240 MR. H. E. ANDRE WES ON THE 



joints 1-3 of antennae, two spots on each elytron, epipleurae of 

 elytra adjacent to front spot, and legs testaceous yellow. 



Head (l - 20 nun. wide) convex, shiny, pubescent, very coarsely 

 punctate ; clypeus, neck, and a small foveiform area on middle of 

 front and vertex smooth and polished, eyes prominent. Prolhorax 

 convex, rather narrow, not much wider than head (with eyes), a 

 third wider than long, sides rounded, sinuate before hind angles, 

 which are acute, reflexed, and directed backwards ; median line 

 ratherdeep; surface closely, coarsely, and continently punctate, with 

 yellowish pubescence. Elytra convex, rather square at shoulder, 

 widest behind middle, nearly twice as wide and two and a 

 half times as long as prothorax, punctate-striate, intervals 2 and 

 4 a little narrower than the adjacent ones; surface, densely 

 punctate (but much less coarsely than prothorax), punctures more 

 or less laterally confluent ; front spot small, triangular, behind 

 shoulder, widening from stria 7 to margin, hind spot small, 

 square, at a fourth from apex, covering intervals 6-8. In some 

 examples there is a small additional spot on interval 4, a little in 

 advance of the hind spot. All sterna coarsely, ventral surface 

 more finely punctate, pubescent. 



A good deal smaller than C. quadristigma Bates, head and 

 prothorax much narrower, the latter darker in colour and less 

 contracted at extremities, elytral puncturation similar, but 

 yellow spots much smaller. 



Nilgiri Hills, Ouchterlony Valley, 3500 ft., July, "running 

 among beams on the ground"' (//. L. And 'r ewes), 3 ex. 6 $• 

 Bombay: N. Kanara {T. R. 1). Bell), 2 ex. The type (c?).is in 

 my collection. 



Callistomimus venustus, sp. n. (Plate I. fig. 6.) 



. Length 6-0 mm. Width 2*25 mm. 



Black. Mouth-parts (exc. last joint of palpi fuscous), antennal 

 joints 1, 2, and underside of 3, and epipleurse of elytra (exc. at 

 shoulder) testaceous ; head and prothorax blue or blue-green, 

 with red base and side-margins ; elytra violet-blue, suture red 

 over intervals 1 and 2, and for basal third over interval 3 ; two 

 interrupted fascia? on elytra., apical margin, and legs yellow-white 

 (apex of femora, tibiae, and tarsal joints fuscous) ; metasternum 

 and ventral surface (last segment darker) brown. 



Head (about 1 "0 mm. wide) shiny, a little less convex but more 

 pubescent and punctate than in allied species, the usually 

 smooth space on middle of front with one or two coarse punctures, 

 neck smooth, eyes prominent. Prolhorax relatively Hat, rather 

 small, hardly wider than head with eyes, nearly half as wide 

 again as long, sides rounded in front, contracted behind, and 

 sinuate before hind angles, which are acute and project both 

 laterally and a little backwards: transverse impressions, median 

 line, and basal fovea? all well marked: surface closely and con- 

 fluently punctate, and pubescent. Elytra square at shoulders, 

 .nearly parallel, rather flat, twice as wide and three times as long 



