50 LIST OF CLERID^E. 



beyond the angled yellow spot; tip of elytra of a pale yellow. 

 Under side of abdomen pitch brown ; terminal segment paler. 

 The whole insect is covered with longish pale ochraceous hairs. 

 Length 4 lines. 



Hab. Brazil. Coll. Miers. 



XYLOBIUS ALBO-VARIUS Westw. 



Elongated, slender, of a dark steel-blue colour, densely punctured. 

 Head between the eyes of a silky^ white. Prothorax with a 

 frontal band, and two spots on the sides behind of a silky white. 

 Elytra with two lunules at the base and seven spots, the third 

 larger than the rest and common to both elytra, of a silky 

 white ; tips truncated. Antennae very short, and with the legs 

 fulvous. 



Length 5 lines. 



Hab. E. Indies (Himalaya). 



SYSTENODERES DASYTOIDES Westw. n. s. 



Elytra of a dark metallic green with yellowish reflexions, thickly 

 punctured, thickened at the suture. Head and front of thorax 

 black, rest of thorax red ; in some specimens the whole of the 

 thorax is black. Antennae, legs, and under parts black. The 

 whole insect is rough with greyish and blackish hairs and 

 bristles. Thorax wider than long. 



Length 2 } lines. 

 Hab. Mexico. 



CYMATODERA PULCHELLA, n. s. 



Yellow. Head keeled down the centre. Thorax with seven warts 

 on the back, six of them placed in two longitudinal parallel lines, 

 the seventh between the lines, and connected, but indistinctly, 

 with the middle wart of each line ; the sides of the thorax 

 gibbous on each side. Elytra with a black spot at the base in 

 the middle, from which proceeds a short black line ; about the 

 middle a widish black band, narrowed towards the suture, and 

 not reaching the lateral margin. Surface of elytra rather finely 

 and irregularly punctured, and furnished with several hairs. 

 Legs, antennae, and under side pale yellow. 



Length 2 lines. 

 Hab. Columbia. 



