1 32 LFCANTD^E. 



elj^ra bright yellow, with narrow black outer margins and a 

 large black inverted triangle extending from the base to tlie 

 apex. The head is very coarsely and riigosely punctured, 

 the eyes small, with the cantlius reaching beyond th(^ middle. 

 The pronotum is very finely and sparsely punctured in the 

 middle, very stronglj- but not densely at the sides, the lateral 

 margins are gently rounded to past the middle, where they are 

 obtusely angled, and feebly concave to the blunt hind angles. 

 The firntellum bears a few punctures. The elytra are finely 

 but distinctly ])unctured, the sides rather more strongly and 

 closely and the apic(\s I'ugosely. The mentiun is coarsely 

 rugose, the ntetadernum. unevenly, not closely, ])unctured, the 

 abdomen very sparsely and uiinutely, except the first and last 

 sternites, which are strongly punctured. The front tibia 

 ends in four short blunt lobes. 



^. The head, mandibles, lower surface and legs are bro\vnish- 

 black and the pronotum and elytra bright _>'ellow, witli the 

 extreme edges black and Avith three irregular black longitudinal 

 stripes upon the pronotum and a regular stripe, common to 

 both elytra, whicli tapers a little before the apex. There is 

 also a triangular yellow patch on each side of the metasternum 

 anteriorly. The body is elongate and not very convex, tlie 

 surfac(! dull above and beneath and only a little more shining 

 near the elytral suture. The head and pronotum are very 

 finely and densely granular, the head is rather convex and 

 lias two slightly indicated elevations near the middle, the 

 front angles are: obtuse, the eyes small, with a very narrow 

 canthus extending to the middle, the head a little produced 

 behind the eyes and rounded behind them at the sides. The 

 dypeal process is narrow and feebl}'^ bilobed at the end. The 

 mandibles are slender, straight from the base to within a 

 short distance of the tip, where they are evenly curved, the 

 inner edge serrate for nearly the whole length but with a 

 small single tooth a short distance from the tip. The front 

 angles of the pronotum are produced and blunt, the lateral 

 margins gently curved to the lateral angles, wliich are sharj), 

 and concave to (he well-marked hind angles. The elijtra ar(> 

 densely punctured, the a})ical part more coriaceous, the 

 shoulders sharply angular. The mentum is granular, the 

 metastenunn feebly punctured and the abdomen abnost 

 unpunctui'ed. The legs are slender, the front tibia witli a 

 minutely serrate outer edge and feeble teeth, the terminal 

 fork not strong, and the middle and hind tibia^ are without 

 lateral spines. 



^. /y^n^^// (with mandibles), 25-27 mm.; (without mandibles) 

 20-21 mm. : breadth, 8-5 mm. 



$. Length, \H mm. ; breadth, T-H mm. 



S. Tni)I.\ : Pcriambadi Dhat, Coorg (May) ; Kumali Hill 



