MYLLOCERUS. 335 



with very short recumbent setfe. Legs piceous, the femora with 

 a very small, and sometimes indistinct, additional tooth. 



Length, 3^-4 mm. ; breadth, l^-lf mm. 



Madras : Anamalai Hills, 3500-40U0 ft. {H. L. Andrewes). 



Type in the British Museum. 



312. Myllocerus suavis, Fst. 



Myllocerus suavis, Faust,* Deut. Ent. Zeit. 1897, p. 3G1. 



Colour black or piceous, with metallic green scaling ; the pro- 

 thorax with a broad denuded central stripe, the elytra with 

 irregular darker denuded spots on the disk. 



Head with the eyes subdorsal, the forehead not broader than 

 the space between the scrobes. liostnim about as long as the 

 head, its sides narrowed from the base to the middle, and dilated 

 at the apex, the apical euiargination shallow aud forming an 

 obtuse angle; the upper surface plane and with a very fine central 

 carina which ascends the forehead. Antenn<x rufescent aud with 

 fine erect sette : the funicle with joint 2 longer than 1, and 3 

 slightly longer than 4. Prothorax transverse, the sides slightly 

 rounded, broadest at the middle, shallowly constx'icted before and 

 behind, the apical margin oblique at the sides and not narrower 

 than the base, which is shallowly bisinuate, with the posterior 

 angles acute ; the upper surface closely punctate and with short 

 erect setae. Elytra subtruncate at the base, the shoulders roundly 

 rectangular, the sides slightly dilated behind, finely punctato- 

 striate, the intervals with fairly long, dense, pale erect setae. Legs 

 flavescent, the femora with a few green scales and a minute 

 tooth. I 



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



Bombay : N. Kanara {T. R. D. Bell). 



Type in the Dresden Museum. 



313. Myllocerus necopinus, sp. uov. 



Colour black, with dark brown scaling on the upper surface, the 

 elytra mottled with grey ; the sides and under-parts with uniform 

 grey scaling. 



Head with the eyes lateral and strongly convex, the forehead 

 very broad and flat, with a distinct central fovea. Rostrum evi- 

 dently transverse in the $ , rather longer in the S , slightly 

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

 apex, the apical emargination rather shallow, but the bordering 

 carinse forming an acute angle ; the median dorsal area bounded 

 on each side by a distinct obtuse ridge and gradually widening 

 behind, broadly impressed in its anterior half and containing 

 a low narrow central carina, the space between the scrobes 

 much narrower than the forehead. Antennce piceous ; the scape 



