ARGOPISTES. — AEGOPISTOIDES. 



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217. Argopistes nigristriga, sp. nov. 



Body ovate. General colour brown ; head black ; underside 

 black, except the three apical segments of the abdomen and part 

 of the segment in front of tliese, and even they are edged with 

 black ; legs brown; base of the pronotum, and basal border, sides, 

 and sutural margins of the elytra, black ; scutellum also black ; 

 the lateral black stripe on each side is not along the extreme 

 margin, but lines the inner border of the explanate portion. 



Head with vertex finely punctate ; eyes large, interocular space 

 narrow, with some punctures and two prominent pits placed in a 

 transverse line ; clypens triangular, somewhat raised, with a sharp 

 median line. Antennae extending to a certain distance beyond 

 the base of the pronotum ; first segment long and club-shaped, 

 about equal in length to the following three together, second 

 thicker but hardly longer than third, fourth about equal to 

 third; from the fifth the segments are somewhat thickened. 

 Prothorax broader than long, sides straight but oblique, anterior 

 and posterior lateral angles rounded and each having a seta- 

 bearing pore, posterior margin sinuate on each side, and with a 

 median lobe ; surface closely and finely punctate. Scutellum 

 sharply triangular, impunctate. Elytra : the side-margin of the 

 pronotum together with that of the elytron forms one continuous 

 curve on each side ; surface closely and finely punctate, the 

 punctures generally confused, but showing a certain tendency to 

 form longitudinal rows. Underside covered with line brownish 

 hairs, more particularly on the legs ; posterior femora enormously 

 thickened ; apical spines of posterior tibiae sharp. 



Length, 3 mm. ; breadth, 2\ mm. 



Nilgiri Hills (67. F. Hampson). 



Type in the British Museum. Described from seven examples. 



Genus ARGK)PISTOIDES, Jacoby. 

 Aryopistoides, Jac, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, xxxii, 1892, p. 931. 

 Genotype, Aryopistoides septempunctata, Jac. 



Body rounded, convex. Antennae short, widely separated, 

 third segment the longest and more slender, the terminal segments 

 slightly thickened, short. Proihorax very strongly transverse, 

 without any ante-basal furrow, the angles obtuse. Scutellum 

 broad. Elytra confusedly punctate, their epipleura very broad, 

 continued to the apex. Underside : prosternum narrowly elon- 

 gate ; mesosternum subquadrate, broader than long ; anterior 

 coxal cavities open behind ; posterior femora strongly incrassate, 

 the corresponding tibiae deeply sulcate in their apical portion and 

 armed with a robust double-pointed spur; first segment of 

 posterior tarsi as long as the following three segments together; 

 claws appendiculate. 



llange. Burma. 



