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them by the scrobe running beneath the eye in Peripagis, and not 

 so running in Catastygnus. There certainly is a slight diflerence in 

 the lower edge of the scrobe in rufipes, and all the species referred 

 to (latastygnus; in rufipes it does not pass beneatJt (1) the eye, but its 

 hind part touches the lower portion of the front of the eye. In the 

 other species it is directed slightly above the lower portion of the 

 eye, and it varies slightly in the different species. 



I certainly do not think that the slight difference in direction is 

 sufficient to distribute the species into two genera, and have no 

 hesitation in referring them all to Peripagis. The subfamily the 

 genus belongs to is the Leptopsides, not the CijUndrorhinides . 



544. PER[PAGIS RUFIPES Pasc. 



The Museum sent me for examination six specimens of a species, 

 two of which were labelled Veripag is rufipes Pasc. ('?). It, however, 

 seemed fo me to be a Catastygnus, altough it agreed with Pascoe's 

 generic description. I was not awai-e at the time that Calaatygnus 

 was really a synonym of Peripagis and so sent a specimen to the 

 British Museum for comparison with the type. M. Gilbert-J. 

 Arrow, of that institution, kindly wrote me as follows : — 



a The specimen you have sent us appears to me to agree in all 

 essentials with the type of J'eripagis rufipes Pasc. We have no 

 other representative of the species, and these two seem to exhibit 

 the extremes of marking, the type havmg only a minute white spot 

 at the middle of each elytron (2) : It is a trifle smaller than your 

 example, and the legs are a little paler in colour, but I see no 

 other difference. » 



The species is a very variable one, no two of those before me 

 being alike in their markings. The white margin to the elytra, 

 however, in always present. On one specimen the disc of the elytra 

 is entirely without markings; on another each elytron has one 

 minute spot; on another each has four minute spots; on another 

 there are six. On another there is a wide angular somewhat V — 

 chaped patch of dark scales commencing on each shoulder and ter- 

 minating on the suture beyond the middle, with some elongated 

 spots of dark scales posteriorly, the rest of the elytral scales being 

 white. On another the elytral scales except for feeble remnants of 

 a darky are entirely white. Tlie scales on the prothorax are also 

 somewhat variable. The size varies from 9 to 12 mill. In general 

 appearance (except for the clothing) it is much like stigma. 



(1) In the orif^inal description Pascok speaks of « its weel warked scrobes 

 extending to the eyes ». 



(2) The spot was not mentioned in the original description. 



