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155. Clinteria auronotata. 



Gvmnetis aiivonotata, Blanch., Liste Cet. Mus. Paris, 1842, p. 16. 

 Clinteria guttifera, Burm.,* Handb. Enf. iii, 1842, p. 300. 

 Clinteria valida, Lansb.,* Xotes Lei/d. Mus. ix, 1887, p. 164. 



Coppery-red, metallic indigo, or nearly black ; opaque above, 

 with the head, legs and lower surface shining; decorated with 

 yellow, orange or vermilion spots, viz., one or two at the lateral 

 margin of the pronotum (often wanting), one upon each meso- 

 sterual epimerou, three (or less) upon each elytron (the first near 

 the middle, the second at the outer edge a little behiud the first, 

 and the third at the apical margin), and one on each side of the 

 pygidium. The sides of the sternum and abdomen are similarly 

 decorated. 



This is one of the largest species of the genus and is rather 

 flattened and very broad across the shoulders. The chfpeus is 

 rather long and parallel-sided, not very deeply notched, and closely 

 punctured. The pronotum is strongly punctured at the front and 

 sides, narrow in front and broad behind, the sides very feebly 

 curved, and the basal lobe moderately long. The eh/tra are 

 strongly punctured in longitudinal lines and two of the dorsal 

 intervals are slightly raised posteriorly. The pygidium is opaque, 

 finely rugose and sometimes slightly setose. The metastemum is 

 coarsely rugose, except in the middle, and the abdomen very 

 sparingly punctured. The sternal process is long, slightly oblique, 

 laterally compressed and rounded at the apex. 



S . The two terminal teeth of the front tibia are very sharp 

 and the third rather feeble and more distant. The abdomen is 

 not channelled. 



2 . The three teeth of the front tibia are nearly equidistant. 



Length 17-20 mm. ; breadth 9-12 mm. 



Bombay : Kanara ; Madras : Nilgiri Hills, Trichinopoli, 

 Bangalore, Kodaikanal. 



Type in the Paris Museum ; that of valida in M. Oberthiir's 

 collection ; co-types of C. guttifera are contained in the Oxford 

 and Geneva Museums. 



The two median spots of each elytron sometimes coalesce, 

 forming an oblique irregular baud, and there is sometimes a 

 marginal yellow line on each side of the pronotum. 



156. Clinteria truncata. 



Clinteria truncata, Arrow,* Ann. Nat. Hist. (7) xix, 1907, p. oo2. 



Black or very dark coppery, velvety and opaque above, with the 

 head, legs and underside shining, and with white or yellow 

 markings, consisting of a narrow line on each side of the protborax, 

 frequently interrupted or absent, a spot upon the mesosternal 

 epimerou, two small spots placed close together behind the middle 

 of each elytron and frequently coalescing, a minute external apical 



