282 CEEAMBTCID.E. 



feebly spined posteriorly at the apex. Prothorax oblong-ovate, 

 widest behiud the middle, narrowed at base. Legs reddish brown, 

 faintly covered with grey pubescence ; hind femora extend by 

 nearly one-tliird of their length past the apex of the elytra. 



Length 16 ; breadth 3^ mm. 



Hah. India. 



336. Demonax balyi, Pascoe (C'lytus), Trans. Ent. Soc. (•>) V, p. 27 



(1859) ; id. (Elezira) Trans. Ent. Soc. (3) iii, p. 637 (1869). 



Reddish testaceous above ; elytra clothed with yellowish-tawnv 

 pubescence, marked each ^^■ith three tomentose black spots — one at 

 the middle, one midway between the middle and the apex, the 

 third and largest also between the middle and the apex, but placed 

 a little nearer to the apex. Body beneath, with the exception 

 sometimes of the prosternum, black ; marked \^"ith spots and 

 bands of white pubescence. Antennae and legs testaceous ; the 

 apical part of the hind femora and more or less of the hind tibias 

 also dark brown ; the middle femora sometimes more or less 

 infuscate towards the apex. Head spai-sely clothed with yellowish 

 pubescence. Antennse longer than the body in the male, a little 

 shorter than the body in the female ; joints third and fourth with 

 a very small inconspicuous spine at the hinder apical angle. 

 Prothorax closely granulate-punctate, faintly pubescent, marked 

 with a narrow white band at the base on each side ; the disc with 

 three very feeble obtuse ridges, ^^•hich are slightly nitid and a little 

 more strongly punctate than the rest of the surface. 



Length 8-11 ; breadth 2-3 mm. 



Hah. Southern India: Nilgiri and Auaimalai Hills. 



337. Demonax monticola, sp, n. 



Testaceous red ; head sparsely j^ubesceut ; prothorax slightly 

 suffused with dark brown at the sides, covered with tawny pubes- 

 cence, narrowly bordered with pale yellow at each side of the 

 base. Elytra covered with tawny-yellow pubescence, each marked 

 with three dark brown bands — the first, placed at rather less than 

 a third from the base, runs somewhat transversely from near the 

 outer margin to the middle of the disc and then obliquely forwards 

 towards the suture ; tlie second, placed at the middle, takes a similar 

 course to the first but reaches the suture and extends along it in 

 front ; the third crosses straight from the outer margin to the 

 suture at about one-third from the apex ; the areas included between 

 these dark brown bands are of a somewhat brighter yellow colour 

 than are the apical and basal parts of the elytra. Body beneath 

 testaceous, faintly pubescent, with denser, yellowish-white spots 

 on the episterna of the meso- and metathorax and at the sides of 

 the first two abdominal segments. Antennae slightly longer than 

 the body in c? , third and fourth joints very minutely spined at 

 apex. Prothorax oblong-ovate. Elytra feebly quadridentate at 



