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line with two short bands on the vertex of the head; elytra each with 
a marginal and oe band, an interrupted line of small spots near 
the suture and a few spots scattered elswhere. Body underneath 
pubescent like the cea -— i sides of the prothorax in their lower 
rt, the side pieces of the mesosternum, and two narrow bands at 
each side of the a num, » being luteous white; legs bm -grey, 
with the tarsi dark-bro Antenne about equal i in length to the 
body ; fourth joint slightly thickened, dark-brown in colour, the other 
joints greyish-tawny or bro Prothorax feebly and very sparsely 
punctate, the elytra a little m more re strongly and less sparsely punctured. 
Length 14, breadth 5 millim. 
Hasrrat.—Selangor : Ba кин 3,500 ft. (Н. C. сера : 
: і 
allied to Phénbse, Pasc. аі us, Thoms, and Atossa, Thoms., 
two genera for which Lacordaire formed a special group—the Atossides, 
are also closely related to it, differing only in having the head narrower 
usually destitute of an apical cicatrix or cari The cicatrix is, how- 
ever, present, though very small and ill- defined, in Atossa atomaria, 
Pasc., and in one or two other species 
ATOSSA SPILOTA, sp. nov. 
(Pl. VI. Fig. 13.) 
Head, d оа body underneath and legs densely covered Xu 
greyish pubescence of a somewhat dark shade, becoming lighter 1 
places, ЖАЫ on the front and sides of the head, and the efe 
borders of the tibie ; head and prothorax marked with two diverging 
^ х di 
passing obliquely above the shoulder of the elytron; elytra covered. 
less densely with brown pubescence, thickly dotted with small irregular 
white spots from the base to a little past the middle, this do tted area 
bci limited behind by а narrow broken white band or line of spots ; 
h elytron marked also with a strongly oblique and slightly curved 
white band between the middle and the apex, with some scattered 
Length 11-12, breadth 8—5 di 
HanrrAr.—Perak (Doherty); Selangor: Bukit Kutu, 3,500 ft. 
(Н. C. Robinson). 
"This species closely resembles Atossa lint Pase. КОО 
in markings and differs very little from it in structure. In ligata th 
