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central part black — the surface ornamented with pale markings 

 which are bright yellow in the male and dull yellow^ in the female. 



It is a large species, of rather narrow elongate shape, and 

 strougly sulcate along the middle line above. The chjpeus is 

 distinctly notched in front, the proUiorax relatively small and 

 rather transverse, and the elytra are striated near the suture, 

 rugose at the sides and apices, with the lateral margins strongly 

 cut away behind the shonlders. The i^ygidium is rugose and, 

 like the sides of the body beneath, thinly clothed with tawny 

 hair. The club of tlie antenna is very short. 



S ' The upper surface is opaque, with bright orange or yellow 

 markings arranged as follows : — two longitudinal lines upon the 

 head, four upon the prothorax, of which the two internal ones 

 are complete and rather farther apart at the front than at the 

 hind margin, the two outer ones short and directed inwards 

 from the lateral angulation, a common spot at the middle of the 

 elytral suture and a lateral one on each side behind the shoulder 

 There are also one or three spots upon the pygidium and 

 narrow bars at the sides of the ventral segments. The prothorax 

 is punctured and finely setose, with its sides parallel behind 

 and the basal lobe moderately strong. 



$ . The markings are like those of the male, but less bright, 

 and in addition to the common elytral spot the greater part of 

 the surface of the elytra (except the longitudinal costoe) is 

 irregularly sprinkled with yellow. It is shining, elongate, moder- 

 ately broad at the shoulders, and rather depressed above, with a 

 well-raised smooth costa upon each elytron. The prothorax is 

 very rugose except at the basal margin, deeply impressed behind 

 and moderately lobed, with the sides strong!}^ angulated before 

 the middle and parallel behind. 



Length 18-22 mm. ; breadth 8-10'5 mm. 



Madras: Madura, Shembaganur, Mauaar, Anaimalai Hills. 



Type in the British Museum ; that of madurensis in coll. 

 Moser, 



27. Macronota indica. 



Tajniodera iudica, Janson* The Entomologist, vol. xlii, 1909, p. 226. 



Black, velvety above, thinly clothed with minute golden yellow 

 setae and decorated with the following yellow or whitish 

 markings : — two lines extending the whole length of tlie head ; 

 a median Y-shaped line extending from the front to the hind 

 margin of the pronotum, a little dilated angularly near the base, 

 and a short latei'al line on each side running obliquely inwards 

 from a little before the middle ; the entire mesosternal epimera 

 and a broad line along the scutellum ; the part of the elytra 

 adjoining the apex of the latter, a common sutural patch behind 

 it, a subhumeral and two lateral spots upon each and a common 

 X-shaped mark at the apex. A broad median line upon th 



