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Hub. Nepal {(Jul. Hardwicke), Coimbatoor (M. J. Walhovue, 



Esq. ). 



Black, moderately broad and depressed; thorax, scutellum, and 

 elytra yellowish, scarlet*, densely clothed with silky pubescence. 

 Thorax ample, with seven areolets, the lines dividing the lateral 

 ones very obscure, the discoidal one narrow, joined to the anterior 

 margin by a carina; the posterior angles more or less sharp. Elytra 

 each with tour obtuse cosUe ; the inl erst ices with two TOWS of shallow 

 square punctures, the rows divided by a fine line, the punctures 

 much obscured by dense silky pubescence. 



This is a rather short, broad, and depressed species. 



Var. A. Differs from the type in having the scutellum black ; 

 the thorax has the line dividing the lateral areolets entirely wanting, 

 and the punctures of the elytra are much more distinct. <S , 2 • 



Hob. Allahabad (J. G. Bowring, Esq.}. 



Var. B. Thorax broad, with seven areolets. Elytra each with 

 four costa; ; the interstices with two rows of rather transverse shallow 

 punctures, the rows not divided by any visible line ; the punctures 

 and all the surface clothed with densely matted pubcsccnco. 



Hah. Ceylou. 



Metriorrhynchus astutus. 



(Plate XIII. fig. 8.) 



Lycus astutus, Walker, Ann. § Mag. N. Hist, 1858, ii. p. 281. 



Niger, supra opaeus, pubescens ; thorace elytrisque rufo-ochraceis, 

 his apice nigris. d , 2 • Long. 3^-6 lin. 



Hah. Ceylon (Dr. Templeton and Dr. Thwaites). 



This may perhaps be a variety of M. lineatus, Hope, having tho 

 apical third of the elytra black. The punctures in the striao of tho 

 elytra are, however, rather smaller than in any examples of M. 

 lineatus. 



The scutellum is sometimes red and sometimes black. The ridges 

 on the thorax are occasionally very much obliterated. 



Metriorrhynchus simulans. 



(Plate XIII. fig. 11.) 



Fuscus ; elytris basi obscure ferrugineis, vix pubescentibus. <$ . 



Long. 3^-4] lin. 

 Hah. Penang (J. C. Bow-ring, Esq.). 



Very close to JI. astutus, but smaller and fuscous, clothed with 

 ashy tomentum ; the thorax relatively smaller and narrower, with 

 seven distinct areolets. Scutellum fuscous. Elytra with the basal 

 half obscure ferruginous, scarcely pubescent ; each elytron with four 



* The Ilopcaii type is now obscure yellow. 



