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CHRYSOMEUDjE. 



279. Miochira gracilis, Lacord. Mon. Phytoph. ii, 1848, p. 316. 



Pale flavous, beneath testaceous ; breast and legs spotted with 

 black ; a band in front of the eyes, two spots on the thorax and 

 four on the elytra, black. 



" c? . Elongate and cylindrical ; head and thorax very shining, 



the former smooth ; clypeus feebly emarginate ; mandibles black ; 



eyes rather large, short and ovate, with a 



black spot near their inner margin ; antennae 



\^ / nearly as long as thorax, brownish, base 



\j||| & fulvous. Thorax about one-fourth broader 

 / \ + vr t ' ian ^ On 8' c y^ n( lrical, narrowed in front, 



anterior margin slightly produced at middle ; 

 median lobe very short, posterior angles 

 distinct ; surface entirely impunctate ; two 

 triangular, rather large, closely approximate 

 spots on the disc. Scutellum smooth, black. 

 Elytra subcylindrical, very finely punctured, 

 the punctures piceous and superficial, the 

 spots placed obliquely, the first two near 

 base, the others slightly behind the middle ; 

 humeral spot elongate, others small and 

 round ; pygidium with a large black spot. 

 Legs slender, fulvous ; base of femora, apex of tibiae and first two 

 joints of tarsi black ; latter very short, rather robust, first two 

 joints trigonal and equal." (Lacordaire.) 

 Length 5 mm. 

 Hob. Sikhim ; Assam ; Burma. 



Fig. 57. 

 Miochira gracilis. 



280. Miochira montana, Jac. (Clvthra) Ann. Soc. Ent. Edg. xxxix, 

 1895, p. 25.5. 



Black. Thorax flavous, with a central black patch. Elytra 

 fulvous, a large trigonal or subquadrate spot at base, a transverse 

 band behind the middle and the extreme apex black. 



Narrow and elongate ; the head very finely and sparingly 

 punctured, black, shining, obsoletely transversely grooved between 

 the eyes ; the clypeus also with an obsolete 

 depression at each side ; labrum flavous ; 

 antennae black, extending to the base of the 

 thorax, the basal four joints flavous, fifth and 

 following joints strongly transverse. Thorax 

 about one-half broader than long, the sides 

 obliquely narrowed in front, somewhat an- 

 gulately widened behind the middle, the 

 surface very minutely punctured, the middle 

 occupied by a broad longitudinal black band 

 from the base to the apex, slightly con- 

 stricted at apex. Scutellum black, its apex 

 pointed. Elytra very finely punctured in 



Fig. 58. 

 Miochira montana. 



