252 



HALTICIN.TI. 



Type of Xanthocycla chapuisii in the British Museum. On the 

 label attached to this type Baly wrote " Laos," but in the published 

 description he wrote " India," probably under the misapprehension 

 that Laos was in India. 



Genus CLITEA, Baly. 

 Clitea, Baly, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1877, p. 287. 

 Genotype, Clitea picta, Baly. 



Body elongate-ovate, oblong and, compared to that of Amjphi- 

 mela, not strongly convex. Head broad, without frontal tubercles, 

 interantennal space broad, eyes distant, antennae short. Prothorax 

 convex, its entire surface covered with larger and much smaller 

 punctures ; sides rounded and narrowly margined, at the anterior 

 angles the margin is expanded and the edge of the expanded 

 portion may be convex or nearly straight in outline; basal margin 

 sinuate, slightly produced in the middle. Scuiellum sharply 

 triangular and impunctate. Elytra hardly broader at base than 

 prothorax, parallel-sided, punctate-strhite ; besides bearing the 

 rows of punctures the whole surface is closely covered with 

 minute punctures (granulate); interstices generally flat, in some 

 •cases some of them may be slightly convex, and the distances 

 between the rows of punctures also differ. Underside : abdominal 

 sternites minutely and sparsely punctate ; anterior coxal cavities 

 closed behind ; posterior femora much thickened ; claws appen- 

 diculate. 



Range. India, Burma. 



Key to the Species. 



Insect red-brown with black patches C. picta, Baly, p. 252. 



Insect greenish-aeneous on the upper side and 



yellow-brown beneath C. indica, Jac, p. 254. 



180. Clitea picta, Baly. 



Clitea picta, Baly, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1877, p. 287 ; Duviv., 

 Ann. Soc. EntI Belg. xxxvi, 1892, p. 422 ; Jac, Ann. Mus. Civ. 

 Genova, xxviii, 1889, p. 204. 



Body oblong-ovate. Colour reddish-brown, with the following 

 black patches : a large patch covering the whole of the pronotum 

 except the sides ; continuous with the pronotal patch there is a 

 large patch on the basal part of the elytra, covering the humeral 

 callus, whence its boundary extends obliquely across the disc ; 

 besides this, on each elytron, there are a broad post-median and 

 an apical patch ; the thickened posterior femora are black. 



Head broad, densely punctate. Antennae short, passing a little 

 distance beyond the base of the pronotum, first segment club- 

 shaped, second thicker and shorter than third, which is slender 

 and equal to the fourth in length ; from the fifth onwards the 



