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CIIRYSOMELimE. 
black patch. Scutellum black, shining, triangular, its apex 
emarginate. Elytra broader than the thorax, sides parallel, apex 
rounded, dehiscent at the suture, above convex, coarsely punctured 
and covered with coarse pubescence, the puncturation fiuer and 
more sparse towards the apex ; each elytron with two transverse 
bands, abbreviated at the suture and outer margin, one placed 
before, the other behind the middle. Beneath shining fulvous, 
two spots on either side of the thorax, the pleurae, a transverse 
patch on the centre of the abdomen and an ovate spot on the outer 
surface of the posterior femora, black ; hind femora incrassate, 
ovate, armed at their apices with two acute teeth. 
Length 8 mm. 
Hah. Northern India. 
The one line description of 7 -punctata given by Hope probably 
applies to this species but is useless for identification. His name, 
therefore, cannot have priority. 
The following species has been omitted as being unidentifiable 
by the description given : — 
Poecilomorpha nigrocyanea, Motsch. Bull. Mosc. 1866, p. 406. 
Ceylon. 
Subfamily II. CLYTEINH]. 
A large subfamily, containing many closely allied genera, 
and distinguished by the short antennae and their transverse 
serrate joints. The head is deflexed or perpendicular, the eyes 
large and oval ; the intermediate space generally depressed, some- 
times rugose and pubescent. Thorax transverse, as broad at the 
elytra as at the base. Scutellum triangular. Elytra cylindrical, 
generally covering the abdomen, sometimes leaving the pygidium 
free. The anterior coxae rather highly raised and closely 
approximate, or separated by a very narrow prosternum. The 
species generally may be recognized by the cylindrical and elongate 
shape and the coloration, which is usually fulvous above with or 
without black spots or bands ; sometimes the thorax is black and 
in many cases the underside also, which latter is always more or 
less densely pubescent. The structure of the antennte is similar 
to that of the Chlamyclinw and Lamprosomince, but these latter 
comprise short and generally metallic species of totally different 
shape. 
This subfamily has been divided into numerous genera and sub- 
genera by Lacordaire, many of them founded on male structural 
characters only and these frequently variable, but no better classifi- 
cation has been suggested or found practicable and the subfamily 
Clytrince remains one of the most difficult for a systematic arrange- 
ment of the numerous forms included in it. 
