188 CETONllN.E. 



patches of the elytra are all united, forniiug a broad C-shaj)ed 

 mark upon each, and the remaining anterior spot is almost united 

 to the last. Three similar specimens taken many years ago by 

 Col. Buckley are in the British Museum. They were captured in 

 North India but the exact locality has not been recorded. 



Var. decora, Janson. This is smaller and narrower than the 

 typical form, the elytra are more strongly sculptured, the yellow 

 border to the prothorax is narrow and the elytral markings more 

 or less reduced. 



A'ar. modesta, Blanch. This is a large variety in m hich the yellow 

 markings have undergone considerable reduction. 



1G8. Clinteria caliginosa. 



Cliiiteria caliginosa, Jamon, The Entoimihyist, xxii, 1880, p. 101. 



Black, opaque above, with the head, scutellum, legs and lower 

 surface shining ; decorated with white markings consisting of a 

 narrow marginal line on each side of the prouotum, extending the 

 whole length but sometimes interrupted in the middle, a pair of 

 spots close together and frequently coalescing at the middle of 

 each elyti'on, two adjoining the outer margin posteriorly and one 

 a little before the apical angle. 'J'here is a large spot on each side 

 of the pygidium and the side pieces of the metasternum generally 

 bear a similar spot. 



The fori)i is rather broad, depressed above and scarcely narrowed 

 behind. The head is rugosely punctured, and the margins of the 

 cliipeus rather strongly retiexed and deeply notched in front. The 

 pronotuTii is strongly punctured, the sides regularly curved and 

 strongly contracted in front and the base not strongly lobed. 

 The eliftra are deeply punctate-striate, with two of tlie dorsal 

 intervals raised, the sides are moderately sinuated and the apical 

 angles broadly rounded. The pj/i/idhim is finely strigose and the 

 sides of the metastenium and abdomen are moderately punctured. 

 The sieriud process is very short, but compressed and rather 

 sharply pointed. 



J . The abdomen is arched and the uppermost tooth of the 

 front tibia is rather distant from the other two and obtuse. 



LoHjth 12 mm.; hreadtJi 7'5 mm. 



Madkas: Trichinopoli, Trivandrum, Kodaikanal. 



Ti/jie in coll. O. E. Janson. 



IGO. Clinteria hearseiana. 



('li)iterirt iioarseiaua, U'ci^fw.,* YVa/.s. L'ltt. Soc. Loud, v, 1849, 

 p. 14!>, pi. 1(), fig. S. 



Shining black above and below, often with the pronotum 

 coppery and the elytra slightly metallic. The legs are reddish, 

 and there are white markings consisting of an irregular lateral 



