164 cueculionidte, 



is not higher than the second on the declivity, as it is in >S'. p>-a- 

 sinus. The differences in the male organ are slight, but constant; 

 in lyrasinus it is deeper to\Aards the apex than in the middle, 

 whereas it is o£ even depth in _2>rf<f^«riiws, in which also the pro- 

 jecting spatula is a little longer and broader and more curved up 

 at the tip. 



Lenqth, 5i-8i mm. ; breadth, 21-3-3- mm, 



Ma'dkas:' Naduvatam, 6000-6500 ft., Nilgiri Hills {H. L. 

 Andreives). 



Types J $ in the British Museum, 



122. Sympiezomias frater, sp. nov. 



Colour black, with dense uniform metallic green or bluish 

 scaling, the under surface and the inflexed margins of the pro- 

 thorax and elytra usually with yellow powdering, the elytra liaviug 

 also a similar elongate yellow patch at the base of the intervals 

 4 and 5, and another smaller one at the apex of the same 

 intervals. 



Head with fine scattered punctation and without a central stria. 

 Rostrum plane dorsally, the furrow very short and broad. Pro- 

 thorax as in S. prasinus. Boh., but without any central stria. 

 Elytra with the basal margin distinctly elevated, the humeral fold 

 present but not very prominent, the apices almost rounded i)i the 

 S , only shghtly mucronate in the 5 , finely puuctato-striate, the 

 intervals even and almost plane, interval 3 not higher than 2 on 

 the declivity, which bears no impression ; the setse small, but 

 distinct. 



Length, 5|— 6-| mm. ; breadth 2:^-3 mm. 



Madras : "Nilgiri Hills (Sir G. Hamj^son— types, H. L. Andreives); 

 Coorg; Palur (G. Lund); Tercaud, Shevaroy Hills, 4500 ft. 

 (T. B. Fletcher— Vusa Coll.). 



Typ>es d 2 in the British Museum. 



Verv closely allied to S. jjrasinus, Boh., and S. prceteritus, sp. n., 

 but distinguished by the obtuse apices of the elytra, the even 

 surface of the declivity, and the ifjore conspicuous setse on it ; the 

 last ventral segment of the $ also has no central elevation ; 

 the male organ differs in having the spatula shorter and quite 

 straight, without any upward curve. 



123. Sympiezomias perroteti, Boh. 



Brachya&pistes ^^eroteti, Boheman,* Schonh. Gen. Cure, viii, pt. 2, 

 1845, p. 416. 



Colour black, with blackish scaling and yellow and white stripes ; 

 the prothorax black on the disk, sulphur-yellow below, with a 

 broad yellow band ascending the apical and basal margins as far 

 as the edge of the disk, the median lateral area with sparse grey 

 scaling; elytra with a broad yellow stripe along the extreme 



