122 CEToxiiy.B. 



97. Glycyphana aurocincta, sp. n. 



Velvety-black, with the clypeus, legs and lower surface shining ; 

 the pygidium and the lateral and posterior margins of the pronotum 

 blood-red ; the elytra traversed just beyond the middle by a 

 glistening golden band, very narrowly interrupted at the suture, 

 the front edge forming a nearly straight line, the hinder edge 

 strongly concave. 



The body is depressed in shape and moderately elongate. The 

 head is broad, closely punctured, and deeply notched at the front 

 margin. The pronotum is a little wider than it is long, with the 

 lateral and posterior margins continuously curved, the hind angles 

 obsolete and the base very feebly siuuated in front of the scutellum. 

 The scutellum is rather pointed. The ehjtra are punctate-striate, 

 strongly sinuated behind the shoulders and not spinose at the 

 apical angles. The pii(jklium is minutely striolated transversely, 

 the mctasternum coarsely rugose at the sides, and the abdomen very 

 coarsely punctured. The front tilia is armed with three acute 

 teeth. 



I have not seen the male. 



Length 12-13 ram. ; breadth G-o mm. 



Bhutan : Maria Basti (L. Durel). 



Type in the British Museum ; co-types in coll. E, Oberthiir. 



M. Oberthiir has kindly presented the type to the J^ational 

 Collection. 



98. Glycyphana catena, sp. u. 



"Velvety-black, with the clypeus, legs and lower surface shining, 

 the lower surface very minutely and thinly setose ; the pygidium 

 (e.\cept a central black spot) and the latera,l 

 and posterior margins of the pronotum 

 blood-red ; the elytra traversed at the middle 

 by a chain of six orange spots, those at the 

 outer edges large, the rest small. The meta- 

 sternum, bind coxae, and 2nd, 3rd and 4th 

 ventral segments are decorated with large 

 white patches at the sides. 



The body is long, narrow and depressed. 



The head is short, the chjpeus broadly bilobed 



Fig. 29. and closely punctured. The jj>-o/7(orrt.r is 



Glycyphana catena. transverse, with its anterior part drawn into 



a sharp point as seen from behind. The 



lateral and basal margins are strongly and continuously curved, 



the hind angles obsolete and the base very gently excised before 



the scutellum. The scutellum is very long and narrow ; the elytra 



are striated, tlie sides very deeply sinuated behind the shoulders 



and the apical angles not spinose. The pygidium is minutely 



punctured, the mctasternum smooth in the middle and coarsely 



