322 cuiicuLioNiD.5;. 



293. Myllocerus crinitus, sp. nov. 



Colour black, with pale metallic green scaling ; the prothorax 

 with two ill-defined darker stripes ; the elytra variegated on the 

 disk with irregular and variable small brown markings. 



Head with the eyes lateral and prominent, the forehead finely 

 striolate beneath the scaling and broader than the space between 

 the scrobes. Rostrum about as long as broad, longer than the 

 head, the sides very slightly narrowed from the base to the 

 middle and slightly dilated again at the apex, the apical emargi- 

 nation moderately deep and acute ; the upper surface impressed 

 and indistinctly tricarinate. Antennce piceous, slender, the scape 

 witli depressed setae, the funicle with joint 2 longer than 1, 3 and 

 4 subequal. Proiliorax about as long as broad, the sides slightly 

 rounded, broadest at the middle, shallowly constricted before and 

 behind, the apical margin oblique laterally, the base of equal 

 width and truncate, the upper surface coarsely punctate. Elytra 

 subtruncate at the base, the shoulders rectangular, the sides 

 parallel to beyond the middle in the 6 , slightly dilated behind in 

 the 2 ' finely punctato-striate and with very long fiiie erect setae. 

 Ler/s black, with some green scaling, the femora with a single 

 sharp tooth. 



Length, 3|-44 lam. ; breadth 1^-2 mm. 



Madras :' Kallar, 1000 ft., Nilgiri Hills (E. L. Andreives). 



Tyj)e in the British Museum. 



294. Myllocerus pauper, Fst. 



Mi/llocenis 2}("iper, Faust,* Deut. Ent. Zeit. 1897, p. 365. 



Colour piceous black, with grey scaling and indistinct brownish 

 markings ; the under-parts whitish. 



Head finely striolate, the eyes latei-al and prominent, the fore- 

 head broader than the space between the scrobes. Rostrum about 

 as long as the head, shorter than its basal width, its sides narrowed 

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

 apical emargination moderate and forming an obtuse angle ; the 

 upper surface rather deeply impressed and with a fine central 

 carina, the lateral carinas not evident. Antennce. ferruginous, the 

 funicle with joint 2 evidently longer than 1, and 3 slightly longer 

 than 4, Proiliorax a little broader than long, the sides very 

 slightly rounded, broadest rather before the middle, the base 

 truncate, the apical margin scarcely narrower and oblique at the 

 sides, the punctation rugose and confluent. Elytra subtruncate 

 at the base, parallel-sided in the J, slightly AA'idened behind in 

 the 2 , the shoulders roundly rectangular, the striae rather deep 

 and strongly punctate, the setae moderately long and erect. Legs 

 ferruginous, the femora with a small sharp tooth. 



Length, 3^-3| mm. ; breadth, l§-lf mm. 



Bombay : Khanapur and Sampgaon, Belgaum (H. E. Andreives). 



Type in the Dresden Museum. 



