CALOCLTTUS. 269 



apex. Body beneath black, covered with a faint grey pubescence ; 

 the epistema of the rneso- and metathorax, two transverse bands 

 on the metasternum and a band on each side of the first two seg- 

 ments of the abdomen covered densely with white pubescence. 

 Legs black, with grey pubescence ; femora not carinate ; first joint 

 of hind tarsus not so long as the remaining joints united. 



Length 10-15; breadth 3-4 mm. 



Hab. Ceylon. 



314. CaloclytllS ludens, Gahan, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, xxxiv, p. 25, 



pi. 1, fig. 5 (1894). 



Eather long and narrow ; black ; head and prothorax faintly 

 covered with greyish pubescence, prothorax with a narrow band of 

 ashy-white pubescence at the base ; scutellum ashy grey ; elytra 

 black, banded with ashy-grey pubescence ; the first band transverse 

 at the base ; the second begins at the suture just behind the scu- 

 tellum, diverges slightly from the suture as it passes back some 

 distance, then curves outwards and slightly forwards, stopping 

 short on the side without reaching the outer margin ; the third 

 band, placed just behind the middle, is somewhat triangular in form 

 with its apex anteriorly at the suture; the fourth is a broad trans- 

 verse band at the apex ; body beneath covered with pubescence, 

 which is grey in the middle, whitish on the sides of the breast and 

 abdomen. Antennas piceous, covered with greyish pubescence, 

 reaching about to the apical fourth of the elytra in the $ . Pro- 

 thorax subcylindrical, much longer than broad, slightly rounded at 

 the sides. Elytra truncate at the apex, the outer angles shortly 

 spined. First joint of the hind tarsus about equal in length to 

 the remaining joints united. 



Length 11 mm. 



Hab. Tenasserim : Thagata (Fea). 



315. Caloclytus assimilis, Hope (Clytus), Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 28 



(1831). 



Black, densely covered with yellow pubescence, greenish-yellow 

 above, of a somewhat whitish-yellow tint below ; prothorax with 

 three rather small, round, black spots, one on the middle of the 

 disc, and one at each side visible from above ; elytra marked each 

 with two, or (?) one, brownish-black spot at the base, a rounded 

 spot at the middle and another placed about midway between this 

 and the apex ; body beneath entirely covered with yellowish 

 pubescence. Antennas black, covered to some extent with greyish 

 pubescence, and extended to the middle of the elytra ; third joint 

 longer than the first or the fourth ; fourth and fifth subequal ; sixth 

 and seventh subequal, each shorter than the fifth ; eighth to tenth 

 shorter each than the seventh. Legs black, covered with grey 

 pubescence ; femora not carinate, the hind pair extend to the apex 

 of the elytra. 



