CLYTRA. 
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spots placed transversely at the middle, the outer ones 
much larger than the others ; another small spot is sometimes 
placed in front of the scutellum. Scutellum triangular, strongly 
pointed, fulvous or black. Elytra fulvous, impunetate or with 
some extremely fine punctures at the base ; each elytron with 
six black spots, one on shoulders, two larger ones, transversely 
shaped, before the middle (the outer one close to margin), two 
similar spots behind the middle, and a subapical, narrow, trans- 
verse, slightly curved spot or short band. Sides of breast and 
abdomen, part of femora, apex of tibiae, and the tarsi more or lesa 
black ; first joint of the tarsi slightly longer than the second. 
Length 3-51 mm. 
Bah. Bengal ; S. Bombay ; Ivanara ; Nilgiris ; Malabar. 
An extremely variable species, narrowly elongate in shape ; the 
head generally with a black band or spot in front of the eyes. 
The elytra with the spots free or connected, extending sometimes 
to the apex in the form of a band, preceded by another transverse 
band ; the thorax with four spots placed transversely, or only one 
spot near the posterior angles (an extra central one sometimes at 
base). In a single small male from Mahe the head and thorax 
are entirely unspotted, but the elytra have the typical six spots 
the spots are very variable and in some forms resemble those of 
Miochira gracilis, Lacord. It is possible that this latter specimen 
is only one of the many varieties of C. lefevrei. 
272. elytra insularis, Lefev. Bull Soc. Ent. France , 1883, p. exxi. 
Head and the underside greenish-black, densely clothed with 
flavous pubescence ; above obscure rufo-testaceous ; thorax with 
a large basal patch and a spot in the middle black ; elytra with a 
broad transverse band behind the middle, a humeral and an 
apical spot black ; femora blackish ; tibiae and tarsi fulvous. 
Head distinctly triangularly depressed between the eyes, rugose, 
clothed with fiavous pubescence near the eyes, the vertex convex, 
smooth ; antennae black, the base fulvous. Thorax smooth. 
Elytra remotely and finely punctured, with a broad transverse 
band behind the middle and two black spots (one transverse 
below the shoulders, not extending to the suture, the other small 
at the apex). Tarsi more or less fulvous. 
Var. Thorax and elytra without spots. 
Length 6|-7 mm. 
Bab. Andaman Islands. 
273. Clytra duvivieri, sp. n. 
Above flavous, beneath black. Elytra with broad transverse 
bluish band near apex. 
