280 CEBAMBYCID.E. 



334. Clytocera chionospila, sp. n. 



Varies from reddisli brown to brownish blacli in colour, tomen- 

 tose and dull above, with spots of snow-white pubescence on the 

 prothorax, elytra and underside. Prothorax with a small post- 

 median spot, a short, transverse basal lineole on each side above 

 and a smaller spot on each side close to the coxal cavity. Elytra 

 each with a small subsutural spot at some distance behind the 

 scutellum, a discal spot before the middle, a short fascia obliquely 

 from the suture behind the middle, a discal spot midway between 

 this fascia and the apex and a transverse spot at the apex. 

 Antennae reddish brown, as long as the body in the $ , about 

 one-third longer in the cJ ; second joint one-third longer than 

 broad ; third scarcely longer than the fourth and not longer than 

 the fifth or sixth. Prothorax about one-fourth longer than broad 

 in the c? ; widest behind the middle, gradually narrowed in front, 

 and marked with a sulcate constriction close to the base ; sub- 

 asperate above, slightly raised along the middle. Elytra dentate 

 at the outer angles of the truncate apices. Abdomen sub- 

 glabrous and subnitid, the rest of the underside tomentose and 

 dull; a spot on each of the meso- and metathoracic episterna, and 

 four on each side of the abdomen, snow-white. Femora finely 

 punctulate, subasperate beneath, and denticulate at the apical 

 angles ; the hind pair extending to the apex of the elytra in the 5 , 

 and far beyond it in the (f . 



Length 7-12; breadth 1^-21 mm. 



Hah. Southern India : Nilgiri Hills {H. L. Andreiues), Canara. 



Genus DEMONAX. 



Demonax, T/ioms. Essai Classif. Ceramh. p. 226 (18G1) ; Chevr. 



Mem. Soc. R. Sci. de Lm/e, xviii, p. 268 (1863). 

 Grammographus, Cheer. Man. Soc. R. Sci. de Liege, xviii, p. 285 



(1863). 

 Elezira, Pascoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. (3) iii, p. 637 (1869). 



Type, D. nir/rofasciatus, Thorns., a species from Batchian in 

 the Malay Archipelago. 



Range. Oriental Kegion and Austro-Malayan Subregion. 



Head subacutely raised on each side between the antennae. 

 Antennas not Avidely separated at the base, variable in length, 

 sometimes mu>'h longer, sometimes shorter than the body in the J ; 

 third and fourth joints spined posteriorly at the apex, the third 

 joint longer than the fourth. Prothorax oblong-ovate, as a rule 

 distinctly longer than broad and narrower than the elytra, sometimes 

 subglobose and as wide in the middle as the base of the elytra. 

 Elytra more or less elongate, truncate at the apex. Hind femoi'a 

 generally extending some distance past the apex of the elytra in 

 the (S . Eirst joint, of hind tarsi twice, or nearly twice, as long as 

 the second and third united. 



