io8 Records of the Indian Museum. [Vol. IX, 



Sciitellum shorter than breadth at base, sub-quadrate, 

 ahiiost straight at base, apex rounded, lateral margins very 

 slightl}' reflexed towards base, basal angles very acute; impunctate, 

 black, shining. 



Elytra dark orange-brown, coarsely punctate, two shining 

 ridges run down each elytron, that closer to the suture covers 

 about two-thirds or a little more of the length of the elytron, and 

 is longer than the second ridge which ends at the middle. Margins 

 slightly explanate. There are eight black spots on each elytron 

 disposed as follows : — one on the humeral callus which is promi- 

 nent, shining and impunctate ; on the line of the first elytral ridge 

 (that nearer the suture) three spots, one just beyond the middle, 

 the second at the point where the ridge ends, the third beyond 

 this point on the sloping apical portion of the elytron ; there is a 

 very small and almost obsolete spot at the point where the second 

 (outer) ridge ends, and a large spot at about the middle of the 

 elytron just outside this ridge ; finally there are two on the expla- 

 nate margin, one behind the humerus, the other about one third 

 the length of the margin from the apex at the point where the 

 margin curves inwards to the apex. 



Underside. — Black shining; apex of prosternal process, inner 

 side of middle and hind coxae, apices of tibiae, lobes and claws of 

 tarsi, diluter, more or less rufescent; underside of prothoracic and 

 elytral margins reddish-brown, the elytral marginal black spots 

 showing. First abdominal segment produced in the middle into a 

 pointed process which meets the met astern um between the hind 

 coxae. Prosternal process margined at the sides, expanded 

 apically, with bluntly triangular apex. 



On either side of each abdominal segment is a slightly raised 

 transverse (i mm.) ridge surrounded by a depression ; these ridges 

 are not black, but reddish in colour. 



Tarsus covered with brownish pubescence on the underside. 



3. Epistictia viridimaculata. Boh. 



Boh., Mon. Cassid., 1850, vol. i, p. 15. 



There are twenty examples in the collection, all of which 

 except three are from Sikkim. 



Localities. — Mungphu, Sikkim; Ukhrul, Manipur, 6400 ft., 

 {Rev. W. Pettigrew.); Perak; Upper Tenasserim. 



The colour varies from rufo-testacea to very dark red brown, 

 almost obscuring the elytral spots. 



Var. trivandrumensis, n. var. 



One example from Trivandrum has the prothorax completely 

 yellow without any trace of the bronze-greenish spots. All the 

 specimens I have seen have at least a trace of them and the 

 prothorax is never yellow. It is, therefore, a definite variety. 



