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CETONIINjE. 



Genus GNORIMIDIA. 



Gnorimidia, Lansb., Notes Leijd. Mns. 1887, ix. p. 169. 

 Cirrhospila, Kraatz, Deutsche Eat. Zeitschr. 1890, p. 1!70. 



Type, G. toj/cc, Lansb. 



Range. S. India. 



Form broad and robust, flattened above but scarcely at all 

 depressed in the seutellar region. Head moderately broad, tbe 

 clypeus deflexed, short and rounded in front. Prothorax strongly 

 rounded at the sides, with the basal lobe feeble and truncate. 

 Scutellum not long, rather broad at the base, with the sides nearly 

 straight. Elytra broad and enfolding the sides oi the abdomen, 

 not attenuated behind and very feebly sinnated near the middle 

 of the outer margins. Mesosternum forming a minute tubercle 

 between the middle coxse. Front tibiae sharply tridentate. Middle 

 tibia? armed with a strong spine beyond the middh? of the outer 

 edge. Hind tibiae unarmed. Tarsi slender and antennal club 

 rather long in both sexes. 



The sexes differ little, but the abdomen of the male is longi- 

 tudinally channelled. 



Only a single species is known. 



6. Gnorimidia toyae. 



Gnorimidia toyse, Lansb.,* I. c. 



Cirrhospila flavomaculata, Kraatz,^ Deutsche Eiit. Zeitschr. 1890, 

 p. 279, pi. 2, fig. 14. 



Black and shining, with a broad brick-red stripe upon each 

 elytron extending from the shoulder to the 

 suture just before the apex, and with the 

 following opaque pale yellow markings :- 

 two longitudinal lines upon the head ; the 

 sides of the prothorax. a V-shaped mark 

 upon its disc extending to the front angles. 

 and two adjacent spots at the hind mar 

 gin ; the circ-uaiference of the scutellum, 

 two large spots near the outer margin of 

 each elytron, an intermediate one near the 

 inner margin, a minute common one 

 behind the last, and the po.sterior part of 

 the suture and the apical margin ; three 

 elongate patches iipon the pygidium and 

 a double line of spots on each side of tbe 

 abdomen beneath. 

 The entire upper surface is coarsely rugose and sparsely dotted 

 with minute seta^. The prothorax is transverse, rather convex, 

 with the median part behind very slightly depressed, the sides 



Fig. 11. — Gnorimidia 



tul/CB. 



