8 , HOPLIONOTA. 



maculis duabus obsoletis fuscis, una ante, altera pone 

 medium ornato. — Long. 5, lat. 4 millim. 



Hoplionota maculipennis. Bhn. Cat. of Coleopt. Ins. IX. p. 5. 14. 



Var. a: prothorace immaculato. 



Patria: India orientalis. Dom. Saunders. Mus. Reg. Holm. 



Maguitudine Hopl. ochraceae. Caput testaceum, nitidum, 

 vix punctulatum; fronte impressa, medio tenuiter carinata. 

 Oculi ovati, modice convexi, nigri. Antennae testaceae, basi 

 tenues, articulis quinque ultimis crassis, clavam formantibufe. 

 Prothorax transversus, latitudine duplo brevior, apice profunde 

 rotundato-emarginatus, pone emarginaturam leviter rotundatus, 

 lateribus basin versus sub-rectis; postice leviter bi-sinuatus, 

 angulis sub-rotundatis, remote serratis; testaceus, parum ni- 

 tidus, prope basin utrinque macula parva nigra notatus, dorso 

 modice convexus, transversim bi-impressus, subtiliter, remote, 

 margine explanato grosse, crebre punctatus. Scutellum rufo- 

 testaceum, sub-Iaeve. Elytra prothorace vix latiora sed illo 

 duplo et dimidio longiora, antice utrinque leviter sinuata, 

 humeris non prominulis, leviter rotundatis; pone basin haud 

 ampliata, lateribus fere recta, obsolete, remote serrata, apice 

 conjunctim late rotundata, superne modice convexa, mediocriter 

 sat crebre, minus regulariter punctato-striata, testacea, parum 

 nitida, singulo tuberculis octo minus elevatis, inaequalibus, 

 plerisque obtusis, nigris instructa, quatuor non procul a sutura, 

 primo prope basin, secundo ante medium, longitudinalibus, 

 jsub-carinatis, tertio pone medium, reliquis majore, transverso, 

 quarto inter medium et apicem, in disco exteriore tuberculis 

 3 vel 4 minoribus, longitudinaliter positis; margine sat late 

 explanato, dilutiore, profunde punctato, maculis duabus obso- 

 letis, fusco-ferrugineis, una inter basin et mediura, altera pone 

 medium. Corpus testaceum, sub-nitidum, obsolete punotulatum; 

 pectore piceo. Pedes testacei. 



*16. horrifica: sub-quadrata, modice convexa, testacea, parum 

 nitida; prothorace dorso transversim bi-impresso, subtilius, 

 lateribus profunde, crebre punctato; elytris mediocriter, 

 miuus regulariter punctato-striatis, parce nigro-variegatis, 

 singulo carinis tuberculisque inaequalibus instructo, tuber- 



