CIOTNJJELA. 



415 



perceptibly sculptured, with a white linear patch at the shoulders, 

 sometimes dilated at the base and touching the scutellum, an 



oblique linear patch sloping from 

 right to left at middle, and a 

 longitudinal or broad comma- 

 shaped spot before the apex ; legs 

 dark, more or less cyaneous, tro- 

 chanters black ; underside vio- 

 laceous, with the sides of the 

 abdomen, except apical segments, 

 and of the metasternum proper, 

 thickly pubescent ; episterna of 

 the prosternum bare, of the meta- 

 sternum almost bare, with a few 

 setae at the sides. 



Length 15-20 millim. 

 Ceylon : Trincomali, AVella- 

 waya (E. E. Green). 



Fig. 179. — Oicindcla ceylonensis 

 var. diversa. 



Var. diversa, W. Horn. 



This variety has the central 

 linear patch on the elytra broader 

 and less oblique and the hinder 

 patch larger and more produced towards the centre : the 

 anterior linear patch is also more curved. It apparently occurs 

 with the type-form. Only the figure is given by Dr. Horn and 

 a reference without description on page 4, no. 31, /. e. 

 Ceylon : Damboolla. 



Group 21. 



Pronotum with the sides furnished with very distinct seta?, 

 which, in fresh specimens, spread more or less over the disc ; 

 gense more or less strongly pubescent * ; sides of underside 

 thickly clothed with pubescence, which is villose or tomentose ; 

 episterna of metasternum nearly covered, or partly bare. Three 

 species are included in this section, two with the elytra black with 

 a number of conspicuous white spots and markings, and the other 

 with the elytra dark with yellowish linear patches. 



Key to the Species. 

 I. Elytra black with white markings: 

 pubescence clear white, thick and 

 tomentose. 

 i. Length lo|-17 mm.; pronotum 

 quadrate, broader; elytral spots 

 more regular and more numerous ; 

 episterna of metasternum abruptly 



bare on their inner side vigintiguttata, Herbst, p. 416. 



* Except in the quite recently described C. lefroyi, W. Horn, which is 

 apparently closely allied to C. vittigera and is found in cumpany with it ; it 

 should perhaps be referred to another section. 



