404 



lour brown spots, sometimes obsolete ; antennae with the joints from 

 the third to the end tipped with brown ; thorax above with three 

 pale vittee, the sides of which are jagged ; on each side of the cen- 

 tral one, before the middle, there is a small round dot ; the lateral 

 spine is sometimes surrounded by the side vitta ; the scutellum has 

 the side margins pale ; the elytra are somewhat tuberculated at the 

 base ; there is a large pale squarish patch on the side of each elytron 

 before the middle, and several small scattered spots besides ; there is 

 a largish pale spot behind the middle, and two others between it and 

 the tip, but these spots vary in the specimen, and sometimes run 

 into each other ; under side rather paler than the upper : each seg- 

 ment of the abdomen has a small brown spot on the side. 



Length 9-13 lines. 



Hab. E. Indies {Walter Elliott, Esq.). Coll. Brit. Mus. 



Cerosterna tessellata, n. s. 



C. ochracea, sericea, antennarum articulo basali nigro ; thorace 

 supra vittis duabus nigris distantibus strigaque nigra laterali, 

 elytris nigro macidisque ochraceis variegatis, scutello et spatio 

 triangulari ad basim communi sutures ochraceo, elytris singulis 

 maculis tribus magnis subrotundis ochraceis ; pedibus corpo- 

 reque subtus ochraceis. 



Ochreous yellow, sometimes of a lighter, sometimes of a darker hue ; 

 ht ad yellow, with a black mark behind the eye, connected with a 

 waved streak to the side of it ; thorax above with two distant lon- 

 gitudinal vittee, widest in the middle ; each side with a narrow black 

 streak running through the spines ; scutellum and a triangular space 

 behind it at the base of the suture yellow ; each of the elytra varied 

 with black and with small yellow spots, the tip yellow ; there are 

 three largish somewhat round yellow spots, one placed before the 

 middle of each elytron, the second behind the middle, and the third 

 before the tip and received into a notch of the yellow space ; legs 

 and under side yellow, femora slightly tipped with black ; antennae 

 with the basal joint black, the other joints yellowish ferruginous ; 

 most of the joints tipped with dark brown. 



Length from 7f to 9^ lines. 



Hab. E. Indies. Coll. Brit. Mus. 



Cerosterna imitator, n. s. 



C. nigra, antennarum articulis apice basique cinereo annulatis ; 

 thoracis dorso supra maculis quatuor subochraceis ; elytris 

 singulis basi Icevibus, maculis paucis depressis pilis subochraceis 

 tectis ; corpore lateribus subtus plagis magnis subochraceis 

 ornato ; pedibus pube ccerulescenti tectis. 



A species allied to C. farinosa, but may at once be distinguished 

 from it by the following characters : — the front of the head is slightly 

 marked with white, a short white band on each side close to the eye ; 

 the lower part of the cheek has a patch of short ochrey-coloured 

 hairs ; the joints of the antennae, beginning with the third, are nar- 



