CLYTOCEEA. 279 



333. Rhaphuma elegantula, sp. n. 



Black ; glabrous and nitid above ; the elytra marked with pubes- 

 cent white spots and bands as follows : a small indistinct ashy- 

 white spot at each side of the scutellum, a small snow-white spot 

 on the disc of each elytron at about one-fourth from the base, a 

 narrow transverse snow-white band a little behind the middle, and 

 a narrow ashy-white band at the apex ; body beneath black covered 

 in part with grey pubescence, with spots of dense white pubes- 

 cence on the sides of the mesothorax, metathorax and first 

 abdominal segment. Antennae extend to the apical third of the 

 elytra ; third joint more than twice as long as the first ; fourth 

 and fifth subequal, united not much longer than the third. Pro- 

 thorax rather strongly rounded at the side?, narrowed at the base, 

 strongly and somewhat roughly punctured. Elytra very glossy, 

 less strongly and somewhat sparsely punctate ; truncate at the 

 apex, feebly denticulate at the angles. Episterna of metathorax 

 strongly overlapped in front by the sides of the elytra. Legs 

 pitch-black, nitid ; hind femora very sparsely punctate, extending 

 by about a fourth of their length past the apex of the elytra. 

 First joint of hind tarsus twice as long as the second and third 

 united. 



Length 5-6: breadth Ij-lj mm. 



Bab. Nilgiri Hills (H. L. Andrewes). 



Genus CLYTOCERA, gen. nov. 



Type, C. chionospila, sp. n. 



Range. Southern India. 



Narrow and elongate in form. Head with the antennal supports 

 distinctly raised so as to form a prominent ridge, rather broadly 

 concave in the middle, between the antennae. Antennae one- 

 third longer than the body in the <$ ; second joint longer than 

 broad; third and following joints slightly compressed, successively 

 narrower, each almost equally broad throughout its length ; fourth 

 scarcely shorter than the third. Prothorax ovate-oblong, widest 

 behind the middle ; front margin slightly rounded. Elytra 

 truncate at the apex ; the lateral margins nearly straight. Epi- 

 sterna of metathorax narrowed considerably at the apex, the inner 

 border rather strongly curved posteriorly. Legs long ; coxae 

 prominent ; femora subpedunculate at base, fusiform -clavate to- 

 wards the apex, the hind pair extending far beyond the apex of 

 the elytra in the d ; first joint of hind tarsus almost three times 

 as long as the next two united. 



From Rhaphuma, Pasc., to which it comes nearest in general 

 form and structure, this new genus differs as follows : the antennal 

 supports more prominently raised and more divergent, the femora 

 more strongly thickened, and the metathoracic episterna curved 

 at the inner border and considerably narrowed posteriorly* 



