MTLLOCERUS. 323 



295. Myllocerus gracilis, sp. nov. 



Colour black, with metallic green scaliug, the elytra usually 

 witli some small scattered denuded black spots. 



Head finely wrinkled, with the eyes lateral and prominent, the 

 forehead only slightly broader than the space between the scrobes. 

 nostrum broader than long, as long as the head, slightly narrowed 

 from the base to the middle and a little dilated at the apex, the 

 apical emargiiiation deep and forming an acute angle ; the upper 

 surface shallowly impressed and with onl}' a faint central carina. 

 Aiitennce black, slender, the funicle with joint 2 much longer than 

 1, 3 and 4 equal. Prothorax almost as long as broad, nearly 

 cylindrical, the base subtruncate, the apical margin oblique 

 laterally ; the upper surface with coarse punctatiou visible through 

 the scahng. Eli/tra subtruncate at the base, the shoulders rect- 

 angular, the sides parallel in the c? , evidently dilated behind in 

 the 5 > finely punctato-striate, with very short suberect setfe. 

 Legs piceous, or ferruginous with the thickened part of the femora 

 darker, the latter with a single sharp tooth. 



Length, 3-4 mm. ; breadth, 1^-1 f mm. 



Madras : jVilgiri Hills (B. L. Andrewes). 



Type in the British Museum. 



296. Myllocerus smaragdinus, sp. nov. 



Colour black, M'ith uniform bright metallic green scaling, Avhich 

 is not very dense. 



Head with the eyes lateral and only slightly convex, the fore- 

 head finely striolate and much broader than the space between 

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

 sides subparallel in the basal half, dilated at the apex, the apical 

 emargination moderately deep and forming an acute angle, the 

 upper surface impressed and finely tricariuate. Antemue rufes- 

 cent and with stiff' projecting setae, the scape rather scabi'ous ; the 

 funicle with joint 2 longer than 1, 3 and 4 equal. Protliorax 

 about as long as broad, the sides rounded, broadest at the middle, 

 shallowly constricted before and behind, the base subtruncate, not 

 broader than the apical margin, whicli is slightly oblique laterally ; 

 the upper surface coarsely punctate. Elytra as in M. lineatocollis 

 (the scutellum bare in both), but with very dense short erect setae. 

 Legs dark ferruginous, the thickened part of the femora darker, 

 with green scaling and with a single sharp tooth. 



Length, 3^-4 mm.; breadth, lj-l| nun. 



SiKKiM : Darjiling (Hannand, Fruhstorfer) ; Jalapahar {E. T. 

 Atkinson — type). 



Tyj^e in the British Museum. 



297. Myllocerus procerus. Est. 



Myllocerus procerus, Faust,* Deut. Eut. Zeit. 1897, p. 368. 



Colour piceous, with brownish-grey scaling, the prothorax with 



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