CALOCLTTUS. 



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Fig. 92. 



Calodytus jucundus, 

 Perr. X 1. 



past the middle, where it is dilated, with a notch posteriorly so as 

 to form two small lobes, and a round spot on each side before the 

 middle ; on each elytron a transverse median band, three angulate 

 spots (t\\-o anterior and one posterior) between it and the base, 

 and one larger rounded spot between it 

 and the apex ; the transverse band is 

 slightly enlarged posteriorly at its outer 

 end, which reaches the margin and is pro- 

 duced forwards so as to form a narrow 

 triangle at the suture ; of the three ante- 

 rior spots, the tirst is on the shoulder and 

 reaches to the basal margin ; the second, 

 more elongate, is on the inner part of the 

 disc and is usually united posteriorly by a 

 very short, narrow, oblique line or point 

 with the third spot, which lies on the outer 

 part of the disc: the posterior rounded 

 spot reaches to the outer margin, but not 

 to the suture. [In the variety— C. nepos, 

 Chevr.— this posterior spot is divided longi- 

 tudinally by a narrow yellow line, and the 

 median baiid also is interrupted by a yellow 

 line near its outer end.] x^ntennaj half as long as the body, 

 blackish, with a faint grey pubescence. Prothorax longer than 

 broad, almost as wide in the middle as the base of the elytra. 

 Elytra feebly dentate at the angles of the truncate apex. Body 

 beneath blackish, with a faint grey pubescence in the middle and 

 a dense whitish pubescence on the episterna, the borders of the 

 metasterjuim and the sides of the abdominal segments. Legs 

 varying in colour from black to reddish brown, with_ a faint 

 covering of grey pubescence ; middle femora, and the hind ones 

 more feebly, carinate on each side ; first joint of. the hind tarsus 

 not so long as the remaining joints united. 

 Lear/th 10-15 ; hrcadtli 3-4 mm. 



Hah. Southern India : Madras, 8himoga, Mysore. Chevrolat has 

 given Svlhet, no doubt erroneously, as the locality of C. cognatus 

 and -'Inde anglaise" as the locality of C. nepos. An example of 

 the latter form in M. Oberthiir's" collection, that agrees exactly 

 with the type, is labelled Trichiuopoly. 



303. Caloclytus arciferus, Chevr. (Amam-festhes) Mejn. Soc. Ji. Sci. de 

 Lieye, xviii, p. 330 (1863). 



Densely covered above with an ochreous-yellow pubescence, 

 varied with black markings disposed as follows :— a median bilobed 

 spot on the disc of the prothorax and a small spot on each side 

 just before the middle ; three bands on each elytron : the first 

 curved inwards from the shoulder passes backwards along the 

 disc rather nearer to the suture than to the side, then curves out- 

 wards and ends near the edge of the disc at about a third of its 



