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fulvous, about half as broad again as long, subcylindrical, the sides 
very slightly rounded, the disc sparingly punctured in the middle, 
the sides nearly impunctate, marked with two narrow longitudinal 
short black stripes from the middle of the anterior margin not 
extending to the base; the stripes have a slight outward direction 
and vary in width and length, being sometimes reduced to two 
small spots. Elytra subcylindrical, scarcely depressed below the 
base, strongly punctate-striate anteriorly, very finely so towards 
the middle, the apex entirely impunctate; the sutural and lateral 
margins, an elongate spot at the middle of the basal margin 
extending to one-fourth the length of the elytra and a roundish 
spot immediately behind the middle, placed in a line with the 
first, black. Underside fulvous, the breast black ; femora with a 
small tooth; the posterior four tibiae strongly emarginate at the 
apex ; claws bifid. Anterior margin of the thoracic episternum 
strongly convex. 
Var, a. Beneath entirely fulvous. 
Yar. b. Thorax with two small spots : elytra with basal 
spots only. 
Yar. c. Entirely fulvous without spots. 
Yar. d. Thorax and elytra black or only the former fulvous. 
Length 2-2 i nun. 
Hab. Southern Bombay : Kanara ; Sumatra. 
This species greatly resembles P. binotata, Jac., from Mexico, 
and cannot easily be distinguished from that species, but the 
posterior spot on the elytra in the present insect is placed lower 
down than in the Mexican form ; the general size of the latter 
is also larger. Mogdiliani also obtained this species in Sumatra. 
It is subject to a great deal of variation ; the black colour of the 
lateral margin of the elytra is often widened at the middle, the 
antemne and the entire upper surface are sometimes entirely 
fulvous. Again, pale flavous specimens without spots occur, as 
well as those in which the entire upper surface is black or the 
black colour may be confined to the elytra. It is one of the most 
variable insects imaginable in regard to colour. 
Genus TRICLIONA. 
Tricliona, Lefev. Pull. Soc. Ent. France, 1 885, p. clxvii ; id. Cat. 
Eumolp. 1885, p. 141. 
Type, T. bifasciata , Lefev., from Sumatra. 
Range. India ; Ceylon ; Sumatra. 
Oblong-ovate ; head inserted ; eyes large, rather closely ap- 
proximate, sinuate along the inner margins ; antennae slender, 
third joint twice as long as the second, terminal seven joints 
thicker. Thorax transverse, sides rounded, anterior and posterior 
angles acute. Legs moderately robust ; anterior femora with a 
strong tooth beneath, the anterior and intermediate femora with 
much smaller teeth ; claws bifid. Principally distinguished by 
the strongly dentate anterior femora. 
