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pubescence mixed grey aud fulvous, but not forming" any definite pattern. 

 Scutellum black, velvety. El\ tra as long as broad, the disc dark, the margins 

 all more or less brownish red; puncturation close, cr.teriform; pubescence 

 black, grey, and fulvous, thicker at the postero-external angles, but not form- 

 ing any definite variegated patterns. Abdomen with the first five segments 

 with a ofolden fieck in the middle of the base of each, bounded on either side 

 by a black velvety patch of pubescence and towards the sides each with a 

 somewhat obscure patch of golden pubescence at the base ; puncturation pretty 

 close and not very fine ; pubescence moderately close, black, grey, and yellow. 

 Under surface iridescent, the posterior margins of the first two or three seg- 

 ments reddish. 



Hab. Ceylon, Kandy (G. E. Bryant). 



Females only obtained. 



RhyncliocheilMS andreivesi, n. sp. 



So very similar to R. aureus F., that the following points will readily dis- 

 tinguish 4;his species. The last joint of the antennae is black, only the 1st and 

 2nd being reddish testaceous; the labrum is bright oranga-red ; the ground- 

 colour of the head and thorax is darker, and the pubescence on the 7th abdo- 

 minal segment is golden; the femora are entirely black, except at the apex ; 

 the metasternum is in great part rufo-testaceous. In size and build, and in 

 the arrangement and colour of the pubescence, the present species agrees 

 with R. aureus. 



Ilab. India, Nilgiri Hills (M. L. Andrewes). 



Feb. 'drd, 1918. 



NOTE ON PHYLLOBIUS CALCARATUS F. 

 BY JAMES EDWAEDS, F.E.S. 



The specimens of Phyllobius cavcaratus fall naturally into three 

 well-marked groups which owe their distinctive appearance mainly to the 

 clothing of the elytra. Group 1 has the elytra irregularly parti -coloured 

 in black patches alternating with patches of green or coppery scales. 

 This is the prevalent form and comprises two distinct categories ; one in 

 which the black parts are actually bare, apparently as the result of 

 abrasion, and the other in which they are clothed with short decumbent 

 hairs similar to those in the striae-punctures. The latter, according to 

 Schilsky, must be called calcarattis var. pyri F. ; but since this is apt to 

 lead to confusion with pyri L. it will be more convenient to refer to it 

 as ab. maculatus. There is, as yet, no definite record of a male of this 

 form ; it is uncertain whether the black spots on the elytra of atrovirens 

 Gy 11., which is said to be based on the male sex, are clothed with short 

 hairs or actually bare. Group 2 has the elytra yellow-green, blue- 



