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elevatioiie loDcritudiimli dorsuli (ni marginem aiiticum ni basalem attiujrente), fascia 

 transversa irregulari lateral! arcum iiupressum autice marginaiite, iufra latiore, in 

 medio lateris versus auticum dilatata, cum fascia dorsali eoufluente, macula arcuata 

 pone arcum impressum sita, uigris. Scutellum triaugulare, dense ttavo-inibesceus. 

 Elytra j>rotliorace non latiora, retrorsum parnm augnstata, singulo apice truncato, 

 angnlis levissime deutatis. dcusissimetransverse ruguloso-punctata, nigro-pubescentia, 

 siguaturis flavis ornata: macula magna liumerali, versus sutuiam angulata fasciam 

 brevem humcralem nigram iucludente, a scutello et sntura fascia angulifonni nigra 

 separata, liiscia postbasali transversa, in disco utriusque elytri augusta et recta, ad 

 marginem lateralem usque ad medium descendente, juxta suturam (in sutnra ipsa 

 interrujjta) valde versus scutellum, minus versus posticum dilatata, his partibus 

 dilatatis utrinscjue elytri simul sumtis macnlam fere rliomboidalcni i'urniantibus, 

 fascia valde arcnata ab quarta parte postica suturae trans medium disci asceudente, 

 liinc versus latera recnrreute marginem lateralem in tertia parte apicali taugente, in 

 disco latiore, fascia anteajncali, in sutnra non interrupta, parnm arcuata, in sutnra et 

 margiue laterali cum arcu flavo jiostmediano conuexa, versus latera angustata ; apice 

 flavo-pnbescente. 



Corpus infra flavo-pnbescens, sutaris, metasterni medio, segmento ultimo abdo- 

 minali fere nigris. Pedes rnfo-ocliracei, femorum parte incrassata fulva, sat sjiursim 

 fla vo-pubescentes . 



Long. 21 mm., elytr. 14, lat. .j^. 



Clytomuras pikipun Thorns., which I have uot seen, must be a similarly 

 coloured species with black legs ; but according to Thomson's description (8yst. 

 Ceramh., p. 190) the head of his species has four spots, and the prothorax is rough 

 only in the middle of the base, while it is rugose all over in the new insect : 

 of the elytra Thomson says nothing but : ehjtvd maculis 8 angularihus autjiexmsin. 



Hah. Siam. 



It'. Acrocyrta reticulata sp. nov. 

 A. nigra. Caput sparsim griseo-jjubescens, minute dense ruguloso-graunlatnm ; 

 frons plauata. minuta carina mediana instructa. Antennae basi (articulis 1" — 2" 

 totis) rufae, versus apicem snbuigrae, sparsim, apice densins, albo-tomentosae ; 

 scapo crasso, dense iiunctulato, parum arcuato ; articulo tertio quarto et qninto 

 simul snmptis vix breviore, 8° — 10° brevibus, aequalilnis, tertio et quarto apice 

 tenuiter spinosis. Prothorax fere subglobosus, lateribus aequabiliter rotundatns, 

 basi constrictns, sat fortiter reticulatus, basi utriu(|ue macula dense niveo-pilosa 

 signatus. Scutellum album. Elytra parallela, apice siugnlatim parum olilique 

 truncata, intus et extns breviter spinosa ; dense minutissime punctulata, nigro- 

 tomentosa, duabus fasciis transversis niveis ornata, prima signatura postbasali 

 margines externos baud attingentc in utrisque elytris jiarum arcuata sagittiformi, 

 secunda etiam angiista, in sutura latiore quam ad margines externos, fere recta, 

 postmediana. 



Meso- et metastemum abdominisque segraenta l)asalia macula laterali nivea 

 notata. Pedes nigro-rubri, autici nt omnes tarsi rufi. 



Long. 5 mm., elytr. 3^, lat. I. 



Antennae extending a little beyond the middle of the elytra, rufous, with the 

 tip of third to tenth joints becoming more and more blackish. Prothorax slightly 

 longer than broad, narrower at the base than at the apex ; the basal spot on each 

 side of a snowy white inibescence, transverse, ending above the coxal cavities. The 



