MYLLOCERUS. 329 



and subeqiial, 3 scarcely longer than 4. Prothorax subconical, 

 shorter than its basal width, broadest at the base and strongly 

 narrowed to the apex, the sides being slightly sinuated behind the 

 middle, the basal margin deeply bisinuate, the external angles 

 acute, wirh large scattered punctures above and sometimes Avith a 

 faint central carina in the anterior half. Elytra comparatively 

 broad, the shoulders rather sloping, finely punctato-striate (when 

 the scaling is intact), the seta3 very short and depressed, scarcely 

 discernible on the disk. Lefjs piceous, with grey scaling, all the 

 femora with a single small tooth. 



Length, 4^-6 mm. ; breadth, 2-2| mm. 



Madeas: Pondicherry (Pm-ofet) ; Madura (P. Barton WrujJu) ; 

 on Jcacia, Bergwada (Pusa Coll.); Bangalore, 3000 ft. (Anstead— 

 Pusa Coll.) ; on Casuarma, Waltair (E. P. Stehbing—lnd. Mus.) ; 

 Chatrapur, Ganjam (E. P. Stehhing). Bexgal :' Angul, Orissa 

 {J. Taiilor—lw\. Mus.). 



Type in the Stockholm Museum. 



Corigetas exaptas, Pst., is indistinguishable from this species. 



304. Myllocerus lateralis, Chev. 



Myllocerus lateralis, Chevrolat,* Le Natural, ii, 1882, p. 93. 



Colour piceous ; the head and prothorax with dense green 

 scaling, the latter with three indistinct subdeuuded darker stripes, 

 the central one being narrower; the elytra with the suture pale 

 green throughout, the intervals 2-4 and the basal half of 5 and 6 

 with brownish scales inlermixed with a few green ones, the lateral 

 intervals and the apices of 5-6 pale metallic green ; the under- 

 parts entirely green. 



Head with the eyes lateral and convex, the forehead broader 

 tlian the space between the scrobes and without any furrow or 

 carina. Rostrum about as long as broad, not longer than the head, 

 narrowed from the base to the middle and strongly dilated at the 

 apex, the apical emargination rather shallow and rounded ; the 

 upper surface almost plane, subcarinate above the scrobe and with 

 a faint central stria. Antenna; piceous, with pale scaling, the 

 scape stout and gradually clavate; the funicle with joint 1 evidently 

 longer than 2, 3-7 subequal. Prothorax broader than long, the 

 sides rounded, broadest at the middle, the base shallowly bisinuate, 

 the apex scarcely narrower and obliquely truncate at" the sides ; 

 the upper surface with deep separated punctures which are visible 

 through the scaling. Scutellum transverse and squamose. Elytra 

 subtruncate at the base, the slioulders roundly subrectangular, the 

 sides parallel to beyond the middle, narrowly but deeply pimctato- 

 striate, the intervals ])lane and broader than the striae, with dense 

 scaling and \yithout appreciable setag. Legs piceous, with greenish 

 scaling, the femora with a single small tooth. 



Length, 4-4| mm. ; breadth, l|-2 mm. 



Andaman Islands {Roepstorff). 



Type in the Stockholm Museum. 



