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333. Rhapliuma elegantiila, sp. n. 



Black ; slabrous and nitid above ; the elytra marked with pubes- 

 cent white spots and bands as follows: a small mdistuict asby- 

 M-hite spot at each side of the scutellum, a small snow-white spot 

 on the disc of each elytron at about one-iourth from the base, a 

 ^arrmv transverse snow-wlnte band a little behind the muldle, and 

 a narrow ashy-white band at the apex; body beneath black covere.l 

 in part with grev pubescence, with spots of dense white pubes- 

 cence on the sides of the mesothorax, j^etathorax and fir.t 

 abdominal segment. Antenna extend to the apical third of the 

 elytra; third joint more than twice as long as the first ; touitti 

 and fifth subequal, united not much longer than the third l^io- 

 thorax rather strongly rounded at the sides, narrowed at the base, 

 strongly and somewhat roughly punctured. Elytra very glossy 

 less st/onglv and somewhat sparsely punctate; truncate at the 

 apex, feebly denticulate at the angles. _ Episterna of metathoiax 

 stronglv overlapped in front by the sides of the elytra. Legs 

 pitch-black, nitid; hind femora very sparsely punctate extending 

 by about a fourth of their length past the apex of the elytra. 

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



united. 



Length 5-6: hreadtli l\-^ mm. 

 Hah. Nilgiri Hills {H. L. Andreives). 



Genus CLYTOCERA, gen. nov. 



Type, C. cliionospila, sp. n. 



lianqe. Southern India. , . , , ^ i ^ 



Narrow and elongate in form. Head with the antennal supports 

 distinctly raised so as to form a prominent ridge, rather broadly 

 concave in the middle, between the antenna. Antennae one- 

 third longer than the body in the 6 ; second ]oint longer than 

 broad • third and following joints slightly compressed, successively 

 r^arvo^vev, each almost equally broad throughout its length ; fourth 

 scarcely shorter than the third. Prothorax ovate-oblong, widest 

 behind the middle; front margin shghtly rounded. El>tia 

 truncate at the apex ; the lateral margins nearly straight. Epi- 

 sterna of metathorax narrowed considerably at the apex, the inner 

 border rather strouglv curved posteriorly. Legs long ; coxae 

 prominent : femora subpedunculate at base, fusiform -clavate to- 

 wards the apex, the hind pair extending far beyond the apex ot 

 the elytra in the 6 ; first joint of hind tarsus almost three times 

 as lone as the next tw-o united. . 



Erom A7*a»7rHH*«, Pasc, to which it comes nearest in general 

 form and structure, this new genus differs as follows : the antennal 

 supports more prominently raised and more divergent, the femora 

 more strouglv thickened,"and the metathoracic episterna curved 

 at the inner border and considerably narrowed posteriorly. 



