CLYTBASOMA. 151 



. Elytra only slightly dilated, opaque. 



$ . Elytra nearly parallel-sided, shining. 

 Length 12-14 mm. 



Hob. India : Kashmir ; Punjab ; Bengal ; 

 Malabar. 



This species resembles in coloration 

 C. palliata, but differs from it in the 

 finely rugose head, the slightly dilated 

 elytra of the male, and in the nearly free 

 fourth joint of the tarsi. The species is 

 subject to the same amount of variation as 

 C. palliata. In the thorax there is a differ- 

 Fio . 51 ence in the posterior angles, which instead 



Clytrasoma cmif&rmis. f being rounded are distinct and even 

 slightly produced ; the antennae and the 

 elytral epipleurae agree with those of C, palliata. 



266. Clytrasoma ceylonensis, sp. n. 



<5 Beneath black, above fulvous ; thorax transverse, with a 

 black co-shaped band ; scutellum black ; elytra fulvous, a large 

 subquadrate spot at the base, a transverse band at the middle, con- 

 nected with the basal spot by a narrow stripe, and another round 

 spot near the apex, black. 



Elongate. Head black, finely rugose in front of the eyes, with a 

 short central groove ; clypeus with a transverse depression, finely 

 rugose on its upper portion, the anterior border rather deeply 

 semicircularly emarginate ; antenn with the second and third 

 joints fulvous, the following four or five joints black, strongly trans- 

 versely pectinate, the rest wanting in the type and only specimen. 

 Thorax at least twice as broad as long, the lateral margins feebly 

 rounded, narrowly margined, posterior angles obtuse, median lobe 

 broadly but not strongly produced, the disc very minutely punc- 

 tured. Scutellum black, triangular. Elytra of somewhat irregular 

 rugose appearance, closely and distinctly punctured, the base with 

 a broad subquadrate spot, not extending to either margin and 

 connected posteriorly by a short narrow stripe with the band at 

 the middle, this band strongly constricted at the middle portion 

 and extended to the sutural and lateral margins ; near the apex 

 another roundish black spot ; elytral epipleura? only visible at the 

 base. Body beneath and legs black. 



Length 12 mm. 



Hob. Ceylon (Coll. Jacoby). 



This species does not agree either with C. palliata or C. con- 

 formis, the thorax is quite differently marked and the sculpture of 

 the head and of the elytra is entirely different ; in other respects 

 the characters are similar to those of C. conformis. 



