SCHOTTUS. 201 



Genus PHYSORHYNCHUS. (Vol. II, p. 318.) 



PlIYSOliHYNCHUS LIXNJEI. (Vol. II, p. 319.) 



Mr. E. E. Green records (' Spolia Zeylanica ') that he saw an 

 immature specimen of this species attack and eventually kill a 

 large millipede measuring 5f inches in length. 



Genus SCHOTTUS. 

 (After Vilius, Vol. II, p. 324.) 

 Schottus, Dist. A. M, N. H. (7) x, p. 293 (1902). 



Type, S. sulicus, Walk., from the Malayan Archipelago. 



Distribution. Ceylon ; Malay Peninsula, Malayan Archipelago. 



Head moderately short, broad, gibbous behind the eyes, constricted 

 at base, anteriorly centrally produced ; antennae four-jointed, 

 moderately pilose, somewhat robust, first and second joints 

 stoutest, first about as long or almost as long as head, second 

 distinctly longer than first, third and fourth more slender and 

 subequal ; rostrum with the first joint longer than the second, 

 very little shorter in length than second and third together ; pro- 

 notum centrally foveately sulcate from base of anterior to near 

 base of posterior lobe, longitudinally sulcate near posterior angles, 

 transverse constriction interrupted at central sulcation ; scutellum 

 biangulate posteriorly, the mucronate angles somewhat widely 

 separated ; connexivum exposed and upwardly directed ; hemely tra 

 almost reaching apex of abdomen ; anterior femora not prominently 

 incrassated, with a distinct tuberculous spine beneath ; sternum 

 more or less channelled between the intermediate coxae. 



Allied to Vilius (vol. ii, p. 324) but at once separated by the 

 structure of the rostrum. 



2974. Schottus kandyensis, Dist. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. liii, p. 368 

 (1909). 



Sanguineous ; membrane black ; corium (excluding extreme 

 costal margin and apical angle) and base of membrane reddish- 

 ochraceous ; antennas black, first joint sanguineous, basal joint 

 about as long as head, second about one-fourth longer than first, 

 third and fourth subequal in length, first and second stoutest, third 

 and fourth slender and pilose ; head transversely impressed behind 

 eyes and just before ocelli ; rostrum with the first joint longer 

 than second, very little shorter than second and third together ; 

 pronotum with the anterior lobe moderately sculptured, centrally 

 longitudinally impressed, posterior lobe centrally and sublaterally 

 longitudinally sulcate, the central sulcation not reaching base ; 

 scutellum triangulate posteriorly, the mucronate angles widely 

 separated ; membrane not quite reaching abdominal apex ; anterior 



