44 CETOxiiN.i:. 



decorated with yellow or orange pubescent patches as follows : — 

 two longitudinal lines on the head ; a deeply impressed line at the 

 middle of the pronotum, not extending to the front or hind margin, 

 and a similar one on each side reacliing the front, but not the hind, 

 margin ; a minute stripe on each side of tlie apex of the scutellum ; 

 a spot at the inner edge of each elytron near the middle of the 

 suture, a similar one behind it, and three short transverse bars at 

 the outer edge alternating with the spots. There are also a large 

 patch upon the pygidium and transverse bars at the sides of the 

 sternum and abdomen, those of the abdomen being visible upon 

 both the upper and lower surfaces. 



The body is boat-shaped, narrowing greatly both in front and 

 behind, deeply channelled along the middle line of the back and 

 very smooth above and beneath. The pj/f/idium is almost horizontal, 

 finely rugose, and thickly clothed witli long hairs, and there are 

 short erect setse upon the pale lines and spots. The Jiead is 

 strongly punctured, except upon a posterior longitudinal keel, and 

 the ch/jyeus is bilobed. The pronotum is very smooth and shining, 

 except in the neighbourhood of the pale lines, where it is closely 

 punctured, the sides are neai'ly straight and very divergent towards 

 the base, which is strongly lobed in the middle, and the hind 

 angles are a little produced. The scutelbnn is smooth and very 

 sharp-pointed. The elytra have a few striae upon the posterior 

 half, adjoining the suture, they are conrsely striolated transversely 

 at the sides, where they are largely cutaway behind the shoulders, 

 strongly serrated ])Osteriorly and acutely produced at the apical 

 angles. The metasternum and abdomen are slightly punctured at 

 the sides and very smooth in the middle, and the sternal process 

 is rounded and prominent. The front tihice are armed with three 

 acute oblique teeth, but the uppermost one is sometimes hardly 

 traceable in the male. The four posterior tarsi are rather thick. 



The two sexes are almost alike, but the front tibite of the 

 male are a little more feebly toothed, the hind tibia; bear a 

 conspicuous fringe of yellow hairs at the inner edge and the hind 

 tarsi are rather longer. 



Lenrjth 2^-2S mm. ; breadth 11-12 mm. 



Tenasserim ; Malay Peninsula ; Bokneo; Java; Sumatba. 



I have seen two specimens, said to have been taken in Ceylon, 

 of a variety of this species iu which the elytra are black and the 

 prothorax purple-black. 



8. Macronota peuicillata. 



Coilodera peuicillata, Hope, Cl ray's Zool. Misc. ISol. p. 24. 

 Macronota peuicillata. Burm., Jlandh. iii, 1842, p. 321. 

 MaciMiiota dives, (r. cV P., Monoyr. 183."5, p. 314, pi. 01, lijj. (5. 

 I'ar. Macronota uiearesi, Westw.* Arcana Ent. i, 1842, p. 104, pi. 28, 

 fig. 3. 



Smooth shining black, with the head and prothorax deep 

 purple, and decorated above and beneath with decumbent silky 



