CLINTERIA. 187 



d" . The abdomen is strongly arched and grooved. 

 Length 14 mm. ; breadth 7 mm. 

 Ceylon : Colombo. 

 Type in coll. O. E. Janson. 



167. Clinteria klugi. 



Cetonia klugi, Hope,* Grays Zool. Misc. 1831, p. 2o. 



Gymnetisi 12-giittata, Blanch., Liste Cet. Mus. Paris, 1842, p. 16. 



Cliuteria hilaris, Burm., Ilandb. Ent. iii, 1842, p. 303. 



Clinteria Havopicta, Blanch., Cat. Col. Mus. Paris, 1850, p. 37. 



Var. Clinteria decora, Janson,^ Cist. Ent. ii. 1881, p. 603. 



Var. Gymnetis niodesta, Blanch.,* Liste Cet. Mus. Paris, 1842, 



p. 16 ; Cat. Col. Mus. Paris, 18o0, p. 37. 

 Tiuclirea hilari.s, Thomson, Le Naturaliste, 18S0, p. 268. 



Black or deep reddish chocolate, opaque, with the bead, legs 

 and lower surface sliining ; decorated with deep yellow or orange 

 markings, consisting of a broad marginal baud upon the pronotum, 

 arising in the front angles and a little incurved near the hind 

 angles, but frequently more or less abbreviated and sometimes 

 absent, a large spot on each mesosternal epimeron, an irregular 

 transverse median band on each elytron, sometimes broken into 

 two spots, a spot anterior to this, and two apical spots, a patch 

 on each side of the pygidium, and the sides of the sternum and 

 abdomen. 



The form is moderately elongate and depressed. The head is 

 finely and rugosely punctured and rather deeply incised in front. 

 The prothora.v is regularly curved at the sides, strongly narrowed 

 in front and moderately lobed behind. The elijtra have rather 

 strongly and closely punctured strise, they are gently sinuated at 

 the sides and almost rectangular at the apical angles. The 

 _l>ygidium is finely strigose, the metasternum is coarsely punctured 

 at the sides, and each ventral ser/rncnt has a transverse line of large 

 punctures. The sternal process is short and conical. 



cf . The abdomen is strongly arched and channelled beneath. 



Length 13-17 mm. ; breadth 6"5-9 mm. 



Bombay : Jgatpuri, Kanara ; Wesieex Bengal : Sultanpur, 

 Paresnath, 4000-4400 it., April. 



Type in the British Museum ; types oi Jlavopicta and modesta in 

 the Paris Museum, that of decora in coll. O. E. Janson. 



C. Idugi is a very variable species in size, relative proportions, 

 degree of convexity, and pattern. The yellow markings vary 

 considerably in tint and may become broken up, reduced, or partly 

 (perhaps entirely) absent, and in certain specimens those near the 

 elytral suture even show a tendency to coalesce in a longitudinal 

 direction. The following are well-marked varieties : — 



Yar. felix, nov. This is a well-marked local colour-variety in 

 which the bright pigment has reached the fullest development. The 

 lateral yellow patches upon the pronotum cover the whole surface 

 except a nearly straight median stripe ; the median and posterior 



