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disc. There are also one or more spots at each lateral margin of 

 the pvgidium and a single or double series on each side of the 

 sternum and abdomen. 



The form is compact, convex, and slightly tapering from the 

 shoulders to the apex. The head is densely punctured and its 

 front margin feebly bilobed. ThQ proihomx is moderately strongly 

 and uniformly punctured, strongly narrowed in front and furnished 

 with a rather narrow lobe behind. The ehjtra are rather coarsely 

 punetate-striate, and the pygicUum and the sides of the meta- 

 stenium and abdomen are slightly rugose and hairy. The sternal 

 j^rocess is short and conical and points obliqui^ly downward. The 

 front tibia is rather broad and armed with three sharp teeth. 



d" . The abdomen is not arched or channelled. 



Lentjth 13-14 mm. ; breadth 7-8 mm. 



Cetlon : Peradeniya. 



I'yjje in coll. O. E. Janson. 



162. Clinteria chloronota. 



Clinteria chloronota, Blanch., Cat. Coll. Ent. Paris, 1850, p. 33. 

 Var. Clinteria pumila, V. d. Poll (nee Swartz), Notes Leyd. Mus. 

 xiii, 1891, p. 184. 



Deep chocolate colour, olive-green or black, opaque above, 

 with the head, legs and lower surface shining and metallic and, 

 together with the pygidium, more or less clothed with greyish set*. 

 The sides of the pronotum are narrowly bordered with white, 

 there is a pair of spots at the middle of the disc and sometimes 

 an anterior pair placed a little farther apart ; the elytra are 

 decorated with a minute common spot immediately behind the 

 scutellum and about ten others upon each, the lateral and apical 

 ones often larger than the rest and sometimes uniting together. 

 The first spot on each elytron is closely adjacent to the thoracic 

 lobe. The pygidium has an incomplete white border, which 

 frequently breaks up into two antei'ior and two lateral spots, 

 there are large patches at the sides of the sternum and usually a 

 double row (sometimes coalescing) at the sides of the abdomen. 



It is compact in shape and not much narrowed behind. The 

 head is densely punctured, with the chjpens not long and rather 

 feebly emarginate in front. The prothorax is narrow, with the 

 sides angulated in the middle and distinctly diverging or nearly 

 parallel behind ; it is moderately punctured and tlie basal lobe is 

 strong. The elytra are strongly punetate-striate, with rather 

 blunt apical angles. The pygidium is rugosely punctured, the 

 metasiernum is rugose at the sides and very sparingly punctured 

 in the middle, and the abdomen almost smooth. The sternal 

 process is blunt and very little produced. 



cJ . The abdomen is not hollowed. The front tibia is armed 

 witii two apical teeth placed close together and an almost obsolete 

 upper one. 



