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surface strongly convex and deflexed at the sides, entirely impunc- 

 tate,theposteriormargin3inaateateachside,slightly produced at the 

 middle, scutellum fulvous, raised and pointed at the apex; elytra not 

 wider at the base than the thorax, slightly lobed ad the sides below 

 the shoulders, black, shining, with some minute punctures arranged 

 in irregiilar rovvs, the apex narrowly flavous, legs elongate, fulvous, 

 the first joint of the tarsi scarcely longer than the second one, 

 anterior legs longer than the others. 



The female has shorter antennae, a narrow head and thorax and 

 less elongate legs. 



The antennse of the maie in this species are more elongate than is 

 usually. 



The case in most other gênera of Clythrinœ but the rounded 

 posterior margin of the thorax, slight elytral basai lobe and the 

 elongate legs seem to place the insect best in Damia Lac. 



GLYTHRA OGCIPITALIS n. sp. 



Black, above fulvous, vertex of the head with black spots, thorax 

 with three or four black markings, impunctate, elytra extremely 

 minutely punctured, a spot on the shoulder, another below the 

 base, a band at the sides of irregular shape, the apex and a trans- 

 verse band below the middle, black. 



Var. a. The latéral elytral band interrupted, the transverse band 

 absent or indicated by a spot only. 



Var. h» Thorax with four black spots, elytra with the apical 

 portion and the sides black. 



Length 4-5 mill. 



Head impunctate, fulvous, the sides above the eyes occupied by 

 broad black bands which sometimes unité at the vertex, the anterior 

 edge of the clypeus but slightly emarginate, labrum and palpi 

 fulvous, mandibles black, antennse extending to the base of the 

 thorax, black, the lower four or fîve joints fulvous, the terminal 

 joints very strongly transversely serrate, thorax transversely convex, 

 rather more than twice as broad as long, the sides rather feebly 

 rounded, narrowly marginale, the angles distinct, the posterior 

 margin sinuate at each side, the basai lobe very slightly produced 

 at the middle, the surface impunctate, with three black spots placed 

 transversely, the middle one in shape of an V, or with four small 

 black spots of which the latéral ones are the largest, scutellum 

 triangular, black or fulvous margined with black; elytra parallel 

 and elongate, very finely punctured in irregular longitudinal rows 

 only distinct near the suture, a spot on the shoulder another one 

 below the base before the middle, and a broad band, the inner 

 margin of which is deeply bisinuate, commencing below the shoul- 



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