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CERAMBXCID.i:. 



387. Dere affiiiis, sp. n. 



Head, antennae, legs and body beneath (the prothorax excepted) 

 black ; prothorax entirely red ; elytra dark metallic bine. Head 

 someu-hat roughly punctured above, more 

 finely in front. Prothorax somewhat dull, 

 densely rugulose-puuctate. Elytra subnitid, 

 very densely and somewhat asperately punc- 

 tured ; each with two spines at the apex, the 

 outer spine nearly twice as long as the sutural 

 one. Breast and abdomen densely punctate, 

 covered somewhat slightly with dark grey 

 pubescence. Legs snbglabrous and nitid, the 

 hind femora densely punctured, the clavate 

 Bere affuiis Gabau portion of the middle and front femora smooth 

 X f . and almost impunctate ; middle femora feebly 



carinate in front. 

 Length 9 ; breadth 2i mm. 

 ffab. jS^orthern India. 



This species is closely allied to the Chinese D. tJioracica, AVhite, 

 but diifers in the prothorax which is entirely red, and in the elytra 

 which are more strongly spined at the apex. 



388. Dere fulvipennis, sp. n. 



Prothorax and elytra entirely fulvous red; antennae, legs and all 

 the rest of the body black, Prothorax and elytra very closely 

 punctured ; each elytron bispinose at the apex, the outer spine 

 longer than the sutural one. Breast at the sides and the hind 

 femora thickly punctured ; middle and hind femora carinate in 

 front near the lower border. 



Length 9 ; breadth 2^ mm. 



Hab. Southern India. 



389. Dere apicalis, sp. u. 



Head posteriorly and on the middle of the underside, pi'othorax, 

 mesosternum and all except the apex of the elytra fulvous red ; 

 apex of elytra dark brown ; legs, antennae and the rest of the body 

 black. Prothorax not longer than broad, rather strongly rounded 

 at the sides, closely but not very distinctly punctured, dull. 

 Elytra densely punctured, dull, each bispinose at the apex, the 

 outer spine longer than the inner one. Middle femora carinate 

 in front, the hind ones without trace of a carina. 



Length 9; breadth 2^ mm. 



Hab. Ceylon. 



Genus CLEOMENES. 



Cleomenes, Thorns. S;/st. Ceramb. p. 1(31 (18G4); Lacord. Gen, 

 Coleo2)t. ix, p. 101 (1869). 



Type, C. dlammaphoroidcs, Thorns., a species from the Philippine 

 Islands. 



Range. Burma, Java and Philippine Islands. 



