266 CEEAMBYCID.^. 



one at the middle and the third a httle before the apex. Antennae a 

 little longer than half the body, black, covered with grey pubes- 

 cence ; third joint subeqnal in length to the first and locger than 

 the fourth. Prothorax about one-fourth longer than broad, 

 rounded at the sides, not so wide in the middle as the base of 

 the elytra. Elytra dentate at the outer angles of the truncate 

 apex. Jjody beneath black with a faint grey pubescence, but with 

 the first two abdominal segments, more or less, and spots on the 

 middle and hind breast covered with dense white pubescence. 

 Legs black with a faint grey pubescence ; middle femora feebly 

 carinate posteriorly, and near the apex in front ; hind femora not 

 carinate ; first joint of the hind tarsus shorter than the remaining 

 joints united. 



Length 9 ; breadth 3 mm. 



Hab. Southern India : Nilgiri Hills. 



308. Caloclytus 14-maculatus, Cherr. (Antboboscus) Mem. Soc. JR. 



Set. de Lieyc, xviii, p. 295 (1863). 



Dei:isely covered ^ith yellowish-grey or ashy-gre}' pubescence, 

 varied with black spots — four on the prothorax and five on each 

 elytron. Of the prothoracic spots two are placed side by side 

 very closely behind the middle and one on each side just before the 

 middle ; the elytral spots are placed — one, large and transverse, 

 at the middle, three smaller between this and the base, and one 

 almost equally large and transverse between it and the apex ; 

 one oE the three anterior spots is at the side and equidistant from 

 the other two, which lie, one before the other, on the disc. 

 Antennae half as long as the body, black, veiled with a grey 

 pubescence ; third joint longer than the fourth, but scarcely as 

 long as the first. Prothorax oblong-ovate, not quite so wide in 

 the middle as the base of the elytra. Elytra feebly dentate at 

 the outer angles of the truncate apex. Body beneath covered 

 with a dense white pubescence, except on the middle of the breast, 

 which has a thinner and darker pubescence. Legs black, with 

 grey pubescence ; middle femora feebly carinate on both sides ; 

 first joint of the hind tarsus not so long as the remaining joints 

 united. 



Variation. The black spots on the elytra vary in size, and in 

 some cases are so large that the elytra might be described as 

 black, interrupted by narrow bands of grey pubescence. 



Length 8-16; breadth 2^-3 ram. 



Hab. Southern India : Kilgiri Hills. 



309. Caloclytus moestus, Chnr. (Anthoboscus) Mem. <Soc. li. Sci. de 



Li^ye, xviii, p. ."iOO (18U3). 



Black ; head covered ^ith ashy-grey ])ubescence ; prothorax 

 dark grey, with a large black spot on the middle of the disc 

 united by a transverse band to a smaller, round, black spot on 



