212 CEEAMBYCIDa:. 



sixth less deeply emarginate ; fifth in the $ rounded and entire 

 at the apex. 



Length 20-22 ; breadth 4|-5 mm. 



Hob. Southern India : Kilgiri Hills ; Assam : Xaga Hills 

 (Doherty'), Khasi Hills ; Manipur (Doherty} ; China. 



234. Chelidonium cinctum, Guer. (CaUichroma) Icon. Regne Anim., 

 Ins. p. 220(1844). 



Structurally and in colour very like 0. argentatum, Dalm., but 

 differs from that species as follows : The elytra marked each 

 between the base and the middle with a yellow band of irregular 

 form, the band transverse on the inner half of the elytron and 

 prolonged a little posteriorly near its outer side. Head impressed 

 with a transverse line between the front and clypeus. Pronotum 

 transversely rugulose or striate at the sides ; with a median 

 subnitid band which extends almost from base to apex, and is 

 sparsely punctured posteriorly, nearly smooth in front ; and, at 

 each side of this band, a darker area which is finely and somewhat 

 intricately rugulose. Scutellum nitid, with the edges slightly 

 raised posteriorly. Elytra rugulose anteriorly near the suture, 

 elsewhere very densely punctulate ; the yellow bands clothed with 

 yellowish or tawny pubescence, and with the parts bordering on 

 them blackish in colour. 



Length 21-26 mm. 



Hab. Southern India : Nilgiri Hills. 



235. Chelidoniiun sinense, Hope (Promeces), Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond. 

 1841, p. 63 ; id. Trans. Ent. Soc. iv, p. 17 (184o) ; Gahan (Leon- 

 tium), Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, xxxiv, p. 17 (1894). 



Form and coloration of C. argentatum Dalm., a species with 

 which it had been for a long time confounded, but from which it 

 differs as follows : AntennaB with joints seventh to tenth sharply 

 angulate or dentate at the apex on the anterior side, not spined 

 as in argentatum ; last ventral segment of the $ with a distinct 

 emargination at the apex. The head is rather finely punctate on 

 the front, the clypeus more coarsely punctate and somewhat 

 transversely rugulose, and there is no smooth space between the 

 clypeus and front. The prothorax is distinctly rugulose and glossy 

 at the sides and base and along the median line ; the dark opaque 

 area along each side of the middle line is generally well-marked 

 and more distinct than it is in argentatum. The first joint of the 

 hind tarsus is almost or quite as long as the remaining joints 

 united. The elytra are obtusely rounded at the apex. 



Length 20-27 ; breadth 4|-6 mm. 



Hab. Sikhim : Mungphu (Atkinson} ; Manipur (Doherty} ; 

 Burma : Karenee (Fea) ; China. 



