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margin) and a very large bright yellow patcli upon eacli elytrou, 

 leaving only a narrow black border all round, the external border 

 extremely fine. The inner side of each yellow patch is slightly 

 produced both in front and belaud. The terminal segment of the 

 abdomen is deep red. 



The chjpeus is quadrate and straight in front, with the angles 

 broadly rounded, the surface is indistinctly punctured and the 

 whole central part gently raised. The pronotnui is smooth, with 

 very fine scattered punctures, and its sides are gently siiiuated 

 ami bordered with striic which are scarcely abbreviated behind. 

 Tlie scuteUum is unpunctured, and the elytra have each a strongly 

 impressed series of punctures near the suture and several fainter 

 series upon the disc. The pifcjidlum is finely transvei'sely strigose, 

 the iiietasternam has very large punctures at the sides, and each 

 ventral segment has a row of punctures at the middle. 



Lencjtli lo~19 mm.; breadth 7-9 mm. 



Bombay : Bombay, Kanara. 



Tyjpe in the British Museum. 



4.J. Diceros gracilis. 



Dicevos gracilis, Janson, The Entomologist, vol. xlii, 1009, p. 22o. 



Shining black, with the pygidium, last ventral segment and 

 lateral margins of the prothorax frequently a very deep blood-red, 

 the red thoracic margin being broadly produced inwards just 

 before the base. Each elytron is decorated with a very pale 

 yellow rectangular median patch, not 

 quite twice as long as it is broad, and 

 separated from the outer edge by an 

 extremely fine, and from the inner edge 

 by a moderately broad, black line. 



This is a very small species of the 

 usual elongate shape, but rather strongly 

 jninctured above. The head is closely 

 puncturedand thech/peus simple, rounded, 

 and reflexed at the margin. 'Yhe jn-ouotum 

 is very convex and distinctly punctured 

 all over, with a series of large punctures 

 Fig. IS.— JJiWro.'i gracilis, closely collected in a transverse linear 

 depression on each side before the base ; 

 the sides are gently curved and finely margined and the hind 

 angles prominent. The scutellum is short and feebly punctured, 

 and the elytra are evenly punctured in regular rows which do not 

 quite reach the extremity ; the apices are a little rugose. The 

 jvjgidluni is finely transversely strigose, the met((sternuya very 

 coarsely and sparsely punctured at the sides and smooth in the 

 middle, and the abdomen coarsely punctured at the sides and 

 (in the $ ) more finely and closely in the middle. 



