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face forming an acute angle with the upper surface. The pro- 

 iiotum is transverse, very convex, with a longitudinal median 

 groove, which dilates behind the middle into a broad, rather 

 triangular depression. In this, and at the sides and near the 

 hind margin, it is very strongly and closely punctured elsewhere 

 it is scantily punctured and very smooth and shining, with a 

 broad shallow impression on each side before the middle. The 

 lateral margins are sharply serrated, broadly rounded in the 

 posterior half, moderately flattened, and fringed beneath with 

 long and very thick yellow hair, which is conspicuously visible 

 from above. The front femur is armed with a broad angulated 

 lamina ; the tibia is rather smooth and shining in its anterior 

 part, where it is very strongly curved, the extremity being pro- 

 duced into a sharp but not very loug process, barbed just before 

 the tip. Near the middle of the inner edge, at the point where the 

 curvature of the anterior part of the tibia abruptly begins and 

 midway between two of the minute teeth upon the outer edge, 

 there is a longer acute process projecting inwards and upwards. 

 The pygidium is clothed with long and thick yellow hair. 



5 . The head is rugosely punctured, with the clypeus deeply 

 excavated, moderately long, with its front edge nearly straight 

 and sharp-angled on each side. The pronotum is deeply, coarsely 

 and closely punctured, rugosely at the front and sides and in the 

 median channel, with a perfectly smooth shining area towards 

 the base on each side. The pygidium is clothed with long yellow 

 hair on each side. 



Length, 3 , 46-68 mm., $ ,50-57 mm. ; breadth, rf , 25-37 mm., 

 $ , 25-^30 mm. 



SIKKIM : Darjiling (Desyodins), Tukvar (E. A. Holler), Kurseong 

 (Bretdudeau) BHUTAN : Padong (L. Durel) ; ASSAM (according 

 to Hope). 



Type (a female) in the Oxford University Museum. 



399. Propomacms gestroi. (Fig. 77.) 



Cheirotonus gestroi, Pouill., Insecta, 1913, p. 471, figs. 5 d, 6 d. 



Golden green, with the elytra almost black, suffused with a 

 slight metallic lustre and decorated with rather crowded yellow 

 blotches of very irregular shape, the larger ones generally havin 

 a black spot in the centre. It is clothed with long and thick 

 pale yellow hair upon the sternum, the sides of the abdomen and 

 tlie pygidium. 



It is short, very compact and convex in shape. There is a very 

 minute sharp prominence at the middle of the front edge of the 

 pronotum. 



c? . The head is shining and deeply but not closely punctured, 

 with the clypeus deeply excavated, the front angles blunt, the 

 margin nearly straight and the anterior face forming an acute 

 angle with the upper surface. The pronotum is broad and very 

 convex, with a longitudinal groove, which dilates behind the 



