108 Mr. Oliver E. Janson's Additions to 



appendage curving forwards, and towards its extremity narrowed 

 and strongly bent backwards in the form of a sharply pointed hook. 

 Length 26 mm., breadth 12 mm. 



In the female, besides the usual sexual characters, the prothorax 

 is broader in middle than in the male, the pygidium is only feebly 

 bi-nodose, the apex of the abdomen is broadly rounded and the last 

 segment and the apical part of the preceding one have a coarse 

 setigerous puncturation, and the outer apical spine of the hind 

 tibiae is broad and bi-mucronate. 



Rangoon and Penang (Types, (^, $, in coll. Janson). 



This species comes nearest to P. virens, Ritsema, but is 

 smaller and of a much narrower and more parallel-sided 

 form, and has the prothorax more strongly sinuate at the 

 sides. The male differs, moreover, in the form of the 

 appendage of the hind-tibiae, and the female in having 

 the pygidium sulcate and the apical ventral segment of 

 the abdomen rounded, instead of broadly emarginate as 

 it is in virens. 



p. ritsemae is the first PseudochalcotJiea (if kept as distinct 

 from Plectrone) that has been discovered on the mainland, 

 the genus being essentially an insular one, with its head- 

 quarters in North Borneo, and the occurrence of this 

 species at Rangoon brings it just within the limits of the 

 British-Indian fauna. Plectrone tristis, Westw., is recorded 

 by Wallace from Penang. 



Macronota batillifera, Bourg., Bull. Soc. Ent. France, 

 1914, p. 292. 



This is the flavofasciata, Arrow {nee Moser), and is de- 

 scribed by Bourgoin as a distinct species, differing in the 

 structure of the hind-tibiae in the male. It is recorded 

 from Bhutan and Assam. 



The " female " specimen in my collection referred to by 

 Arrow (" Famia Brit. Ind.," Ceton., p. 52) proves upon 

 dissection to be a male, and is the true flavofasciata, Moser, 

 from Tonkin. The females of both species are apparently 

 still unknown. 



Clinteria sternalis, Moser, Deuts. Ent. Zeits., 1910, p. 532. 



This addition to the Indian Fauna would appear, from 

 the description, to come nearest to C. modesta, Blanch., in 

 coloration, but is stated to have the mesosternal process 

 broad and flat, a character not found in any other member 

 of the genus. It comes from Pegu, Lower^^Burma. 



