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bluntly bidentate in front. The pronotum is rather evenly and 

 not closely punctured, with the sides gently curved, the hind 

 angles completely rounded off, and the base abruptly emarginate. 

 The scutellum is bluntly pointed, and the elytra are decorated with 

 rows of rather coarse punctures. The pygidium is finely trans- 

 versely strigose, the metastemum rugose at the sides, and the 

 abdomen scantily punctured. 



S . The spurs of the hind tibise are sharper than in the 5> . 



Le^igili 14-16 mm. ; breadth 7-8 mm. 



United Peotinces : Dehra Dun; Bengal: Pusa ; Assam: 

 Silhet; Burma: Momeit. 



Type lost. 



The coloration above described is that of the typical phase. 

 The following varieties also occur : — 



Var. a. 



Entirely brick-red, with two large green patches at the middle 

 of the pronotum and the white markings as usual. 



Var. b. bivittata, Burm. 



Deep green or black, with longitudinal brick-red vittse, viz., 

 a median one upon the pronotum, often continued upon the 

 scutellum, a short one in each posterior angle of the pronotum, 

 and one extending from shoulder to apex of each elytron, but 

 often interrupted in the middle. There are also white markings 

 as usual. 



Hab. uncertain. 



Type in Oxford Museum. 



Var. c. 



Entirely black, with the usual white markings. 

 Bengal : Pusa, Rungpur ; Assam : Helem. 



The typical phase of this species is deceptively like 0. versicolor, 

 var. a, but the lobes of the clypeus are much less sharply pointed 

 and the scutellum is not black, as in that species. 



Mr. Maxwell Lefroy reports that tliis beetle feeds upon the 

 pollen of cotton-flowers, and is also found upon rice, jute, 

 sugar-cane, and other crops. 



147. Oxycetonia andrewesi. 



Glycyphana andrewesi, Janson, Trans. Ent. Soc. Land. 1901, p. 182. 



Deep, rather dull, green above and below, generally opaque on 

 the pronotum, scutellum, elytra and pygidium ; the posterior 

 angles of the first, and an oblique stripe occupying the whole 

 central part of each elytron, dull red (these red marks sometimes 

 nearly or entirely absent), and with minute white spots distributed 

 as follows (but some of them frequently wanting) : — a pair placed 

 transversely at the middle of the pronotum and a second pair 

 anterior to it, a spot at the apex of the scutellum, one at the 

 middle of each elytron, close to the inner margin, and two others 



