MVLLOCEUUS. 317 



about as long as broad (J) or slightly shorter ( $ ), evidently 

 nax'rowed from the base to beyond the middle, the gense sti'oiiglv 

 dilated, the apical emarginatioii moderately deep and forminn- a 

 sharp right angle ; the npper surface with shallow confluent 

 punctation, broadly and deeply impressed in the middle (especially 

 in d ), so that the edges of the dorsal area are costate in front, the 

 central carina narrow and depressed. Auteunce testaceous brown, 

 the scape with sparse minute pale scales and curved black setae ; 

 the funicle with the two basal joints equal and 3 longer than 4, 

 the terminal joints a little longer than broad. Prothorax trans- 

 verse, the sides rounded, broadest at the middle, shallowly con- 

 stricted and transversely impi-essed behind the apex and near the 

 base, the latter truncate and not broader than the apex, which is 

 rounded dorsally ; the upper surface with coarse punctures, which 

 are partly hidden by the scaling, and sometimes with a faint trace 

 of a central costa. Elytru subtruncate at the base, parallel-sided 

 ( d ) or slightly dilated behind ( $ ), the dorsal outline almost flat ; 

 the upper surface with a small, transverse, flattened area just 

 behind the scutellum, and behind this a very shallow, broad, 

 oblique impression from the shoulder to the suture ; the striae with 

 shallow punctures, the intervals slightly convex, the scaling not so 

 dense as to hide the integument ; the setae short, black, scale-like 

 and recumbent. Legs testaceous, with variegated scaling, the setaj 

 dark on the outer faces only ; the femora with a single sharp 

 tooth, the anterior pairs of tibiae with a prominent angulation 

 on the inner edge above the middle, much less marked on the 

 hind ])air. 



Lenqth, 4-5 mm, ; breadth, 1^-2 mm. 



Ceylon : Dikoya, 3S00-4200 ft. {G. Lewis). 



Types (5 2 in the British Museum. 



287. Myllocerus lineatocollis, Boh. 



Pltyllobiiis lineatocollis, Boheman,* Schcinh. Gen. Cure, vii pt 1 



i843, p. 23. 

 Myllocerus frontal i>!. Faust,* Dent. Eat. Zeit. 1897, p. 363. 

 Myllocerus lineatocollis, Stebbing, Indian Forest Insects, 1914. 



p. 400, ay. 270. 



Colour black or piceous, with metallic green scaling, the head 

 with a variable central dark patch, the prothorax with a broad 

 cejitral dark stripe, the elytra uniform green (typical form) ; or 

 the elytra with the suture black, the intervals 1 to 4 more or less 

 variegated with black spots, and the remaining intervals uniformlv 

 green (var. frontalis). 



Ilecid witii the eyes lateral and prominent, the forehead much 

 broader than the space between the scrobes. Rostrum about as 

 long as the head, broader than long, narrowing from the base to 

 the middle and slightly dilated at the apex, the apical emargination 

 shallow and rounded ; the upper surface scarcely impressed and 

 with only a short faint central stria. Antennce reddish brown. 



