CLYTRASOMA. 
151 
B . Elytra only slightly dilated, opaque. 
5 . Elytra nearly parallel-sided, shining. 
Length 12-14 mm. 
Hah. India : Kashmir ; Punjab ; Bengal ; 
Malabar. 
This species resembles in coloration 
C. palliata, but differs from it in the 
finely rugose head, the slightly dilated 
elytra of the male, and in the nearly free 
fourth joint of the tarsi. The species is 
subject to the same amount of variation as 
C. palliata. In the thorax there is a differ- 
ence in the posterior angles, which instead 
of being rounded are distinct and even 
slightly produced ; the antennae and the 
elytral epipleurte agree with those of C. palliata. 
Fig. 51. 
Clytrasoma conformis. 
266. Clytrasoma ceylonensis, sp. n. 
B . Beneath black, above fulvous ; thorax transverse, with a 
black co-shaped band ; scutellum black ; elytra fulvous, a large 
subquadrate spot at the base, a transverse band at the middle, con- 
nected with the basal spot by a narrow stripe, and another round 
spot near the apex, black. 
Elongate. Head black, finely rugose in front of the eyes, with a 
short central groove ; clypeus with a transverse depression, finely 
rugose on its upper portion, the anterior border rather deeply 
semicircularly emarginate ; antennae with the second and third 
joints fulvous, the following four or five joints black, strongly trans- 
versely pectinate, the rest wanting in the type and only specimen. 
Thorax at least twice as broad as long, the lateral margins feebly 
rounded, narrowly margined, posterior angles obtuse, median lobe 
broadly but not strongly produced, the disc very minutely punc- 
tured. Scutellum black, triangular. Elytra of somewhat irregular 
rugose appearance, closely and distinctly punctured, the base with 
a broad subquadrate spot, not extending to either margin and 
connected posteriorly by a short narrow stripe with the band at 
the middle, this band strongly constricted at the middle portion 
and extended to the sutural and lateral margins ; near the apex 
another roundish black spot ; elytral epipleurm only visible at the 
base. Body beneath and legs black. 
Length 12 mm. 
Hah. Ceylon {Coll. Jacoby). 
This species does not agree either with C. palliata or C. con- 
formis, the thorax is quite differently marked and the sculpture of 
the head and of the elytra is entirely different ; in other respects 
the characters are similar to those of C. conformis. 
