a narrow central furrow and a single 

 lateral carina, without any lateral furrow in front of the eye. 

 Antennce piceous, the funicle with joint 1 much longer than 2, 

 7 distinctly transverse. Protliorax as long as broad, its sides 

 rounded, broadest at middle, the apex much narrower than the 

 base, which is subtruncate, rugosely and confiuently punctate 

 above and with a deep narrow central furrow from base to apex; 

 the scales as large as those on the elytra, but not quite so dense. 

 Scutellum transverse. Elytra with the sides parallel to the middle, 

 the apex not emarginate and without any fringe of hairs, the 

 punctures in the strife diminishing behind, the intervals almost 

 plane and much broader than the strife, interval 3 not broader 

 than 4, the setae extremely short and depressed, not easily dis- 

 cernible. Legs piceous, with grey scaling; the tibia? not furrowed, 

 the hind pair not produced internally at the apex, the front pair 

 with a few fine hairs internally in the S , the hind corbels flat, 

 the dorsal edge on the same plane as that of the tibia and ter- 

 minating in a sharp obtuse angle ; the anterior coxae contiguous. 

 Length, 5|-5| mm. ; breadth, 2-^ mm. 

 Cetlo>' : ZSalanda {Dr. Walther Horn). 

 Types (S $ in the British Museum. 



