104 Mr. Oliver^. Jansoii's Additions to 



Arrow from the same locality ; both are common European 

 species and of wide distribution, ranging through Asia 

 Minor. Mesopotamia and western Persia to Baluchistan, 

 where the Indian fauna assumes a very Palaearctic char- 

 acter. All Capt. Selous' specimens have a second white 

 spot on the outer discal costa, a little before the middle 

 of the elytra, that I do not find present in any of the many 

 European examples that I have had an opportunity of 

 examining. 



Anatona selousi, n. sp. 



o Body of an oval, compact and convex form. Castaneous, 

 shining; base of head, the prothorax and elytra testaceous red, 

 opaque, and Avith shining castaneous markings disposed as follows : 

 On the prothorax a marginal band on each side, and eight small 

 spots, viz. three placed in a nearly regular longitudinal row on each 

 side of the disc and two in the middle (both prolonged anteriorly 

 with a tendency to form a median stripe); on the scutellum an 

 apical spot prolonged anteriorly; on each elytron eight spots, viz. 

 one in the middle near the base, one near the suture and just before 

 the middle, one about equidistant between the last and the apex 

 and close to the suture, and four adjoining the outer margin, the 

 first at the lateral sinus, the second and third (both small) behind the 

 middle and the fourth close to the sutural angle. The pygidium and 

 the sides of the prothorax, sternum and abdomen with irregular 

 chalky-white markings. Head somewhat flattened between the 

 eyes, coarsely and confluently punctured; clypeus long, narrowed 

 in front, with a slight median carina and slightly produced and 

 strongly reflexed angles. Prothorax nearly as broad in the middle 

 as at the base, strongly narrowed in front, the base feebly tri-sinuate 

 and with the lateral angles rounded ; the disc with a very fine and 

 sparse j)uncturation which becomes coarser and very much closer 

 in front and towards the sides. Scutellum large, sUghtly rounded 

 at the sides, impunctate. Elytra feebly bi-costate, with six discal 

 rows of small and rather remote punctures, the sides with scattered 

 fine punctures and the apex slightly strigose. Pygidium sparsely 

 setose and remotely punctured, transversely strigose only in the 

 middle. Underside thinly clothed with yellowish-grey pubescence 

 and punctured at the sides ; metastemum with an impressed median 

 line ; sternal process broad, rounded and with an impressed hirsute 

 line just before the apex; abdomen with a broad central depression. 

 Legs stout, anterior tibiae with two large marginal teeth, and the 

 apex rather obtuse, all the femora and tibiae thinly fringed with 

 long golden-grey hair. Length 17 mm., breadth 9 mm. 



