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made up of a series of elongate spots placed side by side ; the 

 oblique apical margin of the elytra blue-black, the lateral maiyins 

 iiot dark as in the preceding species. Head rugulose-punctate. 

 litenna^ reach past the apex of the elytra by about three 

 ^ joints in the $, and by more than 



four in the ^ ; first joint very densely 

 and very finely rugulose-punctate ; third 

 to sixth not spined in either sex; all 

 the joints pubescent, the pubescence 

 longer and somewhat denser on the 

 underside. Prothorax transverse, but 

 much narrower than the elytra, slightly 

 constricted and marked with a trans- 

 verse groove near base and apex, a little 

 dilated and strongly tuberculate at the 

 middle of each side ; the dark spots on 

 the disc placed on two slight elevations, 

 between which is a median canahculate 

 depression ; the surface densely rugulose- 

 punctate, sparsely clothed with Ion gish 

 pubescence. Each elytron with two 

 feebly raised dorsal costse which unite 

 at about the middle of the posterior 

 dark band, a single costa continued thence almost up to the 

 apical border ; the surface very finely rugulose-punctate, covered 

 faintlv with short grev pubescence. Tips of the femora and tibiae 

 and lateral borders of the metasternum, black. Last ventral 

 secernent sinuate at the apex in the 6 , broadly truncate and fringed 

 wiUi reddish-brown hairs in the $ . Intercoxal process of pro- 

 sternum abruptly dechvous in front. 

 Leuf/tJi 30-37 ; hreadtJt 9-11 mm. 

 Bab. Sikhim : Darjeeling ; British Bhutan. 



Fio'. 43. — Ojilatocera 

 oberthuri, Gahan, S • 



Group HESPEROPHANINI. 



Gula without mentigerous process, excei)t in Hesperojilianes, in 

 which it is very short ; ligula membranous ; eyes large, deeply 

 emartrinate ; antennte ciliated, longer than the body m the S . 

 Prothorax unarmed at the sides. Elytra rather long, more or less 

 parallel-sided. Eront coxte subglobular, more or less angulate at 

 the side ; their acetabula open posteriorly ; the intercoxal process 

 either very little or not at all dilated at the end. Acetabula of 

 middle coxae extended to the epimera. Eirst abdominal sternite 

 iiot longer than the second except in the middle and at the sides. 

 Winc'-venation reduced bv the disappearance either of vein Cu2 

 or o? the posterior branch of Cu 1, probably the latter ; Cu2 in 

 that case having lost its connection with Al appears simply 

 as a branch of Cu 1 . 



