244 MR. H. E. ANDREWES OX THE 



Var. insularis, nov. 



Mr. Guy Babault has kindly sent me an example (there being 

 others I understand in his collection) which comes from Java, 

 which has a narrow black longitudinal line behind the shoulder, 

 and in which the two parts of the hind fascia are quite detached 

 from the reddish area in front, so that they appear as transverse 

 whitish spots on a blue-black ground, which covers the apical 

 half of the elytra. In the Brussels Museum there are also three 

 examples of this form labelled " Semarang (Drescher) " * ; in these 

 the hind fascia is less widely separated from the red area in 

 front. 



Callistomimus dux, sp. n. (Plate I. fig. 10.) 



Length 7'0 mm. Width 2'60 mm. 



Black. Head dark blue, prothorax (above and beneath) dull 

 red with faint purplish reflections, basal two-fifths of elytra brick- 

 red, the coloured area bulging in the middle and reaching to half- 

 way between base and apex, two transverse fascia? (front one very 

 short, submarginal) and extreme apex yellow-white, joint 1 of 

 antenna? (rest wanting) and legs (exc. apex of femora) testaceous, 

 margin of elytra (exc. just below shoulders; infuscate. 



Head (2*40 mm. wide) convex, shiny, very coarsely punctate; 

 vertex, middle of front (exc. for one or two punctures), and 

 clypeus smooth, eyes prominent. Prothorax (2 - 60 mm. wide) 

 convex, very transverse, sides strongly rounded, much contracted 

 at extremities, but more so behind than in front, hind angles in 

 the form of a small light- angled tooth, a little in front of 

 apparent base; median line faint, basal fovea? round and deep, 

 surface coarsely and confluently punctate. Elytra oval, flat, 

 punctate-stria te, intervals nearly flat, finely punctate, (presumably) 

 pubescent ; front fascia from stria 5 to 8, merging in colour 

 of basal area, hind one moderately broad, oblique, from stria 1 

 to 9. Underside moderately and rather coarsely punctate, more 

 finely on ventral surface. 



Burma: Prome (G. Q. Corbett), 1 ex. <5 . Type in my collection. 



The species is so widely different from all others known to me 

 that I have described it with a view to making my note on the 

 Oriental species of the genus as complete as possible. The unique 

 example, however, is defective, especially in regard to the antenna?, 

 tarsi, and buccal organs. 



Callistomimus nair, Maindr., var. nilgirinus, nov. 



I have in my collection an example of Maindron's species, 

 which I have had the opportunity of comparing with a typical 

 specimen kindly sent to me for examination by Mr. Guy Babault. 

 My specimen agrees almost exactly with Maindron's, which came 

 from Mahe on the Malabar Coast : the only difference I detect is 

 in the elytral fascia?, which are narrower, the hind one being also 



* In reply to an enquiry of mine, Commandant Dupuis writes : " Etique te d'wn 

 envoi recu du Mus6e de Sarawak (Borneo), sans autre precision.; mais les inseetes 

 provenaierit tous, je crois, de recoltes i'aites dans la region." 



