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black patch. Scutellum black, shining, triangular, its apex 

 emarginate. Elytra broader than the thorax, sides parallel, apex 

 rounded, dehiscent at the suture, above convex, coarsely punctured 

 and covered with coarse pubescence, the puncturation finer and 

 more sparse towards the apex ; each elytron with two transverse 

 bands, abbreviated at the suture and outer margin, one placed 

 before, the other behind the middle. Beneath shining fulvous, 

 two spots on either side of the thorax, the pleurae, a transverse 

 patch on the centre of the abdomen and an ovate spot on the outer 

 surface of the posterior femora, black; hind femora incrassate, 

 ovate, armed at their apices with two acute teeth. 



Length 8 mm. 



Hob. Northern India. 



The one line description of 7-punctata given by Hope probably 

 applies to this species but is useless for identification. His name, 

 therefore, cannot have priority. 



The following species has been omitted as being unidentifiable 

 by the description given : 



Pcecilomorpha nigrocyanea, Motsch. Bull. Mosc. 1866, p,. 406. 

 Ceylon. 



Subfamily II. CLYTBIN^. 



A large subfamily, containing many closely allied genera, 

 and distinguished by the short antennae and their transverse 

 serrate joints. The head is deflexed or perpendicular, the eyes 

 large and oval ; the intermediate space generally depressed, some- 

 times rugose and pubescent. Thorax transverse, as broad at the 

 elytra as at the base. Scutellum triangular. Elytra cylindrical, 

 generally covering the abdomen, sometimes leaving the pygidium 

 free. The anterior coxae rather highly raised and closely 

 approximate, or separated by a very narrow prosternum. The 

 species generally may be recognized by the cylindrical and elongate 

 shape and the coloration, which is usually fulvous above with or 

 without black spots or bands ; sometimes the thorax is black and 

 in many cases the underside also, which latter is always more or 

 less densely pubescent. The structure of the antennae is similar 

 to that of the Chlamydinw and Lamprosomince, but these latter 

 comprise short and generally metallic species of totally different 

 shape. 



This subfamily has been divided into numerous genera and sub- 

 genera by Lacordaire, many of .them founded on male structural 

 characters only and these frequently variable, but no better classifi- 

 cation has been suggested or found practicable and the subfamily 

 Clytrince remains one of the most difficult for a systematic arrange- 

 ment of the numerous forms included in it. 



