strongly raised in front, rather densely asperate and very faintly 

 pubescent ; the sides clothed with pubescence of a pale golden 

 colour. Elytra narrowed from the base to the middle, approximate 

 at the suture only in the anterior sixth of their length ; each less 

 than half as broad at the middle as at the base, narrow and of 

 almost equal width from the middle up to about one-seventh of its 

 length from the apex, then widened slightly, acuminate and ended 

 in a sharp spine at the apex ; the surface rather densely asperate- 

 punctate, the punctures denser on the dark ante-median spot and 

 posterior band. Sides of breast and abdomen with pale golden 

 pubescence mixed with longer grey hairs. 



Length 20 ; breadth 4| mm. 



Hob. Tenasserim : Tavoy (Doherty). 



Group GLYTINI. 



Head short, vertical or subvertical in front ; gense generally 

 rather long ; eyes finely facetted, emarginate ; mandibles short ; 

 palpi short, subequal, the last joint more or less triangular. Pro- 

 thorax usually unarmed at the sides, varying in form from globular 

 to cylindrical. Scutellum generally small. Front coxae globular, 

 as a rule not prominent ; their acetabula rounded on the outer 

 side, open posteriorly. Acetabula of middle coxoa open to the 

 epimera. Hind legs generally long, the first joint of the tarsus 

 much longer as a rule than the second and third .united ; spurs of 

 hind tibiae long. Tarsal claws widely divergent. The episterna 

 of the metathorax generally rather broad, but in some forms more 

 or less considerably overlapped by the sides of the elytra. 



In this group I include the Clylides and Anaglyptides of Lacor- 

 daire, together with the genus Demonax of Thomson. Lacordaire's 

 restriction of the group, on the one hand, to forms in which the 

 antenna? are at most only a little longer than the body in the c? , 

 and, on the other, to those in which the first joint of the hind 

 tarsi is distinctly longer than the next two joints united, is one 

 which cannot be maintained. Within the group there is a regular 

 gradation in the length of the antennae from forms in which these 

 organs are less than half the length of the body to others in which 

 they are more than twice as long as the body ; and so also in regard 

 to the hind tarsi, the first joint is in some forms scarcely longer 

 than the second, in others more than three times as long as the- 

 second and third united, while between the two extremes there is 

 almost every intermediate degree. On account of the gradual 

 modifications not only in these but in many other points of struc- 

 ture, the genera cannot be defined with any great amount of 

 precision. In fact there is something to be said in favour of 

 those entomologists who describe each new species of the group as a 

 Clytus. The chief objection to this course is that, unless the 

 structural characters are given somewhat in detail, it becomes 

 quite impossible to identify the species. 



