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Hah. Nepal {Gen. Hardwkke), Coimbatoor {M. J. Walhoiise, 

 Esq.). 



Black, moderately broad and depressed ; thorax, scutcllum, and 

 elytra yellowish scarlet*, densely clothed with silky pubescence. 

 Thorax ample, with seven areolets, the lines dividing the lateral 

 ones very obscure, the discoidal one narrow, joined to the anterior 

 margin by a carina ; the posterior angles more or less sharp. Elytra 

 each with four obtuse cost«e ; the interstices with two rows of shallow 

 square punctures, the rows divided by a fine line, the punctures 

 much obscured by dense silky pubescence. 



This is a rather short, broad, and depressed species. 



Var. A. Differs from the type in having the scutellum black ; 

 the thorax has the line dividing the lateral areolets entirely wanting, 

 and the punctures of the elytra are much more distinct, c? , $ • 



Hub. Allahabad (/. C. Bowring, Esq.). 



Var. B. Thorax broad, with seven areolets. Elytra each with 

 four costas ; the interstices with two rows of rather transverse shallow 

 punctures, the rows not divided by any visible line ; the punctures 

 and aU the surface clothed with densely matted pubescence. 



Hab. Ceylon. 



Metriorrhjmclius astutus. 



(Plate XIII. fig. 8.) 



Lycus astutus, Walker, Ann. ^ Mag. N. Hist, 1858, ii. p. 281. 



Niger, supra opacus, pubescens ; thorace elytrisque rufo-oehraceis, 

 his apice nigris. 6,2- Long. 3|-6 lin. 



Hab. Ceylon {Br. Templeton and Br. TJmaites). 



This may perhaps be a variety of 31. lineatus, Hope, having the 

 apical third of the elytra black. The punctures in the striiie of the 

 elytra arc, however, rather smaller than in any examples of M. 

 lineatus. 



The scutcUum is sometimes red and sometimes black. The ridges 

 on the thorax are occasionally very much obliterated. 



Metriorrhynclius simulans. 



(Plate XIII. fig. 11.) 



Fuscus ; elytris basi obscure ferrugineis, vix pubescentibus. J . 



Long. Sg-i^ Hn. 

 Hab. Penang (J. C. Bowring, Esq.). 



Very close to M. astutus, but smaller and fuscous, clothed with 



ashy tomentum ; the thorax relatively smaller and narrower, with 



seven distinct areolets. Scutellum fuscous. Elytra with the basal 



half obscure ferruginous, scarcely pubescent ; each elytron with four 



* The Hopean type is now obscure yellow. 



