190 CETOXllX.t. 



elytra have incomplete rows of very coarse puuctures, the sides 

 are strongly sinuated hehind the shoulders, and the apical angles 

 are sharp. There is a slight depression in the soutellar region. 

 1\\Q pllilidlum is finely rugose and thinly clothed with tawny setae, 

 and the metastenmm and ahdomen are smooth in the middle and 

 iiiiely punctured at the sides. The sternal process is feehle but 

 rather sharply pointed. The Icfjs are rather short, the front tibia 

 is tridentate, and the extremity of the hind tibia is produced 

 beneath into a single tooth. 



c? . The abdomen is slightly channelled and the front tibia 

 rather slender, with the third tooth almost obsolete. 



Length 14-10 mm.; breadth 7*5-9 mm. 



Ckylon : Colombo, Trincomali. 



Ttipe not traced (in coll. Lee); that of var. rnegaspilvta in coll. 

 O. E. Janson. 



The var. mcfjaspilota , Kanueg., is distinguished only by the 

 rather large size of the white spots. A series of specimens received 

 by Mr. E. E. Green from Ti-incomali belong to this form. 



171. Clinteria ccerulea. (Plate I, fig. 8.) 



Cetoui.a coevulea, Herhst, Fuessh/'s Archiv, iv, 1783, p. 19, pi. 19. 



tip-. ;50 ; Xatursijst. Kiif. iii, 1790, p. 2U, pi. 30, tig. 2 ; Oliv., Ent. 



i, 6, 1789, p. 47, pi. 5, tig. 31 a. 

 Gymnetis ccerulea, G. S; P.. Monogr. Get. 1833, p. 378, pi. 77, tig. 4. 

 Clinteria ccerulea, Bnrm., Handh. Ent. iii, 1842, p. 305. 



Shining blue-black, with the prothorax golden-red, its margins and 

 the head metallic-green, and with five to seven small white spots 

 upon each elytron, including one just behind the front margin, a 

 second directly behind that, two near the sutural margin and two 

 at the lateral margin upon the posterior half. The pygidium has 

 a large irregular patch on each side, and the sides of the sternum, 

 hind coxa) and abdomen are more or less spotted with white. 



The shape is oval and rather convex. The head, is densely 

 punctured and the chjpeus long and moderately notched in front. 

 The iironotum is very finely aud sparingly punctured, very convex, 

 narrowed in front and strongly lobed behind. The eh/fra have 

 rows of very coarse puuctures, the sides are strongly sinuated and 

 the apical angles sharp. There is a slight depression in the 

 scutellar region. The jiggidium is finely rugose aud clothed with 

 tawny setae, and the mctastcrniim and abdomen ai*e smooth in the 

 middle and moderately punctured at the sides. The sternal pro- 

 cess is very short and a little compi-essed laterally. The legs are 

 rather short, ihe front tibia is tridentate, and the extremity of the 

 hind tibia is produced beneath into a single tooth. 



cT . The front tibia is more slender than that of the female and 

 the upptn-most tooth is almost obsolete. 



Lngth 14-1 mm.; breadth 7"5-9 mm. 



Madras : Coimbatore. 



