jRUTis. 235 



Eyes unarmed beneath ; elavus sonie\^liat acutely closed at a]iex ; 

 posterior tibiae usually with six spines ; niesonotum half as long 

 again as the pronotum ; antennee short, second joint globose; 

 head (including eyes) distinctly narrower than the pronotum, the 

 lateral margins of which ai'e subangularly ampliate : anterior 

 tibiae moderately dilated : abdomen very broad and robust : 

 tegmina a little longer than body, narrower than wings, venation 

 considerably reticulate, transverse veinlets often faintly visible, 

 but extending to near base. 



1767. Frutis pillchra. Gray (Lvstra), Grif. An. Kingd., Ins. ii, p. 260 

 t. xc, f. 5 (iS-d,'2) { StSl (Frutis), Oft: Vet.-Ak. Fork. 1862, 

 pp. 488 & 500; Atkins. J. A. S. Bern/. Iv, p. 22 (1886). 

 AplifBiia veris-amor, Walk. J. Lijin. Soc, Zool. \, p. 143 (1857). 



Head, thorax above, stern uui, and legs olivaceous-brown ; tibiae 

 and tarsi infuscate ; abdomen above and beneath sanguineous, 

 with lateral segmental spiracular small tufts of greyish pile ; 



Fig. 101. — Fn(fi!> pulclira. 



anal appendage pale ochraceous, usually broadly covered with 

 white waxy efflorescence ; tegmina shining dark virescent, macularly 

 a little paler at extreme base, the costal area m.ottled with 

 ci'etaceous secretion ; an ont\^"ardly curved ochraceous transverse 

 fascia at about one-third from apex, beyond which the colour is 

 paler, and before which there is a subobsolete paler oblique fascia ; 

 in some specimens the costal and apical areas and basal macu- 

 lation are dull ochraceous ; tegmina beneath, with the margin of 

 the curved ochraceous fascia, and some scattered spots cretaceously 

 tomentose : wings cretaceously opaque, the margins a little paler 

 and sometimes slightly ochraceous. 



Length excl. tegm. 19 to 23 ; exp. tegm. 48 to 55 millim. 



Hah. " India" ^fide Gray Sf Atl-inson). — Malay Peninsula: Perak 

 (OoU. Dist.). Borneo. 



