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CUECULT0N1D.5:. 



bell-sliaped, as long as broad, the sides rounded in front, sinuate 

 behind the middle, and with the posterior angles acute, the base 

 shallowly bisinuate and broader than the apex. Elytra sub- 

 truncate at the base, the shoulders obliquely subaugulate, the 

 sides somewhat dilated behind the middle, the striae finely 

 punctate, the intervals with a vow of curved scale-like setae. Legs 

 testaceous red, with pale scaling, the femora with a small tooth. 



Length, 2| mm.; breadth, I5 mm. 



Central Photinces : Nagpur {Dr. G. Hauser). 



Type in the Dresden Museum. 



301. Myllocerus luctuosiis, Deslr. 



Myllocerus luctiiosus, Desbrochers des Loges,* C. E. Soc. Eiit. Belg. 

 1891, p. ccclvii. 



Colour black, with blackish scaling and distinct greyish-white 

 markings; the rostrum with greyish scaling; the prothorax with 

 a broad pale lateral stripe and a median oval paler spot near the 

 anterior margin ; the elytra with a narrow basal whitish band 



Fig. 98. — Mylloccnis luctuosiis, Desbr. 



from the suture almost to the shoulder, a short subhumeral stripe 

 at the base of intervals 9 and 10, a short sutural stripe near the 

 base, a transverse band about the middle, Mhich is narrower on 

 intervals 2-5 and much broader on 6-8, being sometimes almost 

 diAided on interval 5, a larger subapical patch formed of longi- 

 tudinal stripes of unequal length on intervals 2-9, that on 6 

 sometimes absent, and finally a short stripe at the apex of the 

 suture ; the under-parts with dense whitish scaling. 



Head with the eyes very large, sublateral, strongly depressed 

 and a little broader than the forehead, which is about equal to 

 the space between the scrobes. Rostrum broader than long, a 

 little longer than the bead, its sides almost straight and parallel. 



