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Subfam. Melyrides. 



77. ApalocJirus fasciatus Fab., Ent. Syst., I, p. 218, 20. 

 Apaloch'us lœtus Erichs., Entomographien, p. 51, 1840; 



Bourgeois, C. R. Soc. Ent. Beig., 1891, p. 4. (Hab. prœtermissa). 



Apaloclims fasciatus, was first described by Fabricius as Gan- 

 tJiaris fasciata : < C. thorace marginato, elytris testaceis : fasciis 

 tribus cyaneis ». 



Habitat in India orientali « Dom. de Sehestedt » with a few lines 

 furtherof description. Ent. Syst., I, p. 218 [1792]. 



Then in Syst. El., I, p. 305 Fabricius describes an insect from 

 Sumatra as MalacMus lœtus : « M. elytris flavis; fasciis tribus 

 cyaneis, baseos lunata. Habitat in Sumatra Dom. Daldorff »; to 

 this he refers this former G antharis fasciata as a synonym. 



We hâve now from India a species clearly agreeing with the 

 older Fabrician description, having the thorax with a broad 

 blackish-blue vitta and the legs (at least the anterior pair of the 

 maie) yellow, spécimens of this insect from Belgaum « Taken 

 during May and June flying during the morning generally in 

 sunshine » and from Kanara are before me, and this is also clearly 

 the insect recorded by M. Bourgeois from Kiinbir Nowatoli, Tetara, 

 Kurseong, 



But there is another closely allied insect having the thorax 

 entirely yellow. And this is equally clearly the Apalochrus laetus 

 of Erichsons description, the maies hâve the first joint of their front 

 tarsi produced, their legs are yellow (with the exception of the 

 posterior femora at their apices, the tibiae and tarsi), and the middle 

 trochanters hâve the singular dilated and produced structure, 

 described by Erichson. Spécimens (^ and 9 of this are before me 

 from Burma, Tharawaddy and Shewegyin (Corbett). 



The question arises are thèse insects forms of one species and 

 can either of them be identified with the Fabrician MalacMus 

 lœtîts from Sumatra. I think not. I think that it will be wiser at 

 présent to regard them as distinct species coming as they do from 

 very distant localities. 



I hâve moreover a third, and nearly allied species which I now 

 describe in connection with thèse. 



78. Apalochrus depictus n. sp. — A. fasciati (Cantharis Fab.) 

 summa similitudine, elytrorum picttcra minus late ampUata; 

 nigro-cœrulea, tJiorace elytrisque testaceis, Tiis macula humerali 

 lunata, fasciisque duabus undulatis cyaneis, illo vitta mediana 

 nigro-cœrulea^ antennarum basi,pedibusque anticis et intermediis 



