PEPEEONOTA. 3;^ 



4. Peperonota harringtoni. (PI, IV, figs. 37, 38.) 



Feperonota hnrringtoni, Westw., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond iv 1847 

 p. 298, pi. 2-2, fig. 1 ; Lacord. Gen. Col. iii, 1856, p. 349,' pi 34 



ng;. 1. r 7 r r 



p. harrimjtoni, var. bicornis, Ohaus, Deutsche Ent. Zeits 1913 

 p. 506. ' 



Chestnut-brown, with the antennae, femora, sometimes most or 

 all ot the ower surface and the pjgidium, the outer part or the 

 whole ot the prouotum, and an indefinite speckling upon the elytra 

 tawny yellow. ^ 



The head is rugose, except upon the vertex, where it is smooth 

 and shniing. The prouotum is uneyenly and rather sparsely 

 punctured and very smooth and shining, the elytra being dull and 

 shallowly and irregularly pitted. 



6 - The scutellum is very shining, but coarsely granular "^^ The 

 elytra are very opaque, except the depressed area adjoining the 



Fiff. 8. 



Peperonota &rnngtoni 6. PeperonotTharll.gtoni, $ . 



^raSs""' tI;^'^' is shining and bears a few fine punctures and 

 granules. The pygidium is convex, shining, and very finely and 

 sparsely punctured. The femora and the edges of the abdomhml 

 segments are fringed with long tawny hair abdominal 



$ . The scutellum is smooth and shining, with scanty punc- 

 tures, the elytra shining in the neighbourhood of the scutellum 

 and on y slightly opaque elsewhere. The pygidium is nearly fla^ 

 vertical, finely and rather rugosely punctured, and clothed, like the 

 abdomen wi_th rather coarse, but not thick, tawny hair 



Length, 1,-22 mm.; breadth, 10-13 mm 



SiKKiM:Eunghong Valley {W. K. Webb, June); Bhutan- 

 Uo I ^ ; i^/'-^Oberthiir Coll.) ; Assam : Khasi HiL 

 (according to Ohaus). 



%^6 unknown ; co-type in the Geneva Museum. 

 i)r. Ohaus has described a variety of this species (as subsp 

 Ucorm.) which may possibly, though not probably, belong to the 



