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the posterior margin. The pygidiuin is decorated also with a 

 median and two lateral spots, which are sometimes confluent. 



This is a broad, robust and convex species. The head is finely 

 rugose, with the clypeal margins reflexed and strongly rounded, 

 but very feebly excised in front. The 2>^'onotum is closely punc- 

 tured, rather narrow, contracted in front and broadly lobed 

 behind. The elytra are punctate-striate, with the sides strongly 

 sinuated behind the shoulders and the apical angles slightly 

 rounded. The pyrfidium is finely rugose, the metastermnn and 

 abdomen very spariugly punctured in the middle and densely hairy 

 at the sides. The sternal process is extremely short aud blunt, and 

 th.e front tibia armed with three sharp teeth. 



d" . The abdomen is broadly channelled along the middle. 



I have not seen the female. 



Length 14-15 mm. : breadth 7'5 mm. 



Bengal. 



Typie in the British Museum. 



This species is wrongly attributed to Java in the Munich 

 Catalogue, Mr. Janson has received examples from India. 



IGG. Clinteria rufipeiinis. 



Cliuteria rufipeiinis, Janson* Tlie Entumuloyid, xxii, 1889, p. 100. 



Deep chocolate-red, opaque above, with the elytra brighter, and 

 decorated with bright yellow markings consisting of a very broad 

 lateral band on each side of the pronotum, indented in the middle, 

 and a spot at the apex of the basal lobe, 

 the mesosternal epimera, an anterior 

 discoidal spot upon each elytron, a median 

 spot nearer the suture, a lateral one a 

 little posterior to the last and two apical 

 ones, a large patch on each side of the 

 pygidium and the sides of the sternum 

 and abdomen. The lower surface is 

 shining black, the legs and sternal pro- 

 cess are red, and the head and scutellum 

 coppery. 



Oval in shape, aud moderately broad 

 and convex. The head is rugosely punc- 

 tured and deeply notched in front. The 

 j_tronotu)n is rather narrow in front, gently 

 rounded at the sides and strongly lobed 

 behind. The elytra have impressed lines of circular punctures, 

 the sides are strongly sinuated behind the shoulders, and the 

 apical angles are slightly rounded. The pygidium is rugose along 

 the middle line and thinly pubescent, the vietasterni'in is smooth 

 in the middle, and the abdomen very sparingly and minutely punc- 

 tured. The sternal 2>i'0C(ss is very short and conical. 



Fig. 42. 



Clinteria riijipoiniri. 



