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silky, the colour varying according to the light, but bordered obliquely 

 in front by a narrow line of straw-yellow, which ascends parallel to the 

 suture for a short distance towards the scutellum ; legs long, slender, 

 compressed ; body beneath reddish brown, the abdomen black. Length 

 7 lines. 



A handsome and remarkable species, and not to be assimilated to 

 any other known to me. In outline only it may be compared to 

 C. tlwraacus ; but there the femora are clavate. 



Sect. Antennae subclavaeformes, breves. Prothorax globosus. 

 Femora clavata. 



Clytus stenothyreus. 

 C. niger ; prothorace albo maculato ; scutello angustato, albo piloso ; 

 elytris planatis, pubescentibus, marginibus apiceque infuscatis ; femori- 

 bus runs. 

 Hub. Batchian. 



Head short, subtriangular in front, roughly punctured, black, with 

 two white hairy stripes between the eyes and antennae ; eyes rather 

 large, pale fulvous ; antennae black, subclaviform, half the length of the 

 body; prothorax nearly globose, wider than the head, roughly punc- 

 tured, black, a line at the side and eleven spots on the disk composed 

 of white hail's ; scutellum elongate, narrowly triangular, densely covered 

 with white hairs ; elytra scarcely as broad at the base as the prothorax, 

 then gradually narrowing to the apex, which is truncate, with the outer 

 angle acute, nearly flat above, and, but slightly, bent in at the sides, 

 pale fulvous, darker towards the apex and along the exterior margin, 

 and very sparsely pubescent ; femora short, moderately clavate, yellow- 

 ish red, tibiae and tarsi dark brown ; body beneath black, the abdomen 

 glossy, with the two basal segments and sides of the metasternum bor- 

 dered with white. Length 4 lines. 



I am unable to compare this well-marked species with any other 

 known to me. The flat elytra very imperfectly covering the abdo- 

 men, and in some degree the habit, suggest an affinity, or rather an 

 analogy, with Stenoptems, TJiranius, &c. 



Sect. Antennae lineares, breves. Prothorax globosus vel subglobosus. 



Clytus deterrens. 

 C. niger ; prothorace brunneo-rufo ; elytris macula subbasali fasciisque 



duabus, una pone medium, altera apicali, albis. 

 Hah. South Africa (N'Gami). 



Head short, transverse in front, black, rather sparsely covered with 

 short white hairs; prothorax globoso-ovate, brownish red, with scattered 

 white hairs ; scutellum small, transverse, rounded behind ; elytra sub- 

 truncate at the apex, black, closely covered with short hairs, a round 



