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2249. Clovia rcepstorffi, sp. n. 



Much (smaller than C. andamancnsis ; pi'onotum without the 

 three intermediate lines as in that species ; tegmina black or 

 piceous, with an inwardly-curved fascia commencing at inner base 

 of clavus and terminating near middle of costal margin ; a short 

 discal longitudinal fascia, a curved fascia on apical area which 

 commences on costal margin at about one-fourth from apex and 

 also occupies the whole of apical margin, and narrow inner claval 

 margin ochraceous ; body beneath and legs ochraceous ; anterior 

 margin of face and lateral margins of head beneath black. 



Length 9 millim. 



Hah. Andaman Islands {De Roepstorff, Brit. Mks.). 



2250. Clovia humeralis, Kirhi/, J. Linn. Soc, Zool. xxiv, p. I(j2 



(1891) ; Melich. Horn. Fmtn. Ceylon, p. 137 (1903). 



" Head, pronotum, and scutellum dull testaceous ; head and 

 pronotum with two dull reddish stripes, rather wider behind, on 

 each side of the median line ; a shorter one, darker behind, within 

 and behind each eye ; head with the front reddish, below which is 

 a blackish half-circle ; otherwise testaceous beneath, as are also 

 the sides of the thorax and abdomen and the legs beyond the 

 middle of the femora ; otherwise the under surface of the body is 

 blackish ; tegmina pointed in the middle, so that there is no 

 proper hind margin, chestnut-brown, with a testaceous stripe on 

 the basal third of the costa, broadest at the extremity ; a slender, 

 transverse, submarginal stripe at the extremity of the costa, 

 preceded by another broad transverse stripe running from the 

 costa just below the tip and ceasing in a point before reaching the 

 inner margin ; on the outer half of the inner margin there are 

 some smaller and more irregular testaceous spots and streaks, 

 which ru nup to the middle of the tegmina on the basal side." 

 {Kirhy.) 



Length 10 millim. 



Hah. Ceylon (JIus. Berlin) ; Pundaluoya {Green, Brit. Mus.). 



Genus LEPYRONIA. 



Lepyronia, Amy. Sf Serv. Ilnn. p. ;j07 (1S43) ; Stdl, Hem. Afr. iv, 

 p.' 66 (1866); Fieb. Rev. Mag. Zool. (3) iii, p. -382 (1875) ;' Ball, 

 Rep. lotva Acad. Sci. 1898, p. 217 ; Melich. Hom. Faun. Ceylon, 

 p. 132 (1903); Matsnm. Journ. Sapporo Ayr'l. Coll. ii, p. 23 

 (1903). 



Type, L. coleoptrata, Linn., a Palaearctic species. 



Distribution. Palaearctic, Nearctic, and Oriental Eegions. 



Face as long as pronotum at middle, rather more than half as 

 long as breadth between eyes ; vertex subangularly convexly 

 anteriorly produced ; ocelli less removed from each other than 

 from eyes ; antennae inserted in deej) grooves near the inner 



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