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CHRYSOMELIOiE. 
band, not extending to either margin, immediately behind the 
middle ; anterior edge deeply concave, posterior nearly straight. 
Beneath bluish-black, densely pubescent ; legs robust ; tarsi short 
and broad. 
Length 6 mm. 
Ilccb. India : Pondicherry. 
270. Clytra dispar, Redtenb. in Hugel's Kaschm. iv, pt. 2, 1848, p. 560. 
Clytra trifasciata, Redtenb. t. c. pi. 28, fig. 4. 
Black, clothed with grey silky pubescence beneath ; the basal 
joints of the antennae, the thorax and elytra flavous ; the antennae 
spotted with black, the elytra with three transverse macular black 
bands. 
Head closely wrinkled, with a central groove ; the antennae 
dentate beyond the fourth joint, the second and third joints 
flavous. Thorax twice as broad as long, the angles rounded, 
scarcely perceptibly punctured, with an elongate black spot on 
each side of the base connected posteriorly with another smaller 
spot in the middle. Scutellum triangular, punctured at the base. 
Elytra extremely finely punctured, with four black transverse 
spots, one below the base, angulate, two in the middle sometimes 
joined into a band, the fourth transversely placed before the 
apex. In the female the elytral margins are dilated behind the 
middle. 
Length 6 mm. 
Hah. Kashmir. 
271. Clytra lefevrei, Jac. Ann. Soc. Rut. Belg. xxxix, 1895, p. 254. 
Var. Clytra occipitalis, Jac. t. c. xli, 1897, p. 423. 
Eulvous ; thorax with four or five black spots. Each elytron 
with six sometimes connected spots (1.2. 2.1); beneath and the 
legs spotted with black. 
Of very elongate and narrow parallel-sided 
shape; the head impunctate, fulvous or with 
a black spot at the sides of the vertex ; 
anterior edge of the clypeus semicircularly 
emarginate; antennae not extending to the 
base of the thorax, the basal four joints 
fulvous, the others black, the fifth ana fol- 
lowing joints strongly transversely subquad- 
rate. Thorax scarcely twice as broad as 
long, slightly narrowed in front, the sides 
strongly detiexed, with the margins nearly 
straight, the posterior margin sinuate at 
the sides, anterior margin rather strongly 
produced in front, anterior angles 
obtuse ; the surface entirely impunctate, fulvous, with four 
Fig. 54. 
Clytra lefevrei. 
