ORIENTAL SPECIES OF CALLISTOMIMUS. 248 



specimen (type) the tibiae and tarsi are fuscous, in the two $ $ 

 specimens they are yellow- white. 



Head (090 mm. wide) shiny, convex, slightly pubescent, 

 coarsely punctate at sides and back, vertex and middle of front 

 smooth and polished, eyes moderately prominent, maxillae a little 

 longer than mandibles. Prothorax narrow, just wider than head, 

 not much wider than long, sides rounded in front, strongly 

 contracted behind, sinuate just before hind angles, which are 

 right ; surface closely and coarsely punctate, pubescent. Elytra 

 about half as wide again as prothorax, square at shoulder, widest 

 at about middle, punctate-striate, intervals rather convex, the 

 whole surface finely aciculate-punctate, dull viewed from above, 

 but a little shiny when viewed sideways ; the red scutellary patch 

 extending half-way to apex, bounded on each side at base by 

 stria 2, but tapering behind ; the front white spot, at a fourth 

 from base, extends from interval 4 to margin (it is rounded on 

 intervals 5-7, contracted on 8. and expanded again on 9) ; the 

 hind spot, also rounded but a little larger, at a. fourth from apex, 

 covers intervals 5-7 : the two remaining spots are minute, one 

 on interval 3 just behind the end of the scutellary patch, the other 

 at extreme apex. Underside sparsely, ventral surface (exc. at 

 sides) more strongly punctate and pubescent. 



India : Central Provinces, Mandla, district, Chiriadangra, 

 Nerbudda bank, 7.xii.l916 (E. A. UAbreu), 1 ex. 6 (type). 

 U.P. : Sitapur, July 1917 (H. G. Champion), 1 ex. $ (defective) 

 Bihar : Pusa, 1 ex. 2 — Agric. Res. Inst. Pusa. Mr. D'Abreu 

 has kindly allowed me to keep the type in my collection. 



Callistomimus modestus Schaum. 



Callistomimus amabilis Redt. (in litt.) Reis. Novar. ii. 18G7, 

 Col. 20. 



The species was described from Hongkong, and I have not seen 

 the type; there seems to be no doubt regarding the identification, 

 and, as it is probably the best known species in the genus, I think 

 it unnecessary to prepare a fresh description. 



The name amabilis was introduced by Redtenbacher, who 

 attributed it to Chaudoir; the latter mentions the name when 

 describing the genus, but attributes it to Redtenbacher. I 

 cannot find that either author published a description, and it 

 seems a pity that it should have got into circulation. 



Var. humeraUs, nov. 



Schaum gives no hint of a dark spot on the shoulder, but B.»tes 

 refers to a small black shoulder-spot on some of the examples 

 taken by Mr. Fea in Burma, one of which is in my collection; 

 the specimen described by Fairmaire from Tonkin is similarly 

 marked. A specimen in the Paris Museum, also from Tonkin, 

 another from Bengal — Sarda (F. W. Champion), and other Indian 

 examples in the British Museum, all have this spot more fully 

 developed, and I think the form is worthy of a name. 



