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the suture narrowly black, in width about one-fifth; the second 

 just before the apex; rather broader than the first; or yellow with 

 the apex and a fascia before the middle black. L. 3| lin. India. 

 Var. a. Elytra suffused with black, so as to almost obliterate 

 the posterior fascia. 



Ballia Mayeti. 



Pelina Mayeti, Muls. Mon. p. 189. 4 (T). 



Pale yellowish-ochreous, thorax with the central third black; 

 elytra with the suture narrowly, a narrow uniform fascia reaching 

 the margin before the middle, a dot on the callus and one discoidal 

 before the apex, black; breast underneath black. L. 4 lin. India. 



Var. ft. moativaga, Muls. Op. ill. p. 39 (T). 



Elytra unicolorous, ochreous, legs and body beneath black. 



Var. y. eucharis, Muls. Op. ill. p. 39 (T). 



Elytra ochreous yellow, with three dots representing the full 

 markings ; body black, legs pale yellow. 



Yar. 8. testacea, Muls. Op. in. p. 41 (T). 



Uniformly ochreous above and below. 



I have felt justified in uniting the above species, though I have 

 seen very few specimens, but of these scarcely any two were alike, 

 and a further series would shew probably all the passages. 



Ballia Bayaderae. 



Neda Bayaderw, Muls. Mon. p. 200. 11. 



Head black, with two small yellow dots; thorax black, sides 

 broadly white (as in B. Mayeti); elytra reddish brown, external 

 margin black; body beneath black, legs and abdomen brownish. 

 L. 3<| lin. India (Deyrolle). Of this I have only seen one speci- 

 men, and it is probably a form of some unknown species, 



Ballia Dianas. 



Ballia Diance, Muls. Op. ill. p. 167 (T). 



Ballia Brahma;, Muls. Op. in. p. 36. 



Red-brown, head whitish ; thorax with the sides broadly whitish 

 (not so broad as in B. Mayeti, and the inner edges of the white 

 colour converge forwards); elytra with seven white spots, ringed 

 with dark brown, two basal (one marginal and one by the scutel- 

 lum), three medial (one marginal, two close together near the 

 suture), two subapical (one marginal, the other united to it by one 

 corner); body and legs dark brown. L. 4^ lin. India (Deyrolle). 



"Var. ft. Saunders ii var. nov. 



Similar to the type, but with the legs pale, the disc of the 

 thorax black, with a central reddish-brown line ; the elytra besides 



