352 crKCULioNiD.E. 



Cuttack, Orissa. Madras : Bangalore, 3000 ft. (Annandale — lud. 

 Mus.). 



Tj/2>e in the Indian Museum. 



Mr. Stebbing records this form as defoliating sissu trees (Dal- 

 hergia sissoo). At Pusa it has been found on strawberry, lucerne, 

 cotton, tvir, sunflower, sugar-cane, pomegranate, Zizyphvs jvjnha 

 and mango. 



M. 11-pustulatus var. marmoratus, Fsf. 



Ground-colour dirty cbalk-wliite, sometimes with a pinkish 

 tinge ; the head pale ochreous : the elytra with comparatively 

 faint grey mottling, forming transverse or oblique bands. 



I have seen only three specimens, which I cannot distinguish 

 structurally from ll-]mstulah(s. 



Bombay : Ghozeh, Belgaum (//. E. Andrewes) ; jN". Kanara 

 {T. R.D. Bell). 



Ty2W in the Dresden Museum. 



1 have also seen six specimens in the Paris Museum from Maht- 

 (M. M(nndron) which to some extent combine the characters of 

 the two preceding Aarieties. The general colour is chalk_y-\^ hire 

 or grey ; the dark luarkings on the elytra are distioct and form a 

 sort of broken stripe along each side of the suture, and do not 

 extend laterally to the nuirgins as in mai-moratns ; the prothorax 

 has three broad subdenuded dark stripes. They are above the 

 average in size, the largest measuring 7^ X 3^ mm. 



Genus HYPERSTYLUS. 



Hijperstylus, Eoeloffs, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xvi, 1873, p. 171. 



Type, llyperstuhis pcdlipes, Eoel. (Japan). 



Head exserted, the eyes lateral. Rostnim continuous with the 

 head; the scrobes dorsal, foveiform and close to the apex: mandibles 

 and mentum as in MyUocerus. Antenna' with the scape strongly 

 curved and gradually clavate ; the funicle with joint 1 evidently 

 longer than 2, 2 longer than 3, 3-7 subequal, club narrowly ovate 

 and acunnnate. liostrum truncate at base and apex, the apical 

 margin oblique at the sides, the gular margin not sinuate. Elytra 

 subtruncate at the base, the shoulders prominent and roundly 

 rectangular, the sides parallel, or slightly dilated behind the 

 middle in the 5 , with 10 fine punctate stride, the intervals plane 

 and smooth. Sternum and venter as in Myllocerus. Legs with the 

 femora unarmed, otherwise as in Mylloeeras. 



Range. India and Japan. 



These insects can be distinguished only by their unarmed 

 femora from those small species of lUyUocerus \\-hich have the base 

 of the prothorax truncate and the tirst joint of the funicle longer 

 than the second. 1 can find no good reason for separating them 

 generically from Eoeloifs' Japanese species. 



