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and fourth joints spined at the apex. Prothorax scarcely longer 

 than broad, almost parallel-sided in the anterior seven-eighths of 

 its length, narrowed at the base, the surface reticulate-punctate. 

 Elytra less than three times as long as broad, transversely trun- 

 cate at apex. Legs slender ; hind femora extend by about one- 

 fourth of their length past the apex of the elytra in the tf , by one- 

 fifth in the $ . First joint of hind tarsi more than twice as long 

 as the second and third united. 



Length 6|-7 ; breadth 1| mm. 



Hob. Burma : Karen Mts. (DoJierty). 



II. Lateral margins of elytra more or less distinctly sinuate in the 

 middle ; episterna of metathorax appear narrowed in front. 



A. Antennal spines very short. 



357. Demonax bicinctus, Hope (Clytus), Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 28 



(1831). 



Head black, thickly covered with ashy-grey pubescence ; pro- 

 thorax ferruginous red, narrowly bordered with white at the base 

 on each side ; scuteilum black ; base of elytra testaceous-yellow, 

 the rest dark brown, marked with three bands of ashy-white 

 pubescence the first band begins at the suture a little behind the 

 scutellum, runs obliquely backwards and outwards to the side 

 and is there slightly bent forwards ; the second band crosses 

 transversely a little behind the middle, is gradually widened 

 towards and a little produced in front at the suture ; the third 

 band is placed at the apex ; breast and abdomen black ; the 

 episterna of the meso- and metathorax, the hind border of the 

 metasternum, and a posterior band on each of the first two 

 abdominal segments white. Antennae about as long as the body 

 in the <5 , shorter in the $ ; third and fourth joints obsoletely 

 spined at the apex. Prothorax subglobose, scarcely longer than 

 its width across the middle, densely rugulose-punctate. Sides of 

 the elytra extend downwards near the base, the metathoracic 

 episterna appear very narrow in front and wider behind. Hind 

 femora extend well beyond the apex of the elytra. First joint 

 of hind tarsi slightly longer than the remaining joints united. 



Length 11-12 ; breadth 3 mm. 



Hob. Nepal. 



358. Demonax dimidiatus, Chew. (Rhaphuma) Mem. Soc. R. Sci. de 



Liege, xviii, p. 279 (1863). 



Black, rather closely covered with short dark grey pubescence ; 

 elytra marked each with a paler, elongate, ashy-grey spot, sur- 

 rounded by some glabrous black patches near the base, with a 

 lateral pubescent black spot at about one-fourth from the apex. 

 Body beneath dark grey, the episterna of the mesothorax, the 

 sides of the metathorax and first three abdominal segments ashy 



