MIOCIlIllA. 
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and another near the middle, close to the suture. Beneath finely 
pubescent. 
Length 5-6 mm. 
Hah. India. 
In a specimen from Bandra in the British Museum, which 
•agrees in most details with Lacordaire’s description, there is an 
additional black spot placed below the humeral and opposite the 
subsutural spot. In a variety mentioned by the author, the latter 
spot is absent and this applies probably also to one or other of 
the remaining markings of the elytra. In the description 
Lacordaire gives the head as pubescent ; in the specimen before 
me this is only the case with the anterior portion. The variety 
with an additional black spot below the shoulders has been 
described by me as Clytra kanaraensis, but cannot be separated. 
I see no reason for placing this species in the African genus 
Melitonoma. 
Miochira, Lacord. Mon. Phytoph. ii, 1848, p. 315 ; Chapuis , Gen. 
Coleopt. x, 1874, p. 123. 
Type, M. gracilis, Lacord., from India. 
Range. Africa ; India. 
Body very elongate and slender, smooth above. Head small, 
ovate, free, not deeply inserted, smooth ; mandibles short ; eyes 
rather large ; antennae somewhat robust, second and third joints 
short, equal, following joints transverse. Thorax with distinct 
posterior angles. Legs short, subequal ; tarsi very short, first 
two joints triangularly reversed, subequal, third small, divided to 
base. 
The narrowly elongate shape and the very short tarsi, which 
are even shorter than in Clytra , are the principal distinguishing 
characters of this genus. 
Fig. 56 . — Clytra fasciatopunctata. 
Genus MIOCHIRA. 
