154 CHBYSOMELID^E. 



band, not extending to either margin, immediately behind the 

 middle ; anterior edge deeply concave, posterior nearly straight. 

 Beneath bluish-black, densely pubescent ; legs robust ; tarsi short 

 and broad. 



Length 6 mm. 



Hob. India : Pondicherry. 



270. Clytra dispar, Redtenb. in HugeFs Kaschm. iv, pt. 2, 1848, p. 560. 

 Clytra trifasciata, Redtenb. t. c. pi. 28, fig. 4. 



Black, clothed with grey silky pubescence beneath : the basal 

 joints of the antennae, the thorax and elytra flavous ; the antennae 

 spotted with black, the elytra with three transverse macular black 

 bands. 



Head closely wrinkled, with a central groove ; the antennae 

 dentate beyond the fourth joint, the second and third joints 

 flavous. Thorax twice as broad as long, the angles rounded, 

 scarcely perceptibly punctured, with an elongate black spot on 

 each side of the base connected posteriorly with another smaller 

 spot in the middle. Scutellum triangular, punctured at the base. 

 Elytra extremely finely punctured, with four black transverse 

 spots, one below the base, angulate, two in the middle sometimes 

 joined into a band, the fourth transversely placed before the 

 apex. In the female the elytral margins are dilated behind the 

 middle. 



Length 6 mm. 



Hab. Kashmir. 



271. Clytra lefevrei, Jac. Ann. Soc. Ent. Bdg. xxxix, 1895, p. 254. 

 Tar. Clytra occipitalis, Jac. t. c. xli, 1897, p. 423. 



Fulvous ; thorax with four or five black spots. Each elytron 

 with six sometimes connected spots (1. 2. 2. 1) ; beneath and the 

 legs spotted with black. 



Of very elongate and narrow parallel-sided 

 shape; the head impunctate, fulvous or with 

 a black spot at the sides of the vertex ; 

 anterior edge of the clypeus semicircularly 

 ernarginate; antenuae not extending to the 

 base of the thorax, the basal four joints 

 fulvous, the others black, the fifth ana fol- 

 lowing joints strongly transversely subquad- 

 rate. Thorax scarcely twice as broad as 

 long, slightly narrowed in front, the sides 

 strongly detiexed, with the margins nearly 

 straight, the posterior margin sinuate at 

 the sides, anterior margin rather strongly 

 produced in front, anterior angles 

 obtuse ; the surface entirely impunctate, fulvous, with four 



