MYLLOCERUS. 349 '■ 



with irregular pale o-rey spots and sometimes witii darker markings, 

 the extreme lateral margins almost entirely grey ; under-parts 

 brownish-grey. 



Extremely close to 31. dentifer, F., in structure, and the de- 

 scription of that species applies to it except in the i'oUowinu- 

 particulars : — 



Rostrum very slightly widened at the apex. ProiJiora.v less 

 transverse, almost as long as broad, owing to the greater pro- 

 duction ot the median basal lobe, which makes the base much nioz'e 

 deeply bisinuate. Elytra with the striae broader and the puncta- 

 tion coarser, the setae a good deal longer and more conspicuous on 

 the disk. 



Length., 5^-7 ram. ; breadth, 2\-'j mm. 



Punjab : Eampur, Siitlej A^alley ; Patiala (Pusa Coll.). 

 United Provinces : Almora, 5000 ft., and 'L'akula, Kuuiaon ; 

 Dehra Dun; Allahabad {S. W. Kemp — Ind. Mus.). Bexgal ; 

 Calcutta and Champaran (Ind. Mus.) ; Pusa, Jamalpur, Dacca and 

 Xanti (Pusa Coll.); Katihar and Bhogaon, Purneah dist. (C. ^1. 

 Paiva — Ind. Mus.) ; fSarda {F. W. Champion) ; Angul, Orissa 

 {J. Taylor — Ind. Mus.) ; Bhubaneslnvar, Puri dist. {F. 11. Gravely) ; 

 Berhampur, Murshidabad dist. {E. T. Atlcmson)\ Chilka, Clanjam 

 dist. (Ind. Mus.); Hazrapur (yWood-Mason). 



Type in the Stockholm Museum. 



Further south the species is represented bv the followino- 

 varietal rorm : — 



M. discolor var. variegatus. Boh. 



Tliis differs from the typical form in the absence of the two 

 short basal grey stripes on the protliorax ; the under-parts are 

 nearly always paler, being sometimes almost white ; the grey 

 markings on the elytra are also paler and usually consist of large 

 irregular blotches mingled with small spots. 



Boheman's statement, that the second joint of the funicle is 

 half as long again as the iirst, is clearly an error, due to the fact 

 that in some positions the base of the first joint is partly hidden 

 by the apex of the scape. 



Bombay: Sampgaon and Ghozeh, Belgaum {H. E. Andreives). 

 Madras : Ganjam (Ind. Mus.) ; Nilgiris {H. L. Andreives) ; Mount 

 Stuart, 8. Coimbatore {E. P. Stebhing) ; Madura (C. Somers Smith)\ 

 Gmw^i {Maindro7i). Ceylon: Eppewala (-£". E. Green); Nalanda 

 {Dr. W. Horn). Burma: Taung-ngu (&'. Q. Corhett). 



Type in the Stockholm Museum. 



To the northward again another colour variation occurs, viz.: — 



M. discolor var. uniformis, nov. 



In this form the pale markings of the elytra have entirely 



