PSEUDOBEEA. 



24b 



them. Antennae long, slender, sparsely hairy, passing considerably 

 beyond the middle of the body ; first segment long, club-shaped, 

 second small, rounded, third, fourth, and fifth almost equal to each 

 other; from the sixth onwards the segments become slightly 

 shorter and opaque. Proihoraoc somewhat broader than long, but 

 appearing as though quadrate, slightly narrowed at the base and 

 broadening about the middle, where the sides are rounded, 

 front and basal margins almost straight, anterior angles acute, 

 posterior obtuse; surface convex, smooth and impunctate; at the 

 base, within the hind angle on either side, is a very deep, short, 

 longitudinal impression, and lying transversely along the middle 

 between the two longitudinal impressions is a very deep depression, 

 which contains two large pits and deeply impressed punctures, some 

 of which latter coalesce. Scutellum broad, ovate, smooth and im- 

 punctate. Elytra broader at base than prothorax, with humeri 

 elevated, convex, and impunctate ; each elvtron has a scutellar 

 row of a few widely separated punctures and ten more regular 

 rows, distributed as follows : first a single sutural row, then eight 

 rows, more or less arranged in four pairs, and, lastly, a row along 

 the extreme margin ; interstices flat, the third and fifth, counting 

 from the suture, slightly broader ; there are a few stray punctures 

 on the interstices, and the rows converge towards the apex. 

 Underside thinly covered with bristly hairs ; claws appendiculate. 



Length, 9| mm.; breadth, 4 mm. 



Bengal. 



Type in the British Museum. 



176. Pseudodera bifasciata, Jacoby. 



Pseudodera bifasciata, Jac, Ann. JVIus. Civ. Genova, xxvii, 1889, 

 p. 200. 



Body elongate, parallel-sided. Colour brown ; head and antennae 

 darker brown, the latter sometimes piceous ; elytra black at the 

 base, with a broad pale brown band, occupying the middle and 

 extending to the sides, and an apical black band, which is broader 

 than the basal black band (sometimes the elytra are entirely 

 brown); underside pale brown. 



Head impunctate ; frontal elevations very strongly developed, 

 divided by a longitudinal impression. Antennas long and thin, 

 extending to the apex of the elytra ; the third and following 

 segments curved, the apex of each being strongly thickened. 

 Prothorax subquadrate, broader than long, sides strongly rounded 

 at the middle; surface somewhat convex, impunctate, the ante- 

 basal impression deep and bounded on each side by an equally 

 deep longitudinal impression, these longitudinal impressions being 

 strongly punctate. Scutellum broad, ovate. Elytra finely punctate- 

 striate, the longitudinal rows being arranged in pairs. 



The entirely fulvous specimens can be differentiated by their 

 thin antennas from the genotype, P. xanihospila, which they 

 •otherwise resemble. 



