EXDOCUUS. 



365 



margins of sternum and abdomen and abdominal apex san- 

 guineous ; membrane shining bluish black ; head shorter than 

 pronotum, which has the posterior lateral spines short. 



Length 25 millim. 



Hah. Sylhet {Brit. Mus.). Assam ; Naga Hills {Doherti/). 



This appears to be a somewhat local species. It was not found 

 by I'ea either in Burma or Tenasserim, and being a large conspi- 

 cuously coloured insect, could not have been easily overlooked iu 

 Southern India or Cevlon. 



Genus ENDOCHUS. 



Eiidocluis, Stdl, Ofo. Yet. -Ah. lorh. l»o9, p. 19-i : id. Stett. enf. 



Zeit. xxii. p. 130 (1861) ; id. Hem. Afr. iii, p. 51 (1865) ; id. En. 



Hem. iv, p. 9 (1874). 

 Subg. I'nirsus, Stdl, Ofv. Vet.-AJc. Fiirh. 1859, p. 364. 



Type, E. nigricornis, Stal. 



Distribution. Ethiopian, Oriental, and Australasian Eegions ; 

 China and Japan. 



Head about as long as pronotum, cylindrical, spiued on each 

 side behind base of antenna, postocular longer, but not quite twice 

 as long as, anteocular portion ; antennae with the tirst joint 

 variable in length, either as long as head, pronotum and scutelluni 

 together, or equal to abdomen or posterior femora ; rostrum with 



the first joint a little longer 

 than the second ; pi'onoturn 

 with the anterior lobe 

 medially impressed, lateral 

 angles to posterior lobe 

 acutely spinously produced, 

 disk of posterior lobe un- 

 armed ; scutellum with the 

 apex usually distinctly acu- 

 minate or angulate. 



A. Basal joint of antenna' 

 suhequal in lenrjtli to head, 

 pronotum and scutellum 

 together-, or to anterior 

 femora. 



1286. Endochus nigricor- 

 nis, Sfa/, Ofv. Vet.-Ah. 

 i-or//. I859,p. 194; Rmt. 

 Ad. Soc. Sc. Feiin. p. 280 

 (1881). 



Ochi-aceous or pale 

 luteous ; two central lines 

 to posterior lobe of head 

 (broken in the middle), two central spots preceded by a small 

 arcuated fascia to anterior pronotal lobe, disk of posterior lobe and 



Fig. 233. — Endochus nigrico7'nis. 



