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thorax there is a small rounded fuscous spot. Scutellum yellow. 

 The elytra may be described as dark velvety brown, with yel- 

 lowish bands, of which the first, near the base, is somewhat 

 roughly x shaped ; the second triangular, with its apex just in 

 front of- ils base behind- the middle, and its sides slightly 

 concave ; the third is a transverse fascia occupying the apical 

 fifth but without reaching the outer margin. That part of the 

 elytra between the basal margin and the x shaped patch is 

 testaceous in colour and is partly clothed with yellowish pube- 

 scence. The apices are truncate, each- very shortly mucronate 

 at the outer angle. Body underneath with a yellowish pube- 

 scence ; eacli of the last four abdominal segments dark brown 

 and nitid anteriorly. Legs and antennae testaceous, with the 

 hind femora infuscate towards the apex. 



The peculiar marking of this pretty little species will admit 

 of its being easily recognized. I have named it in honour of 

 D.'" Gestro who has already done so much to advance the study 

 of Coleoptera. 



53. Xylotrechus quadripes, Chevr., Mém. Soc. Roy. des Sciences 

 de Liège, vol. XVIII (1863), p. 315; — Dunning, Trans. Ent. 

 Soc. Lond. 1868, p. 126 and fig, — ■ Cacujus coffeophagus, Richter, 

 Proc. Agri-Hort. Soc. Madras 1867. 



Garin Mts. (Gheba): alt. 900-1100 m. Two females. Palon 

 in Pegu one male. The species occurs also in India — Sylhet 

 and Madras — and in Siam; and is of economic importance, in- 

 asmuch as it is injurious to the coffee-plant (vide Dunning , 

 op. supra cit.). Chevrolat described the female. In this sex the 

 front of the head has five nearly parallel and equidistant raised 

 lines or carinae, of which the two intermediate are shorter than 

 the rest and do not extend to the vertex. In the male the front 

 of the head has two elongate, very finely granular and opaque 

 black spots, one on' each side between the median and the outer 

 I'aised lines, and each is bounded by a very narrow and slightly 

 raised line. In other respects, a slight difference in the length 

 of the antennae excepted, the two sexes closely resemble each 

 other. 



