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large spot between the middle and the apex, rounded on the 

 inner side, widened, especially posteriorly, towards the outer 

 margin, which it reaches. Autennte of the 6 reach beyond the 

 middle of the elytra, reddish in colour, sometimes (var. russicoUis) 

 with the first joint black ; third joint not longer than the first or 

 fourth. Protiiorax ovate-cylindrical, narrower than the elytra. 

 Bodv beneath black, with the pro- and mesosterna, the episterna, 

 the "borders of the metasternum and a lateral spot on each of the 

 abdomiual segments covered with a rather dense whitish pubes- 

 cence. Legs ferruginous red, the femora sometimes (var. russi- 

 coUis) pitchy black; middle femora carinate on each side, the 

 hind pair not carinate; first joint of hind tarsus slightly longer 

 than the remaining joints united. 



Lenr/tJi 10-14 ; breadth 3-4| mm. 



Hab. Southern India : Pondicherry and Xilgiri Hills. 



306. Caloclytus rubricollis, Lap. et Gonj (Clytui-), Hist. Nat. et Iconof/r. 

 des Lis. Coleopt. {Mon. du Genre Clytus), p. 88, pi. 16, tig. 102. 

 Var. audamanicus, var. nov. 



Head black, prothorax red ; elytra black or very dark brown, 

 with ashy-grey bands; one crosses the base from near the 

 shoulder, passes along the suture for a short distance and then 

 turns so as to cross the elytron in a slightly oblique direction to 

 the outer margin ; a second transverse band some way behind the 

 middle and a third at the apex; in addition to the bands there is 

 a small, round, grey spot on the disc of each elytron close to the 

 shoulder. Antennte reach to the middle of the elytra ; the first 

 five joints are black; the rest reddish, closely covered with ashy- 

 grey pubescence. Prothorax oblong-ovate, about one-fifth longer 

 than broad, narrower than the base of the elytra. Elytra dentate 

 at the angles of the truncate apex. Body beneath (the prothorax 

 excepted) black, with the episterna, two transverse bands on the 

 metasternum and one at the hind border of each of the first two 

 abdominal segments, covered with dense white pubescence. Legs 

 black, with a very faint grey pubescence ; middle and hind femora 

 carinate on each side. 



Length 14^ ; breadth 3 mm. 



Hab. Burma : North Chin Hills ; Malay Peninsula ; Java. 



Yar. andamanicus. DiSers from the type as follows : — The legs 

 and antenna red ; the elytra reddish brown, especially near the 

 base, and the grey bands somewhat wider. 



Hab. Andaman Islands. 



307. Caloclytus alboscutellatus, CJieir. (Anthoboscus) 3/tw. <Soc. ^. 

 Sci. de Lief/e, xviii, p. 307 (1863). 



Densely covered above Avith grey pubescence, ashy-grey on the 

 elytra, somewhat darker on the head and prothorax ; scutellum 

 white ; elytra with three transverse black bands—one at the base, 



