GLTCOSIA. 131 



Length 20 mm. ; hreadih lO'o mm. 

 Andaman Is. ; (?) Buema : Kangoon. 

 Type in the British Museum. 



A specimen in the Indian Museum is labelled ' Eangoon," 

 but perhaps incorrectly. 



109. Glycosia luctifera. 



Glycypliana luctifera, Fail m.,* Ann, Soc. Ent. France, 1878, p. 107, 



pL3,fig.7. 

 Glycosia louisae, Fairm.,* Bull. Soc. Ent. Irance, 1888, p. 35. 



Velvety-black, with the head, legs, and lower surface shining 

 black, the femora and tibiae fringed with long golden hairs and 

 the lower surface very thinly clothed with setae. The lateral 

 margins of the prothorax, the mesosternal epimera and two spots 

 upon the pjgidium are deep blood-red, and there are markings of 

 white or pale yellow, subject to great reduction, but consisting 

 typically of two spots on the vertex of the head, a circle of from 

 eight to twelve upon the pronotum, two or thi'ee in each posterior 

 angle, a longitudinal median line continued upon the scutellum, a 

 lateral patch beyond the middle of each elytron, with a minute spot 

 close to its inner edge, three spots in a triangle at the apex 

 of each and an irregular swarm of minute spots extending to the 

 shoulder. There are also two or four pale spots placed trans- 

 versely upon the pygidium and two rows on each side of the body 

 beneath. 



The body is depressed, rather elongate, and only slightly nar- 

 rowed behind. The clypeus is strongly punctured and rather 

 deeply notched in front. The pronotum is short, much narrowed 

 in front, broad at the base and deeply and narrowly emarginate 

 before the scutellum. The elytra are punctate-striate, deeply 

 sinuated behind the shoulders and spinose at the apical angles. 

 The pycjidium is a little punctured, the metasiemum rugose, and 

 the abdomen almost smooth. The sternal process is rounded and 

 prominent and directed obliquely forward. The front tibia is 

 armed with three sharp teeth. 



<5 . The uppermost tooth of the front tibia is minute and 

 distant from the other two, the hind tibia bears a thick fringe at 

 the inner edge and the spurs are sharp-pointed. 



Length 19-23 mm.; breadth 10-12*5 mm. 



Bhutan ; Sikkim : Karsiang ; W. China : Yunnan, Su-Tchuen, 

 Tsekou. 



Type in coll. E. Oberthiir ; also that of louisce. 



In the type form from Central China the red markings described 

 above are absent. The var. louisce possesses both these and the 

 pale marks enumerated. In the only two Indian examples I have 

 seen the red markings are present, but the white pattern is 

 restricted on the upper surface to the posterior half of the 



elytra. 

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