107 



each spine, and two abbreviated in the middle ; scuteUum with deep 

 yellow hairs; elytra at the base scabrous, with small tubercles and 



with a few patches of deep yellow bain ; OU each elytron i- ;i large 

 triangular deep velvety brown mark, the fore-edge with a transverse 

 white line, thickened at the end next to tin- margin, behind edged 

 with pale, and the space between the spot and the tin Bomewnal 

 ochraceous, varied with brownish; legs and under ride brown, with 

 distant scattered greyish hairs. 



Length 1 1 lines. 



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



MONOHAMMUS MELANOSTICTICUS, n. S. 



M. pallido cinereo-viridis ; articulis antennannn apice futcu . 



ehjtris singulis lineis sex transversis macular)' i/i nig raw tn. 



Thickly covered with pale ashy-green pubescence, the antennae at 

 the apex brownish ; a black spot on the cheek to the side of the 

 eye; the thorax with three black spots placed transversely ; elytra 

 rounded at the apex, each with six transverse rows of small squarish 

 black spots, the base somewhat tubercled and punctured. Under 

 side and legs covered with pale ashy-green pubescence ; the nieso- 

 thorax with a blackish spot on each side. 



Length 7.7 to 8^ lines. 



IJab. N.India. Coll. Brit. Mus. 



MoNOHAMMUS GEORGIUS, 11. S. 



M. cinereo-fuscus, sericeus ; cupite inter antennas Jisso, antennia 

 subochraceis, articulis apice fuscis ; thurace lineis qnatuor ub- 

 scuri.s longitudinalibus ochraceis, sulci* duobus trannereie ; 

 scutellu ochraceo in medio linea Icevi ; elytria apice rotundatw, 

 basi tuberculatis, singulis costis quatuor obscuri.i, sjiatiis M '•/• 

 costas jtinictdtis, et variegatis nigro et ochraceo ; fascia trans- 

 versa quatuor guttarutn oehracearum ante apicem ,• apice 

 ochraceo maculato et sublineato, abdomine sublux, Intrre sin- 

 gulo, lineis duabus macularum. 



Of an ashy-brown, the elytra with a silky pile ; head between the 

 antennae cleft; behind the cleft two oehreous bands; antennae 

 ochreous, the joints at the tip brown ; thorax black, varied with 

 oehreous and with four rather obscure ochreous bands, two in the 

 middle and one on each side over the spine, with two transverse 

 shallow grooves ; scutellum ochreous, with a smooth line down the 

 middle; elytra at the base tuberculated, each with four indi-tinct 

 costae, the space between punctured and varied with small ochreoui 

 spots and a few velvet-like black spots ; between the middle an. I 

 the tip there is an arcuated transverse line formed of three or four 

 longish oehreous spots; the front of each has a velvet-like Mack 

 spot; near the tip, where the coatee con v e rge ami are hneated with 

 ochreous, there is n hooked range of small oehreous ipotfl often con- 



