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spots placed transversely at the middle, the outer 

 much larger than the others ; another small spot is sometimes 

 placed in front of the scutellum. Scutellum triangular, strongly 

 pointed, fulvous or black. Elytra fulvous, impunctate or with 

 some extremely fine punctures at the base ; each elytron with 

 six black spots, one on shoulders, two larger ones, transversely 

 shaped, before the middle (the outer one close to margin), two 

 similar spots behind the middle, and a subapical, narrow, trans- 

 verse, slightly curved spot or short band. Sides of breast and 

 abdomen, part of femora, apex of tibiae, and the tarsi more or less^ 

 black ; first joint of the tarsi slightly longer than the second. 



Length 3-5 1 mm. 



Hob. Bengal ; S. Bombay ; Kanara ; Nilgiris ; Malabar. 



An extremely variable species, narrowly elongate in shape ; the 

 head generally with a black band or spot in front of the eyes. 

 The elytra with the spots free or connected, extending sometimes 

 to the apex in the form of a band, preceded by another transverse 

 band ; the thorax with four spots placed transversely, or only one 

 spot near the posterior angles (an extra central one sometimes at 

 base). In a single small male from Mahe the head and thorax 

 are entirely unspotted, but the elytra have the typical six spots ; 

 the spots are very variable and in some forms resemble those of 

 Miochira gracilis, Lacord. It is possible that this latter specimen 

 is only one of the many varieties of 0. lefevrei. 



272. Clytra insularis, Lefev. Bull. Soc. Ent. France, 1883, p. cxxi. 



Head and the underside greenish-black, densely clothed with, 

 flavous pubescence ; above obscure rufo-testaceous ; thorax with 

 a large basal patch and a spot in the middle black ; elytra with a 

 broad transverse band behind the middle, a humeral and an 

 apical spot black ; femora blackish ; tibiae and tarsi fulvous. 



Head distinctly triangularly depressed between the eyes, rugose, 

 clothed with flavous pubescence near the eyes, the vertex convex, 

 smooth ; antennae black, the base fulvous. Thorax smooth. 

 Elytra remotely and finely punctured, with a broad transverse 

 band behind the middle and two black spots (one transverse 

 below the shoulders, not extending to the suture, the other small 

 at the apex). Tarsi more or less fulvous. 



Far. Thorax and elytra without spots. 



Length 6|-7 mm. 



Hab. Andaman Islands. 



273. Clytra dnvivieri, sp. n. 



Above flavous, beneath black. Elytra with broad transverse- 

 bluish band near apex. 



