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testaceous, the leg-s black, the posterior pair blue, the pjgidium and apical 

 portion of the abdomen often rufous in $, in some specimens metallic as in J; 

 very finely pubescent, the prothorax with a dense oblong or subquadrate patch 

 of adpressed, white squamiform hairs at the base, extending forwards along 

 the disc and backwards over the scutellum and the basal portion of the ehtral 

 suture, the lateral margins of the prothorax and the sides of the body beneatli 

 also thicivly clothed with similar squamiform hairs, the general vestiture of the 

 elytra closer on the inner than on the outer half of the disc, that on the pygi- 

 dium and under surface cinereous. Head densely, finely punctate ; eyes large ; 

 antennae (<^) long, widening outward, joints 6-11 rather broad, 6-10 longer 

 than wide, ($) shorter, joints 6-10 about as long as broad. Prothorax about 

 as i.ong as broad, subcampanulate, strongly dilated posteriorly and narrow in 

 front, densely, rugulosely punctured, deeply bisinuate at the base. Elytra 

 moderately long, rounded at the sides behind the humeri, separately rounded 

 at the tip ; sharply, finely striate, the striae impressed with conspicuous oval 

 punctures which become much finer towards the apex, the interstices almost 

 flat, densely, transversely rugulose. Pygidium large, densely punctulate. Under 

 surface densely, minutely punctate. Posterior femora strongly clavate, armed 

 with a minute tooth towards tlie apex beneath ; anterior tibiae of (^ bowed, 

 that of 2 feebly curved. Length ^-2i, breadth 1^-1^ mm, ( d 2 •) 



Hab. India, W. Almora in Kumaon (H. G. C. : v.l918). 



Bred in abundance from the pods of Lespedeza stenocaoya (Order 

 Leguminosae). The brilliant shining blue surface of this small Bruchid 

 separates it from all the described Indian members of the genus, and 

 intleed from all those known to me from other parts of the world, 

 metallic coloration being rarely met with in this family of beetles. The 

 females vary in the colour of the pygidium and of the terminal ventral 

 segments of the abdomen, some specimens having these parts of the body 

 metallic as in c' , and others have them rufous. The males are constant 

 in this respect, but the antennae in this sex are sometimes almost 

 wholly testaceous. A metallic green parasitic Chalcid {Enfedus sp. ?) 

 was bred in some numbers from the same pods. 



Bruchus maculipyga, n. sp. 



Elliptic, much narrowed in front and behind, convex beneath ; shining, 

 reddish-brown, the upper surface more or less nigro-variegate (especially 

 towards the sides, suture, and apex of the elytra), the pygidium with a large 

 rounded black patch oil the apical half, sometimes divided down the middle, 

 and usually continued forwards to the base, becoming gradually wider anteriorly, 

 antennae testaceous, joints 6-11 often more or less infuscate (especially in 

 specimens assumed to be males); palpi and eyes black; legs testaceous or 

 obscure testaceous, with the tips of the tarsal joints 3 and 4 black ; thickly 

 clothed with a fine adpressed vestiture, which in the paler examples is almost 

 wholly tawny on the prothorax and elytra, that on the darker specimens partly 

 partaking of the ground-colour, these latter Avith numerous small, oblong ur 

 subquadrate, cinereous and black spots; tlie black patch on the pygidium 



