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apex. Body beneath black, covered with a faint grey pubescence; 

 the episterua of the meso- and metathoras, two transverse bands 

 on the metasternum and a band on each side of the first two seg- 

 ments of the abdomen covered densely with white pubescence. 

 Legs black, with grey pubescence ; femora not cariuate ; first joint 

 of hind tarsus not so long as the remaining joints united. 



Lenrjth 10-15; breadth 3-4| mm. 



Hah. Ceylon. 



314. Caloclytus ludens, Gahan, Ann. Miis. Cic. Genova, xsxiv, p. 25, 



pi. 1, tig. 5 (1894). 



Eather long and narrow ; black ; head and prothorax faintly 

 covered with greyish pubescence, prothorax with a narrow baud of 

 ashy-white pubescence at the base ; scutellum ashy grey ; elytra 

 black, banded with ashy-grey pubescence ; the first band transverse 

 at the base ; the second begins at the suture just behind the scu- 

 tellum, diverges slightly from the suture as it passes back some 

 distance, then curves outwards and slightly forwards, stopping 

 short on the side ■v\ithout reaching the outer margin ; the third 

 band, placed just behind the middle, is somewhat triangular in form 

 with its apex anteriorly at the suture; the fourth is a broad trans- 

 verse band at the apex ; body beneath covered \\\ih pubescence, 

 which is grey in the middle, whitish on the sides of the breast and 

 abdomen. Antennas piceous, covered ^^■ith greyish pubescence, 

 reaching about to the apical fourth of the elytra in the $ . Pro- 

 thorax subcylindrical, much longer than broad, slightlv rounded at 

 the sides. Elytra truncate at the apex, the outer angles shortlv 

 spined. First joint of the hind tarsus about equal in len<^th to 

 the remaining joints united. 



Length 11 mm. 



Hah. Tenasserim : Thagata {Fea). 



315. Caloclytus assimilis, Hope (Clytus), Gray's Zool Misc p '^S 



(1831). 



Black, densely covered with yellow pubescence, greenish-vellow 

 above, of a somewhat whitish-yello\\" tint belo\\- ; prothorax with 

 three rather small, round, black spots, one on the middle of the 

 disc, and one at each side visible from above ; elytra marked each 

 M'ith t\AO, or (?) one, brownish-black spot at the base, a rounded 

 spot at the middle and another placed about midway between this 

 and the apex ; body beneath entirely covered with yellowish 

 pubescence. Antenuie black, covered to some extent with grevish 

 pubescence, and extended to the middle of the elytra ; third joint 

 longer than the first or the fourth ; fourth and fifth subeqiial ; sixth 

 and seventh subequal, each shorter than the fifth : eighth to tenth 

 shorter each than the seventh. Legs black, covered with grev 

 pubescence ; femora not caz'inate, the hind pair extend to the apex 

 of the elytra. 



