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hairs of a golden orange colour. These are denuded from the 

 clypeus, the frontal carina, the lateral margins, posterior lobe and 

 dorsal cariiife of the prothorax and a smooth elevated lateral rid"-e 

 on each side of the scutellum in its anterior part. Each elytron 

 is ornamented with a large median yellow patch adjoining the 

 suture, a similar one behind it meeting a smaller apical patch, and 

 three small spots in a hne at tlie outer margin. The mesosternal 

 epimera, the pygidium and the sides of the sternum are thickly 

 clothed, and there is a row of patches on each side of the abdomen. 

 The hairs upon the pygidium are long and erect and form a pro- 

 jecting tuft at the apex. 



The body is long, broad at the shoulders and tapering to both 

 extremities, and the whole median part of the back is deeply 

 impressed. The head is bilobed in fi'ont and has a narrow longi- 

 tudinal median carina behind. The sides of the proOiorax are 

 slightly angulated in the middle and strongly converge in front, 

 the hind angles are slightly produced and the basal lobe is strong. 

 There are two straight oblique carinas which meet in the middle of 

 the front margin and enclose a triangular space which is strongly 

 depressed. The scutellum is very long and acutely pointed, and 

 the elytra are very broad at the shoulders and strongly cut away 

 behind them, with the outer margins transversely rugose and the 

 posterior sutural part finely striated. All the uncovered parts of 

 the body above and below are extremely smooth and shining. The 

 sternal process is short and broad. The legs are slender, the j^ront 

 tibice having three spinose teeth. 



The c5" has the abdomen narrowly channelled beneath. 



Length 23 mm. ; hreadtli 11 mm. 



SiKKiM: Darjiling; Assam: Khasi Hills, Manipur; Burma: 

 Karen Hills, 3000 to 4300 ft. 



Type lost. 



Var. mearesi, Westiv. 



This differs from the typical M. penidllata in having the lio-ht 

 markings of a lemon-yellow instead of deep orange, although the 

 shade is not constant. The patches of pubescence are usually 

 rather smaller in this form, especially the median patch of the pro- 

 thorax, in w'hich patch the hind margin is commonly prominent, 

 instead of notched, in the middle. The scutellum, on the contrary, 

 is generally more completelj- covered than in the other form. 



Type in the Oxford Museum. 



9. Macronota albonotata. 



Macronota albonotata, Blanch., Liste Cet. Mus. Paris, 1842, p. 19. 

 Macronota alboguttata, Parry,* Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. v, 1849, p 18'' 

 pi. 18, fig. 3. 



Black, with white markings consisting of two longitudinal lines 

 on the head, a narrow median line upon the prothorax, slightly 

 tapering to the front, a longitudinal line upon the scutellum, two 



