PTOCHUS. 



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narrowed from the base to beyond the middle and evidently dilated 

 at the apex, sballowly impressed above and with three narrow 

 cariiaae. ^H^e^mo; ferruginous ; the funicle with joint 1 longer than 

 2, 3 and 4 subequal and longer than the rest, which are a little 

 longer than broad, the club elongate. Prothxyrax about as broad 

 as or slightly broader than long, the sides sliglitly rounded, 

 broadest at the middle, shallowly constricted in front and distinctly 

 narrowed behind, so that the base is slightly narrower than the 

 apex, the upper surface with a shallow transverse impression 

 before and behind the middle, the coarse punctation partly visible 

 through the scaling. Scutellum distinct, clothed with green 

 scaling. Eh/tra narrowly elliptical in c? and considerably wider 

 in 2 5 truncate at the base, broadest at the middle, the lon- 

 gitudinal curvature rather flat, the striae moderately deep and 

 punctate, but appearing very fine where the scaling is intact, the 

 intervals with rather long, scattered, erect seta). 



Length, 3-4:^ mm. ; breadth, 1-lf mm. 



Cexlon : Horton Plains, 6000 ft. (type), Bogawantalawa, 4900- 

 5200 ft., and Nuwara Eliya, 6200-8000 ft. {G. Lewis) ; Pattipola 

 (Ind. Mus.). 



Type 6 in the British Museum. 



In some of the Nuwara Eliya specin)ens the first joint of tlie 

 funicle is scarcely longer than the second, but the distinction is 

 not locally constant, nor does it appear to be correlated with any 

 other differences. 



243. Ptochns noxius, Fst. 



Ptochus noxius, Faust,* Deut. Eiit. Zeit. 1897, p. 353. 



Colour piceous or black, with uniform dark grey scaling. 



Ptochus noxius, Fst. 



Head with fine rugose punctation, the eyes lateral, large, shortly 

 ovate and not very convex. Rostrum about as long as broad, nar- 

 rowed from the base to the middle and dilated at the apex, the 



