250 CEEAMBYCID,^. 



front wideued below and with a more or less distinct median 

 carina placed along a glabrous black spot. Antennae half as long 

 as the body in the J ; brownish black, covered with grey pubes- 

 cence ; third joint sliorter than the first and a little longer than 

 the fourth. Prothorax rounded at the sides, almost as wide in 

 the middle as the base of the elytra, a little narrowed towards the 

 base ; the disc somewhat asperate, marked just before the middle 

 with a black spot. Elytra marked each Avith five darJv brown 

 spots, two of which, placed at the middle, sometimes coalesce and 

 form an oblique band produced forwards a little at the suture ; 

 two of the spots are close to the base — one at the shoulder and 

 the other near the scutellum ; the third lunate or crescentic, 

 convex posteriorly, at about one-fourth from the base ; the last 

 spot, placed a little behind the middle, forms a short transvei'se 

 fascia slightly rounded in front and emarginate posteriorly ; 

 apices truncate and unarmed. Body beneath covered with yellow 

 pubescence. Femora brownish black, rather densely punctulate, 

 the hind pair extended beyond the apex of the elytra, more so in 

 the (S than in the $ ; tibiae and tarsi testaceous brown ; first 

 joint of hind tarsus almost twice as long as the second and third 

 united. 



Lenrjth 14-18 ; breadth 4-5 mm. 



Hah. Sikhim : Mungphu (AtJanson) ; Assam : Sylhet and Sib- 

 sagar ; Mauipur {Doherty). 



Genus CLYTUS. 



Clytus, Leichartiiig, Verz. Tyrol. Ins. ii, p. 88 (1784) : Fab. Syst. 



Eleuth. ii, p. 345; Lacord. Gen. CoJeopt. ix, p. 67 (1869). 

 Europa, Thonis. Essai Class. Ceramh. p. 221 (1861). 

 Sphegesthes, Chevr. Mem. Soc. Ii. Sci. de Lieye, xviii, p. 333 (1863). 



Type, C. arietis, Linn., a European species. 



Range. Holarctic Eegion and Xorthern part of the Oriental 

 Eegion. 



Head very slightly raised at the sides between the antennae ; 

 face vertical, more or less rectangular, not carinate. Antennae 

 rather widely separated at the base, much shorter than the body ; 

 third joint shorter than the first, longer than the fourth or follow- 

 ing joints; seventh or eighth to tenth successively shorter, but as 

 thick, or thicker than, the joints preceding them. Pi'othorax 

 evenly convex above, strongly rounded at the sides, more or less 

 constricted at the base, very slightly, if at all, longer than broad. 

 Elytra moderately long, convex above, more or less parallel-sided, 

 truncate at the apex. Eemora more or less gradually thickened ; 

 the hind pair extended to the apex of the elytra or a little beyond 

 it in the 6 , not quite to the apex in the $ . First joint of the 

 hind tarsi as long at least as the remaining joints united. Episterua 

 of metathorax rather broad, A\'ith the sides nearly parallel for 

 about four-fifths of their lenjrth. 



