MTLLOCERUS. 333 



309. Myllocerus manipurensis, sp. iiov. 



Colour piceous, with liglit brownish scaHng, usually more or less 

 mingled with green scales, the elytra with the suture paler in the 

 basal half. 



Head with the eyes lateral and rather prominent, the forehead 

 much broader than the space between the scrobes. liostrum 

 broader than long, almost parallel-sided, the apical emargination 

 shallow and ronnded : the upper surface not impressed, the three 

 carina? scarcely perceptible. Antenna; red-brown, rather short, 

 the scape with erect seta? ; the funicle with joints I and 2 equal, 

 the terminal joints transverse, the club rather broadly ovate. 

 Prothorax a little broader than long, the sides slightly rounded, 

 broadest about the middle, shallowly constricted before and 

 behind, the base bisinuate, the apical margin of equal width and 

 oblique laterally; the upper surface with a rounded impression on 

 each side behind the middle, the punctation scarcely visible through 

 the scaling. Ehjtra separately rounded at the base, the shouldel-s 

 roundly rectangular, the sides dilated behind the middle, the stride 

 narrow and finely punctate, the seta3 short, stiff, and obliquely 

 raised ; the scutellum squamose. Legs rufescent, with thin pale 

 scaling, the femora with a small tooth. 



Lemjth, 2|-2|- mm. ; breadth, l-l^ mm. 



Assam: Manipur (Z)o7<n-/y— type) ; Ukhrul, 6400 ft., Manipur 

 {Rev. W. Petti greiv—lnd. Mus.). 



Type in the British Museum. 



310. Myllocerus blandus, Fst. 



Myllocerus blandus, Faust,* Ann. Mus. Civ. Geneva, xxxiv, 1894 

 p. 197 (1895). ' 



Colour black, with dense greyish scaling; the elytra usually 

 with two irregular whitish patches, one before, the other behind 

 the middle, and also with some small darker spots. 



Head with the eyes entirely lateral, the forehead twice as broad 

 as the space between the scrobes. Rostrum as long as broad, a 

 little longer than the head, its sides slightly narrowed from the 

 base, but not dilated at the apex, the apical emargination very 

 shallow, the up])er surface with a broad central furrow. Antenn'ce 

 flavescent, rather short; the funicle with the two basal joints 

 equal, the remaining joints very short and all of about equal 

 length. Prothorax as long as broad, its sides rounded, broadest 

 at the middle, shallowly constricted and transversely impressed in 

 front and behind, the base shallowly bisinuate, not broader than 

 the apex, which is obliquely truncate; the upper surface rather 

 uueveu and coarsely punctate. Elytra jointly sinuate at the base, 

 the shoulders subrectangular, the sides slightly dilated behind the 

 middle, the punctures in the stria? scarcely visible through the 



