232 GYMNETIS KERREMANSI. 



Broad, heavy-bodied, the epimera strongly projecting, 

 uppersurface opaque. 



The head is ochraceous with the raised margins and 

 also the antennae purple-bronze, shining; on the vertex some 

 large punctures, a few smaller ones on the clypeus, the 

 rims strigose. 



The prothorax covered with a mixture of ochraceous, 

 rufous-brown and black spots , forming a somewhat radiate 

 pattern, the fallow-colour predominates, darkest towards 

 the base and at the median lobe, before the middle with 

 eight small black spots, placed in two transverse rows; 

 convex , strongly narrowed towards the top , the sides so- 

 mewhat angular in the middle , the hinder angles subacute , 

 the median lobe broadly rounded at the top, leaving un- 

 covered a very small tip of the scutellum, slightly mar- 

 gined along the sides and with a few very distant punc- 

 tures. The epimera fallow, their apex with a purple- 

 bronze gloss. 



The elytra are slightly narrowed posteriorly, rounded at 

 the apex and obtuse at the suture; each elytron shows a 

 large suboval pale yellow spot in the middle , a large spot 

 occupying the apical portion up to the callus, and a few 

 smaller ones along the outer margin of the same colour, 

 these spots are not sharply bordered, but flow together 

 with the mixture of ochraceous , rufous-brown and black 

 (the black predominates), of the surrounding parts. 



The pygidium is fallow , rugosely striated and punctured. 



The undersurface and the legs are fallow with the ex- 

 ception of the median part of the mesosternum , the meso- 

 sternal process , the tip of the forder and middle tibiae , the 

 outerside of the hinder legs , the tarsi and the greater median 

 portion of the abdomen , all these parts are brilliant black 

 with a strong purple-bronze hue. The mesosternal process is 

 large, curved downward, with a granule at the upper 

 side. The mesosternum is deeply sulcated longitudinally ; 

 the sternum, the sides of the abdomen and the legs are 

 covered with large deep semicircular punctures ; the anterior 



Notes from the Hieyden IMuseuiu, "Vol. VIII. 



