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than the thorax, the second and third joints small, fulvous, 

 following joints transverse. Thorax black, often quite twice as 

 broad as long, the posterior angles rounded, the sides slightly 

 narrowed anteriorly, the surface extremely minutely punctured. 

 Scutellum black, its apex slightly raised and pointed. Elytra 

 subcylindrical, very finely and closely punctured. Body beneath 

 and legs black, closely pubescent, tarsi broad. 



Length 8-12 mm. 



Range. India: Bengal. China; Java. 



A large and abundant species subject, like all the members of 

 the family, to some amount of colour variation, but it may be 

 distinguished by the entirely black thorax; the elytral band is 

 sometimes partly, often entirely interrupted, but extends generally 

 across the entire elytra. 



268. Clytra chlorotica, Lefeo. Bull. Soc. Ent. Bely. xxxv, 1891, p. ccl. 



Elongate, parallel-sided; entirely bright fulvous, clothed with 

 grey pubescence above ; apex of the mandibles black. 



" Head extremely minutely and distantly punctured, feebly de- 

 pressed between the eyes ; labrum, palpi and antennae fulvous. 

 Thorax twice as broad as long, nearly straight at the sides, the 

 posterior angles rounded, the surface very smooth, the median 

 lobe moderately produced, slightly punctured. Scutellum large, 

 smooth, its apex acute. Elytra impunctate. Legs short." 



''Length 10 mm." (Lefevre.) 



Hob. India. 



No specimen has come under my observation. 



269. Clytra flavotibialis, Jac. Ann. Soc. Ent. Bdg. xlvii, 1903, p. 84. 



Metallic dark greenish-blue ; basal joints of antennae, tibiae and 

 tarsi flavous ; elytra fulvous, a round spot before the middle and 

 a transverse band behind the latter, metallic greenish. 



Head very finely transversely and lon- 

 gitudinally strigose and punctured, tri- 

 angularly depressed between the eyes, 

 these very elongate, slightly notched at the 

 inner margin ; labrum fulvous ; antenna? 

 black, basal four joints flavous, fourth 

 anc ^ following joints transverse and 

 strongly widened. Thorax rather more 

 than twice as broad as long, sides strongly 

 rounded, with distinct reflexed narrow 

 margins, median lobe feebly rounded, 

 jl ' Si ^^^W ^ surface impunctate, very shining. Scu- 



j.^,, 53 tellum dark blue. Elytra elongate 



Clytra flavotibialis. and parallel -sided, finely and irre- 

 gularly punctured, a rounded spot 

 below base between the shoulders and suture and a transverse 



