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and rather strone;ly lobed behind, and the sides are strongly 

 angulated near the middle and nearly parallel behind. The 

 scutellum and elytra have a silky bloom, and the latter are strongly 

 sinuated at the sides and taper considerably towards the extremities. 

 The costse are not strong. The pygidium is rugose and setose and 

 the mesosternum is rather produced but not acuminate. 



In the S the hind tibiae have a thick fringe of yellow hairs 

 along the inner edge, the abdomen is longitudinally grooved and 

 upon the fourth segment a tuft of long hairs occurs in the groove. 

 The depressed part of the prothorax is opaque in this sex. 



The $ has the prothorax uniformly shining and its sides slightly 

 converging towards the base. 



Length 18-20 mm. ; hreadth 9-9'5 mm. 



Burma : Kachin Hills, Karen Hills. 



Type in the Genoa Museum. 



17. Macronota nigricoUis. 



Atsenia nigricollis, Janson, Cist. Ent. \\, 1881, p. 604. 



Deep bronze, with the elytra bi'ight yellow, lightly suffused with 

 metallic green, the apical part and a few slight vittse black, and 

 with the apex of the scutellum, the adjoiuing margins of the 

 elytra, the anterior part of the suture and three adjacent spots at 

 its middle, the margins of the mesosternal epimera aud four narrow 

 transverse lines on each side of the abdomen white. 



The form is rather short and stout ; the head thickly punctured 

 and deeply notched in front, with a strong carina behind. The 

 prothorax is rather broader than long, thickly punctured, de- 

 pressed behind, and with a well-developed posterior lobe. The 

 sides are straight and slightly converging behind and abruptly but 

 obtusely angulated before the middle. The elytra are strongly 

 sinuated at the sides behind the shoulders and narrowed towards 

 the apices and the costae are not very prominent. The antennal 

 club is very short in both sexes. 



The prothorax of the male is velvety, the hind tibiae have a long 

 fringe of golden hairs towards their extremities, and the hind tarsi 

 are considerably longer than those of the female. The abdomen 

 has a narrow longitudinal channel. 



In the female the prothorax is rather shining, more transverse, 

 and more deeply impressed behind. 



Length 15-16'5 mm. ; hreadth 7-8 mm. 



Assam : Naga Hills, Patkai Hills, Jaintia Hills ; Buema : Euby 

 Mines; Tonkin. 



Type in coll. O. E. Janson. 



18. Macronota flavofasciata. 



Carolina flavofasciata, Moser, Berl. E7it. Zeitschr. 1901, p. 527. 



Velvety black, with a transverse band across the elytra, the 



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