BEACHYPLATYS. — VIGETUS. 13 



B. Lateral margins of abdomen someivliat narrowly ocJiraceous. 



16. Brachyplatys funebris, Did. A. M. N. H. (7) viii, p. 23o (1901). 



Above black, moderately shining with a dull olivaceous hue ; 

 eyes castaneous ; head beneath and sternum black opaque; abdomen 

 beneath shining olivaceous-black ; central area o£ head beneath, 

 extreme lateral mai'gins of pronotum both above and beneath, 

 extreme lateral and apical margins of scutellum and abdomen 

 ochraceous ; lateral margins of abdomen beneath ochraceous, 

 notched internally and containing a submarginal series of black 

 spots ; legs castaneous, the femoral apices, tibiae, and tarsi brownish- 

 ochraceous ; antennae and rostrum brownish-ochraceous. Body 

 above thickly and finely punctate. 



Length 8 to 9 ; max. breadth 7 to 8 millim. 



Hah. Assam ; Sadiya (Chennell). 



Genus VIGETUS. 

 Vigetus, Dlst. A. M. N. H. (7) viii, p. 2.34 (1901). 



Type, V. typicus, Dist. 



Distribution. At present known only from Assam. 



Body broad, convex above. Head broad, short, deeply inserted 

 in the pronotum, concave from between the region of the eyes, ou 

 the inner margin of which is a short distinct transverse ridge ; 

 anterior margin very slightly rounded, the lobes about equal in 

 length, or central lobe slightly shortest ; eyes moderately trans- 

 verse ;*ocelli nearer to the eyes than to each other. Pronotum 



Fig. 7. — Vigetus typicus. 



convex, the anterior lateral margins convexly rounded and 

 moderately laminately produced, the lateral angles distinctly 

 nodulose ; anterior margin concavely excavated for the reception 

 of the head ; posterior margin nearly straight. Scutellum broad, 

 about completely covering the abdomen, its apex distinctly con- 

 cavely ^excavated in the male. Rostrum apparently reaching the 



