1922.] K. G. Blair: Fauna of Barknda I. 297 



otum being distinctly rounded instead of subrectangular, in the 

 length of the tibial spurs of the posterior pair of legs, and in the 

 number of oblique ridges on the posterior tibiae and tarsi. In 

 M. dejectiva there are 5 of these ridges on the tibiae and 4. 3, 

 and 2, respectively, on the first three tarsal joints; while the 

 inner tibial spur is only about half as long as the 1st tarsal joint 

 and about twice as long as the outer spur. 



Family MELOIDAE. 



Mylabris pustulata Thunb. 



Thunberg, Disseyt. Nov. Ins. Spec, VI, 1791, p. 113, fig. 13. 

 ,1/. httmeralis Walk 



3 ex., 13-18'iv 14 (N. Annandale); 1 ex., 3-19/viirio, (F H. 

 Gravely); 2! ex., I7"ix-ig (E. Bruneiti); 1 ex., Oct. 1920 (N. An- 

 nandale}; 9 ex., 25V11— 4*viii - i7 (N. Annandale). 



A common species in S. India and Ceylon. 



Sybaris tcstaceus F. 

 Fabricius, Ent. Syst. I, 2, 1792, p. 85. 

 1 ex., i6ix - i9 (E. Brunctli). 



Borchmann, in Junk's Colcopl. Catal. pars 69, 1917, retains this 

 species in Lytta, but it and the closely allied L. nigrifinis Walk. 

 (=L. usta Fairm.) both have the upper branch of the claws pecti- 

 nate, and must be removed to Sybaris. 



