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and another near the middle, close to the suture. Beneath finely 

 puhescent. 



Length 5-6 mm. 



Hub. India. 



Fig. 56. Clytra fasciatopunctata. 



In a specimen from Bandra in the British Museum, which 

 agrees in most details with Lacordaire's description, there is an 

 additional black spot placed below the humeral and opposite the 

 subsutural spot. In a variety mentioned by the author, the latter 

 spot is absent and this applies probably also to one or other of 

 the remaining markings of the elytra. In the description 

 Lacordaire gives the head as pubescent ; in the specimen before 

 me this is only the case with the anterior portion. The variety 

 with an additional black spot below the shoulders has been 

 described by me as Clytra kanaraensis, but cannot be separated. 

 I see no reason for placing this species in the African genus 

 Melitonoma. 



Genus MIOCHIRA. 



Miochira, Lacord. Mon. Phytoph. ii, 1848, p. 315; Chapuis, Gen. 

 CoUopt. x, 1874, p. 123. 



Type, M. gracilis, Lacord., from India. 



Range. Africa ; India. 



Body very elongate and slender, smooth above. Head small, 

 ovate, free, not deeply inserted, smooth ; mandibles short ; eyes 

 rather large ; antennae somewhat robust, second and third joints 

 short, equal, following joints transverse. Thorax with distinct 

 posterior angles. Legs short, subequal ; tarsi very short, first 

 two joints triangularly reversed, subequal, third small, divided to 

 base. 



The narrowly elongate shape and the very short tarsi, which 

 are even shorter than in Clytra, are the principal distinguishing 

 characters of this genus. 



