352 I^Iv. G. ('. Cluunpion on van'otL'i 



19. Asti/Ius atromaculatus. 



Dasiftfs (ifroinaciilatus, Blaiicli. in Voyage d'Orbigny, p. 97. t. 6. 



fig. 10. 

 As/i/lits atromaeulntus, Blanch., var. \'2-m(icul>itus, Pic, L'Echange, 



xvii. p. 36 (1902). 



(J. Aiittrior aiul intermediate tibifB carved. Ventral 

 .segment 5 broadly arcuato-einarginate, 6 about as broad as 

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

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

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

 hnver and apical margins, Penis-.siieath stout, acuminate at 

 apex. 



? . Ventral segment 5 feebly emarginate, 6 traiisverse. 



Hab. Argentina (0. IF". Thomas), Mendoza, Catamarca 

 {Mus. Brit.), Tticiunan {rx cvU. S/uirp) ', BOLIVIA (Mus. 



0,V07l.). 



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

 having the prothorax 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 

 |)atches on the disc of each elytron oblique and less rounded, 

 the median patch more or less constricted at tlie middle and 

 sometimes divided info two spots (the six spots being 

 arranged 2, 2, 1, l = var. 11-macnl iliis, V\c) ; the tegmen of 

 cT 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. atromaeulntus, but states 

 that d'Orbigny found it in jn'ofusion on flowering lianas on 

 the border.s of woods. The Bolivian example in the Oxford 

 Museum is labelled " nigricoUis Hope.'' 



20. Astylas lineatus, 



Anohium lineatum, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 62 '• 



Melyris lineatus, Oliv. Ent. ii. 21, t. 1. tig. G*. 



Dasytes lineatus, Cast. Hist. Nat. Col. i. p. 281 ' ; Blanch, in Voyage 



d'Orbigny, p. 98 \ 

 Asfylus lineatus, Redt. Reise Novara, ii. p. 109 '. 



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

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



* The " ^^lunich " Catalogue incorrectly gives Brazil. 



