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opaque. Underside and legs clothed with long silvery pubescence ; 
tarsi rather robust, first joint scarcely tw ice as long as second, 
triangularly widened. 
6 . Elytra with two spots below base and transverse band 
behind the middle, not extending to margins, black. Thorax and 
legs black. 
Var. Elytra entirely fulvous. 
Length 51-61 mm. 
Hob. Nilgiris ( Card . Downing). 
The peculiar finely wrinkled and opaque elytra differ from those 
of any other species of the genus. Which of the forms, the one 
with spotted or the one with the unspotted elytra, is the normal one 
caunot be decided at present for lack of material. Of the male 
only a single specimen is before me ; of the female there are four 
unspotted and one spotted examples, in all these the legs are 
entirely black. 
Elytra with transverse bands. 
229. iEtheomorpha virgula, sp. n. 
Pale fulvous ; terminal joints of antennae, the breast and the 
pygidium blackish ; elytra with a spot near the scutellum and a 
transverse band near the apex black, the latter strongly widened 
near the outer margins. 
In shape elongate, posteriorly slightly widened. Head impunctate, 
with three small foveae placed triangularly ; antenna) extending to 
the base of the elytra, the basal four joints flavous, the rest nearly 
black ; third and following joints transverse. Thorax about twice 
as broad as long, slightly narrowed anteriorly ; posterior angles 
distinct, the sides nearly straight, the surface entirely impunctate, 
without any depressions ; median lobe very slightly produced, 
perfectly straight. Scutellum broadly triangular, smooth. Elytra 
strongly punctured in very closely arranged irregular rows : they 
do not cover the pygidium but have distinct humeral lobes ; a 
round spot near the scutellum and a posterior band black, the 
latter abruptly and strongly widened at the sides extends 
upwards along the lateral margins as far as the middle. Abdomen 
strongly swollen, finely pubescent, fulvous or black ; the pygidium 
of the latter colour in the dark specimens. 
Var. Elytral spot absent, body beneath black. 
Length 4 I mm. 
Hah. Northern India. Type in Brit. Mus. 
230. iEtheomorpha pictipennis, Jac. (Gynandroplithalma) Ann. Mus. 
Civ. Genova, xxxii, 1892, p. 883. 
Eulvous ; base of head and terminal joints of antennae black"; 
thorax with four black spots ; elytra with a sinuate transverse 
band at base, another behind the middle and the lateral and apical 
margins, black. 
Short and broadly ovate ; head with a few minute punctures 
between eyes ; clypeus fulvous ; antennae not extending to base 
