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der and extending lo the apical angles as well as a transverse band 

 near the apex which is joined to the latéral one, black; underside 

 and legs black, clothed with yellow pubescence, the abdomen more 

 or less fulvous or entirely black, the tarsi short, the knees sometimes 

 stained with fulvous. 



Llke most species of Clythra the présent one seems subject to 

 great variation in regard to the black markings, as one or other of 

 the elytral spots may be absent and the transverse band only 

 indicated, but the principal character of distinction in the insect are 

 the black markings at the base of the head and the broad dentate 

 band at the sidesofthe elytra which will separate the species from 

 any of its Indian congeners, in a single instance ail the posterior 

 markings are joined, so that the elytra hâve the entire apical half 

 black, this colour being also joined to the latéral band. 



CLYTHRA CARDONI n. sp. 



Fulvous, the head with two black spots, thorax impunctate with 

 two central (sometimes united) black spots, scutellum black, elytra 

 very sparingly and finely punctured, a transverse subquadrate spot 

 at the base and a medially strongly constricted band below the 

 middle, black, breast and the base of the femora more or less black. 



Lenght 5 mill. 



Head impunctate, fulvous, an elongate spot above each eye black, 

 anterior margin of the clypeus semicircularly emarginate, labrum 

 fulvous, antennee not extending to the base of the thorax, fuscous, 

 the lower three or four joints fulvous ; thorax about one half broader 

 than long, the sides nearly straight, the basai margin slightly 

 produced at the middle, the surface entirely impunctate, fulvous, 

 with two partly united small black spots, forming a subtriangular 

 mark, in the centre of the dise, scutellum broad, strongly pointed, 

 black, elytra with a few fine punctures arranged in rows near the 

 suture, the rest of the surface nearly impunctate, fulvous, each 

 elytron with a subquadrate, slightly oblique broad spot, placed 

 immediately below the base and not extending to either margin, and 

 a transverse also slightly oblique band, immediately below the 

 middle and consisting of Iwo spots joined together not quite exten- 

 ding to the suture, black, underside and the legs fulvous, the breast 

 and the base of the femora (sometimes) black. 



A small species, closely allied to C. annamita Lefèv. of which 

 I possess a typical spécimen, but in that insect, the thorax has no 

 central black mark, the elytral anterior spot is of more transverse 

 shape and placed lower and the apex has another small black mark 

 at its extremity; the two spécimens before me show no important 

 difTerences. 



