MACRONOTA. 55 



Tupe in the British Museiiin, cotype iu coll. H. E Andrewes. 



It is probable that the un known male diifers considerably from 

 the female above described. The light markings are no doubt 

 brighter in colour and more sharply defined and some difference in 

 shape may also be expected. 



21. Macronota crucicoUis. 



Taeniodera crucicollis, Lansb., Notes Leijd. Mas. ix, 1887, p. 165. 

 Macronota flavosparsa, Watcrh.* vars. 1 & 2, Ann, Nat. Hist. (G) 

 i, 1888, p. 262 (n. syn.). 



The male is silky black ornamented with scattered grey markings 

 and witli the elytra occasionally partly red ; the female is very 

 opaque, with the elytra brick-red and the whole upper surface 

 covered with a buff-coloured earthy clothing, except the head, upon 

 which there are two longitudinal white lines. 



This is a rather small species of moderately elongate shape. 

 The eyes are very prominent and the clypeus much dilated 

 anteriorly and feebly emarginate. The protlwrnx is about as broad 

 as it is long, with the sides parallel behind, the hind angles very 

 obtuse and the posterior lobe feeble. 



(S . The antenual club is a little longer in the male than in the 

 female, but the abdomen is not grooved beneath. The grey 

 markings consist of two longitudinal lines upon the head ; a 

 lateral line at each side of the prothorax extending from near the 

 hind angle to beyond the middle, a pair of spots near tlie middle 

 of the base and a V-shaped mark, sometimes open behind, ex- 

 tending from the front margin to beyond the middle of the disc ; 

 the anterior half of the scntellum and the mesosternal epimera ; 

 an iri-egular sutural patch at the middle of the elytra, a common 

 CC-shaped mark at their apices, and rather indefinite lateral 

 markings ; the base and middle of the pygidium, and two lines of 

 large spots on each side of the abdomen beneath. 



The female is almost uniformly buff-coloured, but may exhibit 

 a pair of indistinct dark spots at the elytral suture, and the earthy 

 covering of the pygidium is sometimes divided into three masses. 



The original descriptions of the above references apply to the 

 male alone. 



Length 14 5-17 mm. ; breadth 7'8 mm. 



jMadras : Anairaalai Hills, Manaar, Trichinopoli. 



Type in coll. R. Oberthiir : type of Jtavosparsa in the British 

 Museum. 



Mr. H. E. Andrewes has received considerable numbers of both 

 sexes taken simultaneously. 



22. Macronota oberthuri. 



Toeniodera oberthm-i, Lansb.* Notes Leyd. Mus. ix, 1887, p. 167. 

 (?) Tieniodera humilig, Lansb.*, I. c. p. 166 (n. syn.). 



The form and colouring of this species are almost as in 



