EEYTHKUS. -'^^ 



Hah. Assam (Jenlins), type 2 in Hope Museum, Oxford 

 TtivViYin^ • Bvit. Blnitun {in coll. Oberthur). 



I have een no male specimeu that can with certamty be referred 

 to thlSspSes. The spLies is very closely allied to E. Jortunn. 

 White, from China and Houg Kong. 



260. Erythrus westwoodi, White, Cat. Cokopt. B. M., Lonyk. p. 143 

 (1853). 

 Head to a greater or less extent, prothorax and ektra carraine- 

 recl md very nearly opaque; the prothorax with two black 

 «nnts or a sino-le continuous band on each side o he disc; an- 

 !P I 'n.^tS lum lec^s and underside black. Head densely punc- 

 tuMe' w 1 ^"' ocHput, anterior part of the clypeus and the 

 tulate, ^Mtll ^^^^ ^^^^^^j-y^^ usually black ; sometimes very nearly 

 black AntennjB extend to the middle ot 

 the elytra in the ? , and to a short distance 

 beyond it in the c? ; third and fourth joints 

 thickened at the apex, the fifth to tenth com- 

 i^essed and dilated. Prothorax rugulose-punctate, 

 similar in form to that of E. bicolor, Westw., 

 furnished on the disc with four tubercles-two 

 near the middle and two near the base, the two 

 vi, 86 ^^edian tubercles mamilliform, the basal less 



ErP^^cst- strongly raised ; the black spots that, cover the 

 uvidl, White. tubercles usually extend between hem so as to 

 form a band, sometimes prolonged m front, on 

 \. cSrIp . the disc evenly and rather feebly convex between the 

 bands Ely ^ a little more strongly punctured than those of 

 ^t- oZo.- each elvtron with only a single dorsal costa, which is, 

 Wever more pi^minent than the median costa in iJ. 6.co?or 

 Eodv be'ne^th black, except the prosternum which, like the res ot 

 SroSorax, is red; very densely punctuate, and scarcely less 

 finely so on the metasternum than on the other parts. 

 r'^nafh 17^-22 ; hreadih 4-5 mm. 

 S HinTalayas; Northern India (5.d-?.^) ; Almora ; Mampur 



(Doherty). 



261. Erythrus coccineus, sp. u. 



Head prothorax and elytra carmine-red very nearly opaque; 

 thf n^thorax with a small round velvety black spot on each side 

 S the middle of the disc; antenna, scutellum. legs, meso- and 

 netathomx black: abdomen brown, more or less deeply tinged 

 wftlfSred. Head densely punctulate. Antjnn^ about th ree- 

 fou t the length of the body in the 6 , not extended beyond the 

 nidde of the^elytra in the $; first joint dense^' ^^ ^t the 

 fifth joint angulate, and the sixth to tenth sharply dentate, at the 



