Phytopliagou« Colcoptera. 375 



9. Plagiodera verHicolvra. 



Chrijsoiiiela versicolora, Laicliarting, Verz. Tyrol. Ins. i, p. 

 148 (17.S1). 



Chrijsoiaela ar.noracicE, Fabr. 

 Hab. Jhelam Valley. 



10. CItrijsoiiiela angelica. 



Chrij>it>inela angelica, Reiche, Aun. Soc. Ent. Frauce, 1<558, 

 p. 33, tab. i, fig. 8 ; Pairm., I.e. 1805, p. 80. 

 llab. Sincl Valley ; also Syria. 



I do not detect the slightest difference between specimens 

 brought from Syria and those contained in the present collection. 



11. PJiratora ahdoininalis, n. sp. 



Elongata, parallela, nigro-a'nea aut nigro-cyanea, nitida, pedi- 

 bus abdomineque nigro-piceis, hiijus segmentis ultimis duolnis 

 piceo-fulvis; thorace transverso, sat fortiter irregulariter punctato, 

 ntrinqne leviter rugoso ; elytris thorace latioribus, parallelis, sat 

 fortiter punctatis, pnuctis subseriatim dispositis, interspatiis 

 planis, subremote, tenuiter punctatis, infra callum humerale 

 transversim rugiilosis. Long. 2|-3 lin. 



Hab. Murree. 



Head short, transverse ; vertex impressed, but not very closely, 

 with large deep punctures, lower face more closely but less 

 coarsely punctured than the vertex, suhrugulose ; in the middle 

 between the encarpa? is a short longitudinal sulcation, which 

 extends upwards from the apex of the clypeus ; the latter 

 depressed, broader than long, its upper margin obtusely augulate, 

 its surface closely punctured, subrugose ; antennae scarcely more 

 than half the length of the body, filiform, slightly thickened 

 towards the apex, the basal joint thickened, the second slender, 

 equal in length to the first and also to the fourth joints, but 

 slightly shorter than the third ; two lower joints fulvous, stained 

 above with piceous, the third to the sixth obscure piceous, the 

 five others slightly thickened, black. Thorax nearly one half 

 Ijroader than long ; sides nearly straight and parallel from the 

 base to the middle, thence obli(|uely converging to the apex, the 

 hinder angles produced laterally into a large acute tooth, the 

 anterior ones sub-acute ; apical margin concave ; U])per surface 

 irregularly punctured, the interspaces smooth and shining on the 

 middle disc, finely rugulose on the sides. Elytra broader than 



