MYLLOCERUS. 



347 



following large well-defined pale green patches having a slight 

 metallic reflexion : — the prothorax with a broad pale lateral stripe ; 

 the elytra with a transverse patch before the middle on intervals 

 2 to 5, a much larger oblique lateral kidney-shaped patch extending 

 from interval 5 to 10, often uniting at its posterior inner edge 

 with a rounded patch behind the middle on '2 to 5, and finallv a 

 broad lunate patch close to the apex. 



In its structural characters this species agrees entirelv with 



Fig. lOiy. — ]\J//lloceriii< andrewesi, Mshl. 



the typical form of M. suhfasciatus, Guer., except in the larger 

 size nf its eyes which are not narrower than the forehead, in the 

 absence of the rounded lateral impressions on the prothorax. and 

 in the greater development of the internal angulation of che 

 tibite. 



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



Madras:' NUgiris, 2500 ft., and Anamalais, 3500-1000 ft. 

 {H. L. Andreives). 



Type in the British Museum. 



329. Myllocevus dentifer, F. 



Ciirculia dejitifer, Fabricius,* Ent. Svst. i. pt. 2. 1792, p. 438 ; 

 Bohemao, Schiinh. Gen. Cm-c. ii, 1834, p. 430. 



Colour black, with greyish-brown or pale fawn scaling, some- 

 times mottled with snuvll darker spots along the stria\ 



Head with indistinct shallow piinctation beneath the scaling, 

 the eyes widely separated, the s])ace between them greater than 

 that between the scrobes. i^os^yvcw a little longer than the head, 

 the sides very slightly narrowed from base to apex, almost plane 

 above, with a shallow central impression containing a fine carina 

 and ascending the forehead. Antemup. with the scape onlv slightlv 

 exceeding the anterior margin of the prothorax, the fuiiicle with 

 the two basal joints siibequal, 3 scarcely longer than 4. Prothorax 



