CLTTBASOMA. 149 



262. Pantocometis horni, Weise, Deut. ent. Zeit. 1903, p. 27. 



Obscure yellowish-brown ; elytra each with four spots (1.2.1); 

 beneath testaceous. 



Head, thorax and scutellum densely punctured ; clypeus tri- 

 angular, bounded at the sides by a shallow fovea and by a larger 

 one between the eyes ; antennae rather stout, transversely serrate 

 and darkened from the fourth joint. Elytra strongly punctured ; 

 the first black spot near the lateral margins, elongate, reaching 

 from base to near the middle across the shoulders, second and 

 third spots small, round, placed transversely at two-thirds the 

 length of the elytra, fourth spot near the hind margin, transverse, 

 sometimes prolonged at the margin as far as the third spot. 



Length 4-5 mm. 



Hab. Ceylon : Anuradhapura. 



The pubescence of the head and thorax is short and thin, slightly 

 erect, whitish in colour with longer stiff black hairs intermixed. 



263. Pantocometis downesi, Baly (Clythra-Pantocometis), Trans. 



Ent. Soc. Land. (3) ii, 1865, p. 333. 



Metallic greenish-blue ; sides of thorax narrowly flavous ; elytra 

 fulvous with a transverse blue band behind the middle. 



tf . Head exserted ; prolonged below the eyes ; mandibles pro- 

 duced, strongly lobed within ; face rugose. Thorax transverse, 

 sides rounded, converging anteriorly, disc rather deeply trans- 

 versely excavate, subremotely punctured and sparingly pubescent. 

 Elytra distinctly subremotely punctured, clothed with erect 

 pubescence. Anterior legs very elongate. 



$ . Head short, not prolonged below eyes, mandibles short, 

 face smooth ; base of thorax rounded at the sides, disc less 

 distinctly excavate. Anterior legs not elongate. 



Length, <$ 8, $ 7 mm. 



Hab. Bombay. 



Genus CLYTKASOMA, nov. 



General characters of Clytra but the sexes dissimilar. Antennae 

 in the male very strongly transversely pectinate, as in some 

 Lamellicornia ; the clypeus not separated from the face ; elytra 

 much widened in the middle ; in the male the epipleurse entirely 

 absent below the base. 



This genus is proposed for the reception of Clytra palliata, Fabr., 

 which it is impossible to leave in Clytra, in which the sexes are 

 similar ; the great differences in the structure of the antennae and 

 in the absence of elytral epipleurze from below the shoulders 

 justify this separation. In the female the shape of the elytra is 

 normal, and the antennae are less strongly pectinate or serrate. 



In this genus there seems also to be an absence of stridulating 

 organs, which are found in Clytra on the mesonotnm (Gahan, 

 Trans. Ent. Soc. 1900, p. 444). 



