126 CEBAMBYCIDJE. 



very strongly, the fifth less strongly thickened towards the apex, 

 the fourth about equal in length and thickness to the first, 

 the third a little longer and thicker than the fourth, subequal in 

 length to the fifth ; shorter than the body in the $ , with the 

 third and fourth joints very slightly thickened, the seventh to 

 tenth more angulate at the apex than in the tf. Prothorax 

 somewhat obtusely angulate or protuberant at the middle of each 

 side ; the whole of the disc strongly and irregularly rugose. 

 Elytra rounded and unarmed at the apex. Acetabula of front 

 coxae angulate on the outer side ; the iutercoxal process vertically 

 deflexed posteriorly. 



Length 56-59 ; breadth 15-17 mm. 



Hal. Allahabad ; Assam (Atkinson coll.) ; Patkai Mts. (Do7ierty\ 



Genus JEOLESTHES. 



^Eolesthes, Gahan, A. M. N. H. (6) vi, p. 250 (1890). 



Type, JZ. aurifaber, White (Hammaticherus), a species from 

 Borneo and Penang. 



Range. Oriental Eegion, extending to Kashmir, Baluchistan, 

 and Turkestan in one direction, and to New Guinea and the 

 Solomon Islands in another. 



Head marked with a somewhat circular furrow in front, that 

 circumscribes a flattened slightly raised space, with a straight or 

 arcuate transverse groove beneath between the cheeks; vertex 

 with a more or less distinct carina passing from the inter- 

 antennary sulcus in front to a level with the hind border of the 

 eyes posteriorly, also a narrow shallow pit behind the earina. 

 Antennae of the male much longer than the body, with each of 

 the joints from the third to the fifth thickened at the apex, and 

 each from the fifth to the eighth armed with a small spine at the 

 hinder apical angle ; those of the female a little longer than the 

 body, with the same joints more distinctly spiried posteriorly, and 

 produced also into a sharp angle or tooth in front at the apex. 

 Prothorax unarmed, rounded or subangulate at the middle of each 

 side, strongly wrinkled above. Elytra clothed with a rich silky 

 pubescence, so arranged that certain parts appear duller or 

 brighter according to the direction of the light falling upon them ; 

 the apices truncate, with a spine or tooth at each of the angles. 

 Acetabula of front coxse very feebly angulate on the outer side ; 

 intercoxal process of prosternum raised and more or less truncate 

 posteriorly. 



123. TEolesthes basicornis, Gahan, A. M. N.H. (6) xi, p. 377 



Dark brown, covered with a dense greyish or golden silky 

 pubescence, so arranged on the elytra as to present the appearance 

 of a number of spots or patches varying in brilliancy according 

 to the direction of the light; legs reddish brown. Intergenal 

 groove on the underside of the head nearly straight, only 



