SAGRA. 



extending to middle of elytra, terminal joint very elongate. 

 Head very finely punctured. Thorax subquadrate, sides concave, 

 anterior angles prominent but blunt, surface rather closely 

 and strongly punctured. Elytra subquadrately ovate, deeply 



depressed below base and 

 within shoulders behind basal 

 margin, the latter raised into 

 an acute ridge ; entire surface 

 finely punctate-striate, inter- 

 stices finely aciculate and 

 wrinkled. J . Posterior 

 femora strongly thickened at 

 middle, not much extending 

 beyond elytra, upper edge 

 strongly convex, lower with 

 two teeth near apex and a 

 dense patch of yellow tornen- 

 tose hairs ; posterior tibiae 

 with a long tooth near apex, 

 the latter strongly mucronate; 

 intermediate tibiae very 

 strongly curved. $ .Smaller, 

 posterior femora short, less 

 incrassate, a dentate ridge below, tibiae simple. 

 Length 11-12 mm. 



Hob. Burma : Eangoon ; extending to Siam, China, and Japan. 

 I have included this species as a single specimen from Eangoon 

 in Burma is in my collection. I have however, seen no other 

 specimens from that or from other parts of India. In the variety 

 pygmea the tibiae have no tooth. The comparatively small size, 

 colour, and the large tomentose femoral patch serve to distinguish 

 this species. In some specimens the first tibial tooth is pro- 

 longed into a long process. 



Fig. 2. Sagra petelii. 



Subfamily II. DONACIIN^E. 



Elongate and narrow, more or less metallic, beneath strongly 

 pubescent ; the species resemble certain Longicorn beetles and 

 live on water-plants. Antennae more closely approximate at base 

 than in the subfamilies Criocerince or Sayrince, filiform ; eyes round 

 and entire ; elytra punctured in rows ; anterior coxae nearly 

 touching ; basal segment of abdomen as long as or longer than 

 following joints united ; claws simple. 



These insects agree with the Sayrince in the elongate basal 

 segment of the abdomen, but the prosternum does not separate 

 the coxae as in that group and the body beneath is clothed with 

 short silvery pubescence. The posterior femora are frequently 

 toothed. A single genus. 



