182 CEToxiix.?:. 



little broader and shorter, and the thoracic lobe shorter and 

 blunter. 



160. Clinteria malayensis. 



Clinteria malavensis, Wallace* Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., (3) iv, 

 1868, p. o3l" 



A'elvety black or purplish black, with the clypeus, scutellum, 

 legs and lower surface shining black or deep metallic crimson ; 

 decorated with two minute yellow spots near tlie front angles of 

 the pronotum and two similar ones near the middle, a large patch 

 beyond the middle of each elytron at the outer margin and a small 

 quadrate or lunular one at the apical margin. There may be in 

 addition a minute spot at each basal angle of the pygidium and a 

 double series on each side of the abdomen. 



The shape is short, compact and convex. The head is 

 moderately punctured and not very deeply notched in front. The 

 'pronohim is irregularly punctui*ed and the elytra coarsely punctate- 

 striate. The pygulmm is finely transversely strigose, the meta- 

 .sternum finely rugose and clothed with tawny hairs, and the 

 abdomen sparingly punctured. The sternal 2^''0cess is short, stout 

 and blunt. 



I have not seen a male. 



Length I'd mm.; breadth 8 mm. 



Burma : Teinzo ; Pexaxg ; Malacca. 



Tj/jje in the British Museum. 



This species is exceedingly like C. dvcalis, but a little more 

 stoutly built, the yellow markings are rather reduced and the 

 sculpture of the head and pygidium is not quite the same. 



The type specimen of C. flavonotata, G. & P., the origin of 

 •which is uncertain, is -without the apical elytral spots, which are 

 present in that of C. malayensis and a similar specimen in the 

 Genoa Museum. 



161. Clinteria pantherina. 



Clinteria pantherina, Parry, Trans. Ent. Soc. Land, v, 1848, p. 82, 

 pi. 11, lig. 9. 



Deep opaque chocolate colour, brighter and more reddish upon 

 the elytra and pygidium, with the clypeus, legs and lower surface 

 deep coppery red and shining ; decorated with minute pale spots 

 generally distributed as follows : — four placed rectangularly upon 

 the anterior half of the pronotum, two upon each mesosternal 

 epimeron, a spot common to both elytra immediately behind the 

 scutellum and about nine others upon each, viz., one at the anterior 

 margin, one at the outer margin just behind the shoulder, a pair 

 nlaced transversely behind the middle of the outer margin, a 

 pair just before the posterior margin, two near the sutural margin 

 behuid the middle, and one or two upon the anterior part of the 



