of tlie Family Lamiidae. 271 



Black, covered (excepting the tubercles of the thorax and 

 the summits of the granules of the elytra) with a dark brown 

 squamositj. Head impunctate. Prothorax acutely spined 

 at the sides, with five tubercles on the disk, of which one 

 (median), much larger than the others, is eraarginate behind 

 and somewhat heart-shaped ; two are placed one on each side 

 in front of this, while the remaining two, quite small and, at 

 first sight, scarcely noticeable, lie one on each side of and 

 close to the large median tubercle, whose free lateral borders 

 overlap and partly conceal them. 



Elytra with four rows of larger and five of smaller granules 

 on each, and in addition a short row of smaller granules on 

 the outer margin of each extending about one third of its 

 length from the base. The sutural row of smaller granules 

 appears double at the base, owing to the presence of a few 

 granules of larger size on each side of the scutellum, and 

 extending in a curve on to the median process of the base. 



Epepeotes unci?iatus, n. sp. (PI. XVI. fig. 2.) 



Niger, viridi-griseo pubescens ; capita at prothorace supra albo tri- 

 vittatis, vitta media prothoracis angusta, evanida; elytris albo 

 bivittatis, nigro raaculatis, apicibus truneatis. 



Long. 14-28 mm., lat. 4|-9 mm. 



Hab. North India. 



Black, with a greyish-green pubescence, which is darker 

 on the head and prothorax. Head with three white vittte on 

 the vertex and one behind the lower lobe of each eye. Thorax 

 with three white vittee above, the middle one narrow and 

 faint, and in some specimens almost entirely absent ; a white 

 vitta on each side just above the coxa, continued on to the 

 sides of the breast. The lateral vittte on the dorsal side of 

 the thorax are continued on to the elytra through their entire 

 length as two more or less distinct white bands ; in some 

 specimens these bands appear as nothing more than lighter 

 portions of the pubescence, passing gradually into the darker 

 shades on each side. 



Elytra with numerous small black spots, apices truncate, 

 the angles not produced. Abdomen with a single row of 

 white spots on each side. Legs and first joint of antennas 

 coloured like the rest of the body ; the remaining joints of the 

 antennaj in the male fuscous, in the female dark grey, with 

 their apices fuscous. Mesosternum feebly tubercled. 



This very distinct species bears, in the British-Museum 

 collection, the manuscript name which I have adopted. 



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