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is more compressed and forms an acute carina in front. 



I possess both sexes from Batavia, and have examples 

 before me , belonging to the Leyden Museum, likewise from 

 West Java, and collected by Messrs. Blume, Muller, Piepers 

 and Sijthofi. A very pretty pale variety with yellow legs 

 has been sent by Mr. Doherty from Perak. 



The black markings on the elytra are very variable in 

 this as well as in the allied species, and are sometimes 

 quite absent; it is this variety that has been described re- 

 cently by Dr. Kraatz under the name of rujipenms, as has 

 been already indicated by Mr. Ritsema. In the female of 

 this species the yellow lines on the thorax are much broad- 

 er than in the male. 



4. T. virgata , n. sp. 



Very similar to quadrilineata Hope but larger, head 

 more coarsely and closely punctured, the median carina 

 rather stronger , clypeus deeply eraarginate , club of the 

 antennae in the male about half the length of the head , 

 much shorter in both sexes than in quadrilineata. Thorax 

 regularly rounded at the sides and distinctly narrowed be- 

 hind , the basal lobe short and broad, more closely punc- 

 tured than in quadrilineata , the four longitudinal bands 

 broader and more regular. Scutellum black, with a few 

 coarse punctures and an impressed yellow median line. 

 Elytra red with elongate black markings and small yellow 

 spots, more produced and rounded at the apex than in 

 quadrilineata, the black portion broader with the yellow 

 spot linear, oblique and further from the apex than in 

 that species. Pygidium coarsely rugulose, black with a 

 narrow yellow central line. Underside and legs black or 

 piceous with broad yellow markings, mesosternal process 

 broader and more obtuse than in quadrilineata. — Length 

 18—19 mm. 



India; Mungphu and Darjeeliug. In my collection and 

 the Indian Museum. 



Notes from tlie Leyden Museum, "Vol. XIV. 



