CLYTRASOMA. 
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262. Pantocometis horni, Weise, Detit. ent. Zeit. 1903, p. 27. 
Obscure yellowish-brown; elytra each, with four spots (1.2.1); 
beneath testaceous. 
Head, thorax and scutellum densely punctured ; clypeus tri- 
angular, bounded at the sides by a shallow fovea and by a larger 
one between the eyes ; antennae rather stout, transversely serrate 
and darkened from the fourth joint. Elytra strongly punctured ; 
the first black spot near the lateral margins, elongate, reaching 
from base to near the middle across the shoulders, second and 
third spots small, round, placed transversely at two-thirds the 
length of the elytra, fourth spot near the hind margin, transverse, 
sometimes prolonged at the margin as far as the third spot. 
Length 4-5 mm. 
Hah. Ceylon : Anuradhapura. 
The pubescence of the head and thorax is short and thin, slightly 
erect, whitish in colour with longer stiff black hairs intermixed. 
263. Pantocometis downesi, Baly (C'lythra-Pantocometis), Trans. 
Ent. Soc. Bond. (3) ii, 1865, p. 333. 
Metallic greenish-blue ; sides of thorax narrowly flavous ; elytra 
fulvous with a transverse blue band behind the middle. 
d . Head exserted ; prolonged below the eyes ; mandibles pro- 
duced, strongly lobed within ; face rugose. Thorax transverse, 
sides rounded, converging anteriorly, disc rather deeply trans- 
versely excavate, subremotely punctured and sparingly pubescent. 
Elytra distinctly subremotely punctured, clothed with erect 
pubescence. Anterior legs very elongate. 
2 . Head short, not prolonged below eyes, mandibles short, 
face smooth ; base of thorax rounded at the sides, disc less 
distinctly excavate. Anterior legs not elongate. 
Length, $ 8, $ 7 mm. 
Hal. Bombay. 
Genus CLYTRASOMA, nov. 
General characters of Clytrci but the sexes dissimilar. Antennae 
in the male very strongly transversely pectinate, as in some 
Lamellicornia ; the clypeus not separated from the face ; elytra 
much widened in the middle ; in the male the epipleurae entirely 
absent below the base. 
This genus is proposed for the reception of Clytra palliata, Eabr., 
which it is impossible to leave in Clytra , in which the sexes are 
similar ; the great differences in the structure of the antennae and 
in the absence of elytral epipleurae from below the shoulders 
justify this separation. In the female the shape of the elytra is 
normal, and the antennae are less strongly pectinate or serrate. 
In this genus there seems also to be an absence of stridulating 
organs, which are found in Clytra on the mesonotum (Gahan, 
Trans. Ent. Soc. 1900, p. 444). 
