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rounded in front and strongly contracted behind, and the basal 

 lobe very short, broad and truncated. The loiverswf ace is similarly 

 rugose, except the middle of the abdomen, whicli is coarsely punc- 

 tured and sparingly clothed with short yellow hairs. 



c?. The abdomen is very slightly channelled at the base and the 

 antennal club is a trifle longer than in the $ . 



Length 19 mm. ; hreadth 8*5 mm. 



Madras : Trichinopoli, Kodaikanal. 



Tfpe in M. Oberthiir's collection ; that of flavomacidata in the 

 German Entomological National Museum. 



Genns MACRONOTA. 



Macronota, Hoffmanser/[/, Wiedem. Zool. Mag. I. i. 1817, p. 15 ; G. 



8f P., Mono(jr. 18.'52, p. 44 ; Burm., Handb. Ent. iii. 1842, p. 320; 



Lucord. Gen. Col. iii, 1856, p. 506. 

 Tfeniodera, Burm., op. cit. p. 325. — Type, Macr. monacha, G. & P. 



(Java, &c.). 

 Coilodera, Hope, Grays Zool. Misc. 1831, p. 25 (undescribed). 

 Mecinonota, Kraatz, Deutsche Ent. Zeitschr. 1892, j). 375. — Type, 



Cet. reyia, F. 

 Ixorida, TJiotns. Le Ncdurcdiste, 1880, p. 277. — Type, Macronota 



nioiihoti, Wall. 

 Carolina, id. I. c. — Type, Macr. annce, AVall. (2 of M. malahariensis) . 

 Atfenia, Schoch, Gen. S^- Spec. Cet. 1895, p. 40. — Type, Macr. 



biplagiata, G. & 1*. (Java). 

 Pleuronota, Kraatz, I). E. Z,. 1892, p. 312. — Type, P. octomaculata, 



Kr. (Java). 

 Meliuospila, id., D. E. Z. 1890, p. 277. — Type, Macr. flavomaciilataj 



G. &P. (Java). 

 Bombodes, Westiv., Cabinet of Orient. Entom. 1848, p. 36. — Type, 



Macr. ursns, Westw. 



Type, 31. diardi, G. & P. 



Mange. The Oriental Region. 



Form elongate, with the sides and end of the abdomen distinctly 

 visible from above. Clypens long and generally slightly bilobed in 

 front. Prolhorax narrower than the elytra at the shoulders, with 

 a short posterior lobe not covering the scutellum. Scutellum 

 rather long. Elytron cut away behind the shoulders and distinctly 

 narrowed towards the apices. Pygidium generally prominent. 

 Mesosternnm only slightly prominent between the middle coxpe. 

 Legs slender bnt not long, the front tibiae armed with three 

 (occasionally only one or two) sharp but short teeth. The upper 

 surface is generally covered with a fine bloom which produces a 

 silky or velvety appearance. 



The sexes of Macronota frequently difler from each other to a 

 very remarkable degree, but there is no single extez'ual feature by 

 which they may be distinguished. In several species, e. g., 

 M. A-vittata, crucicoUis and oherfhuri, the colour, pattern and shape 

 are all difi'erent. The form of the prothorax is frequently diflPerent. 

 In most the 6 is distinguished by a close fringe of hairs along the 



