Othniidae 



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O. delusus Pasc. 



ture; prothorax with three or four very minute teeth at the side, 

 and a shallow transverse impression near the base; scutellum long 

 and narrow ; elytra with three 

 black, toothed bands, the first 

 often interrupted or replaced 

 by a few spots; a patch of 

 I the same colour, also sometimes 

 rV^M broken up into spots, at the 

 base near the scutellum; an- 

 T^^J tennae and legs testaceous- 

 ^^Pl yellow, more or less clouded 

 with brown; body beneath 

 ferruginvus, slightly tomentose. 

 Length 1^ g 2 lines. 

 0. (Elacatis) lynceus Pasc. Ann. a. 

 Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) VIII, 1871, p. 346. 

 — E. pallide testacea, supra pilosula, 

 elytris nigrofasciatis et maculatis; capite 

 prothoraceque fuscescentibus, hoc capite 

 manifeste angustiore, lateribus haud den- 

 ticulato, angulis posticis rotundatis; 



elytris prothorace latioribus, sat breviusculis, postice gradatim 

 angustioribus ; corpore infra castaneo; pedibus antennisque, clava 

 nigra excepta, sublutescentibus ; oculis valde prominulis. Long. 

 1^ 2 lii^- Hab. Ceylon, 



0. (Elacatis) laticollis Pasc. 1. c. p. 347. — E. rufo-testacea,. 

 fusco-variegata, supra pilosula; oculis minus prominulis; antennis 

 articulis tertio ad octavum gradatim brevioribus, clava f uscescente ; 

 prothorace sat fortiter transverso, lateribus subparallelis, angulis 

 posticis obliquis; elytris prothorace haud latioribus, postice gra- 

 datium angustioribus, pallide fuscis, maculis rufo-testaceis, non- 

 nullis indeterminatis, notatis; corpore infra f uscescente; pedibus 

 flavo-testaceis ; femoribus in medio tibiisque fuscis. Long. 3 lin. 

 Hab. Batchian. 



0. (El.) ocularis Lewis, Ent. Monthly Mag. XXVII, 1891, 

 p. 248; Ann. a. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) XV, 1895, p. 276. - Angustata, 

 subparallela, nigra, griseo-pubescens, punctata, subnitida; an- 

 tennis nigris, geniculis tarsisque ferrugineis; fronte inaequali, 

 oculis prominentibus ; thorace undique subacellato-punctato, utrin- 

 que 4-denticulato; elytris punctatis maculis plumiris irroratis lu- 

 teis. Long 3V4 — 4 mm. 



Narrow, rather parallel, black, clothed with griseous pubes- 

 cence, antennae black, in two exemples piceous, but in all con- 

 colorous, Ist joint robust, 2nd similar in shape but smaller, 3rd 

 longer and less stout, 4th to 8th moniliform, 9th and 10 th trans- 

 verse and anteriorly truncate, llth circular in outline, the last 

 three form a loose club ; head rather rugosely and thickly punctate, 

 and with the thorax slightly aeneous, the eyes are very prominent, 



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