MTLLOCERUS. 



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ajicl dilated at the apex, the apical emargination comparatively 

 sliallow and forming a riglit angle, sliallowly impressed above and 

 with a line central stria wliich ascends the forehead, the lateral 

 carina) obsolete. Antennce ferruginous, the funicle witii joint 1 

 evidently longer and thicker than 2, the remaining joints subequal. 

 Protliorax about as broad as long, the sides slightly rounded, 

 broadest at the middle, very shallowly constricted and transversely 

 impressed near the apex, the basal margin subtruncate and not 

 broader than the apex, the sculpturing entirely concealed by the 

 scaling. Elytra shallowly emarginate at the base, about twice 

 as broad as the prothorax at the shoulders, the sides parallel, 

 distinctly punctato-sti-iate, the intervals slightly convex, the setae 

 very minute and depressed, only visible under a high magnification. 

 Legs tlavescent, the femora with gi'een scaling and each with a 

 minute tooth. 



Length, 2g-2| mm.; breadth, g-1 mm. 



Bombay : Poena. 



Ttjj^e in the British Museum. 



Eecorded by Mr. E. P. 8tebbing as feeding upon the leaves of 

 Acacia catechu. 



276. Myllocerus pumilus, sp. nov. 



Colour black, Mith brown scaling and green markings : the head 

 green, the prothorax with a broad greeu lateral stripe, the elytra 

 with four transverse green bands extending from stria 1 to the 

 margin and dilated externally so as almost to touch one another, 

 these bands sometimes very much reduced. 



Fig. 96. — Myllocerti!' ■puuiilus, Afshl. 



Head with the eyes lateral and rather prominent, the forehead 

 broader than tlie space between the scrobes. Rostrum about as 

 long as the head, somewhat dilated towards the apex, the apical 

 emargination ratlier shallow and rounded; the upper surface 

 scarcely impi-essed and with a faint central carina, the lateral 



