352 Mr. G. 0. Champion on various 



19. Astylus atromaculatus. 



Dasutes atromaculatus, Blanch, in Voyage d'Orbigny, p. 97, t. 6. 



fig. 10. 

 Astylus atromaculatus, Blanch., var. 12-maculatus, Pic, L'Echange, 



xvii. p. 36 (1902). 



cJ . Anterior and intermediate tibiae curved. Ventral 

 segment o broadly arcuato-emarginate, 6 about as broad as 

 long, deeply, triangularly notched at tip. Tegmeii with long, 

 broad lateral dobes, which are incurved at the apex within, 

 subtruncate or blunt at the tip, and flavo-ciliate along their 

 lower and apical margins. Penis-sheath stout, acuminate at 

 apex. 



? . Ventral segment 5 feebly emarginate, 6 transverse. 



Nab. AKGENTINA (0. W. Thomas), Mendoza, Catamarca 

 (Mas. Brit.), Tucuman (ex coll. Sharp); BoLivrA (Mus. 

 Oxon.). 



A close ally of A. variegatus, but differing from it in 

 having the pro thorax densely clothed with adpressed cinereous 

 hairs (in addition to the long, erect, bristly, black hairs) at 

 the sides and down the middle, the cinereous pubescence 

 extending over the greater part of the dorsum in the 

 Tucuman examples ; the median and postmedian. black 

 patches on the disc of each elytron oblique and less .rounded, 

 the median patch more or less constricted at the middle and 

 sometimes divided into two spots (the six spots being 

 arranged 2, 2, 1, l = var. 12-macul ilus, Pic) ; the tegmen of 

 cC with incurved more or less truncate lateral lobes. Living 

 examples of this insect have been captured at Durban and 

 Pretoria, doubtless introduced with hay during the Boer War. 

 Blanchard gave no locality* for A. atromaculatus, but states 

 that d'Orbigny found it in profusion. on flowering lianas, oji 

 the borders of woods. The Bolivian example in the Oxford 

 Museum is labelled " nigricollis Hope/' 



20. Astylus lineatus. 



Anobium Hneatum, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 62 1# 



Melyris lineatus, Oliv. Ent. ii. 21, t. 1. fig. 6 2 . 



Dasytes lineatus, Cast. Hist. Nat. Col. i. p. 281 3 : Blanch, in Voyage 



d'Orbigny, p. 98 i . 

 Astylus lineatus, Retlt. Reise Novara, ii. p. 109 5 . 



(J . Anterior and intermediate tibiae feebly curved. Ven- 

 tral segment 5 deeply arcuato-emarginate, 6 conical, broader 



* The " Munich " Catalogue incorrectly gives Brazil. 



