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elytri9, pygiJii -, flavis ; capite crebre punctato, uiilice profuiKle 

 oxciso ; prothorace laxe punctato, transverse, latcribus medio 

 angulatis, ])ostice I'ero parallelis ; clytris punctato-striatis, apioo 

 paulo spinosis ; pytjidio crebre punctato, brevilcr llavo-setoso ; 

 tibiis anticis acute bidentatis. 

 Long. 18 miu. 



Ilab. Nicobav Is. 



Sooty black or piceous black, with the head, legs, and 

 underside shining, decorated with yellow spots distributed as 

 follows : — a pair upon the vertex of the iiead, a pair at the 

 middle and three at each lateral margin of the pronotum, the 

 two posterior ones sometimes uniting; three placed in an 

 oblique line upon the anterior half of each elytron, two ad- 

 joining tlie suture posteriorly, and four adjoining the lateral 

 margin, and a large patch at each side of the pygidium. 

 There are also patches uj)on the mesosternal epimera and the 

 sides of the sternum and abdomen. The head is thickly 

 ])unctured, with the clypeus long and deeply notched in front. 

 The prothorax is very transverse, distinctly but not densely 

 punctured all over, with the sides strongly angulated in the 

 middle, and nearly parallel from there to the base, which is 

 strongly emarginate before the scutellum. The scutellum is 

 rather narrow. The elytra are parallel-sided, |)unctate-striate, 

 ^^ith tlie sntural angles rather spinose. The mesosternal 

 process is moderately prominent, nearly circular, and not 

 much dilated at the end. The metasternum is rugose at the 

 sides and the abdomen sparsely punctured. The iFront tibiae 

 are bidentate in both sexes. The pygidium is pubescent in 

 two female specimens in the Britisli .Museum collection, but 

 in a male in the Calcutta Museum labelled (no doubt 

 wrongly) " Rangoon '^ the setae are scarcely visible. The 

 yellow markings in that specimen are also of a deeper colour. 



CUnteria truncata, sp. n. 



Nigra vel obscure cuprea, opaca, capite, pedibus corporcque subtus 

 nitidis, prothoracis lateribus anguste tlavo-marginatis, elytrorum 

 niaculis 2 vel 4 miimlis post medium transverse positis, apicalique 

 minuta, pygidii maculis duabus sat magnis ; depressa, sat 

 parallela, postice parum atteuuata ; capite elongato, dense sat 

 rcgulariter punctato, antice valde exciso ; prothorace subtiliter 

 punctato, postice fortiter sat acute lobato ; elytrie grosse seriato- 

 punctatis, costis duabus distinctis ; processu sternali valido, 

 conico, acuminato, abdomine medio glabro. 



Long. IS-l*? mm. 



J lab. S. India, Nilgiri Hills. 



lilatk or very dark coppery, velvety and opaque above. 



