PENTAMESA. 



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

 small, thicker than third, fourth somewhat longer than third; 

 from the fifth the segments are somewhat thickened. Proihorax 

 broader than long, sides rounded and margined, anterior lateral 

 angles thickened ; surface thickly punctate with deeply impressed 

 as well as comparatively finer punctures ; the lateral yellow-brown 

 areas appear to be slightly raised. Scutellum small, triangular, 

 with apex rounded and surface impunctate. Elytra hardly broader 

 at base than prothorax ; surface confusedly, closely, and thickly 

 punctate, the punctures on the brownish-yellow patches less 

 strong and close than on the black parts of the surface ; along 

 the margin is a raised impunctate strip enclosed between two 

 rows of punctures. Underside covered with fine hairs. Legs as 

 in the description of the genus. 

 Length, 4| mm. 



Sikkim : Mungphu (Atkinson). 



Type in the British Museum. Described from one example. 



210. Pentamesa cribellata, Weise. 



Pentamesa cribellata, Weise, Deutsch. Ent. Zeitschr. 1895, p. 335. 



Head brown. Prothorax and elytra black ; along each lateral 

 margin of the pronotum is a reddish-brown stripe, which is gently 

 broadened in front and has a longitudinal dark streak before the 

 middle; there are two other reddish -brown patches on the pro- 

 notum, a half-oval patch in the middle of the front margin, and 

 a transverse streak bordering the base in front of the scutellum. 

 The black colour of the elytra has a bluish shimmer, and on each 

 elytron there are six yellow-brown patches : the first, at the base, 

 is transverse, extending from the middle to the lateral margin 

 but narrowed outwardly through the elevation of the humerus ; 

 the second and third, strongty transverse, lie side by side before 

 the middle, the former extending to the lateral margin- and the 

 latter to the suture ; the fourth and fifth patches do not lie side 

 by side, though they are postmedian, the former, roughly tri- 

 angular in shape, is situated on the lateral margin, while the fifth, 

 which is four-sided and twice as broad as long, is situated in- 

 wardly and a little more in front ; the distance between the 

 fifth patch and the suture is short; the sixth patch is round 

 and near the apex of the elytron. Breast and abdomen black. 

 Epipleura brown. 



Head with front finely rugulose-punctate, frontal tubercles 

 and interautennal elevation pubescent. Protliorax : upper side 

 strongly, closely, and uniformly punctate. Elytra strongly, closely, 

 and confusedly punctate, much as is the pronotum ; along the 

 lateral margin is a raised strip, somewhat broader in front and 

 extending to the apical yellow-brown patch ; the surface of the 

 yellow-brown patches is as closely punctate as the black back- 

 ground. 



