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region of the elytra, sometimes the greater part or the whole of 

 the surface, dark green ; the upper surface opaque, with partial 

 metallic lustre, the lower surface shining and clothed upon the 

 sternum and sides of the abdomen with long yellow hairs. The 

 upper surface is decorated with pale yellow markings, consisting 

 of a lateral border extending the whole length of each side of the 

 pronotum, a narrow median longitudinal line and a small elongate 

 spot upon the posterior lobe frequently united with the median line, 

 which then extends from the front to the hind margin ; the elytra 

 bear variable scattered markings, sometimes consisting of about 

 ten spots, sometimes coalescing into indefinite patches, but always 

 with an indication of a transverse postmedian fascia upon each. 

 The pygidium is marked with three spots, the middle one pro- 

 duced towards the apex, and the abdomen has a line of transverse 

 spots on each side. 



It is a small elongate species. The head is densely granulated 

 and the chjimis feebly notched in front. The jrrotliomx is rather 

 narrow, strongly tapered anteriorly and moderately lobed behind ; 

 the upper surface is distinctly and rather uniformly punctured. 

 The elytra are coarsely striate-punctate, with the sides strongly 

 siuuated and the apical angles well marked. The pyijidium is 

 finely rugose, and the metastemum and abdomen are rather coarsely 

 punctured. The sternal proceas is very short and blunt. 



6 . The abdomen is strongly arched and excavated beneath. 



Length 12-1-1 mm. ; hreadth 6-7 mm. 



Sikkim: Mungphu ; Assam: Karsiang (5000 ft.) ; United 

 Pkovinces : Landaur, Mussoori ; Punjab : Simla (7000 ft., May) ; 

 Bengal : Eajpur. 



Type in the British Museum ; types of confims and viridipes in 

 the Oxford Museum. 



Found on flowers of white stonecrop by ^Ir. X. Anuandale at 

 .Simla and upon thistles by Capt. Boys, according to Dr. Schaum. 



165. Clinteria hoffnieisteri. 



Clinteria hoffmeisteri, White* Ann. Xat. Hist, xx, 1847, p. 311 ; 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1856, p. 15, pi. 41, tig. 5. 



Obscurely coppery, opaque above, with the head, pygidium, legs 

 and lower surface shining, and clothed above and below, except at 

 the middle of the metasternum and abdomen, with rather long 

 yellowish hairs. The outer half of each elytron is brick-red, and 

 the upper surface is also decorated with pale yellow markings as 

 follows: — the lateral margins of the prothorax and a narrow 

 median line, which is continued upon the exposed apex of the 

 scutellum, an outer marginal stripe on the elytron, which is con- 

 tinued, more or less interruptedly, just within the sutural margin 

 from the apex to about the middle, and an oblique discoidal stripe 

 upon each elytron at the junction of the light and dark parts, 

 continuous with the prothoracic border and not quite attaining 



