376 Mr. Baly's descriptions of 



the thorax, parallel, rather strongly punctured, the piinctures 

 arranged irregularly in ill defined longitudinal rows, which, on 

 the inner disc beloAV the middle, approximate in pairs ; interspaces 

 plane, sparingly and very minutely punctured on the anterior 

 disc, rugulose on the outer one below the humeral callus. Basal 

 joint of anterior tarsus dilated, subcordate. 



12. Haltica ccBvulescens. 



Haltica cceriilescens, Baly, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1874, p. 190. 

 Hab. Murree ; also China and Japan. 



13. Haltica viridicyanea. 



Haltica viridicyanea, Baly, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1S74, p. 191. 

 Hab. Sind Valley, apparently common ; I possess this species 

 from Japan, it is probably found in the intermediate locahties. 



14. Enneaniera variabilis. 



Nonarthi^a variahilis, Baly, Journ. of Entom. i, p. 456, tab. 

 21. fig. 1. 



Hab. Murree ; this species is also found in Northern India. 



CHAR.EA, n. gen. 



Corpus elongato-ovatum. Caput exsertum, fucic perpen- 

 diculari ; oculis rotundatis, integris, prominentibus ; encarpis 

 tranversis, contiguis ; carina oblongo-elongata, apice acuta ; 

 antennis filiformibus. Thorax transversus, dorso modice con- 

 vexus. Elytra thorace latiora, confuse punctata, limbo inflexo 

 fere ad apicem extenso. Pedes; fernoribus posticis non incras- 

 satis ; tibiis simplicibus, apice spina acuta armatis ; tarsis posticis 

 articulo basali sequentibixs tribus longitudine fere a^cjuanti, 

 vnf/iiicvlis appendiculatis. Prosternum angustum, coxis fere 

 ffiquialtum ; acetabuUs auticis apertis. 



This genus at first sight bears in its facies a strong resem- 

 blance to Aphthora, but the slender hinder thighs at once 

 separate it and place it amongst the Gallerncinw. 



15. CJianea Jlaviventre, n. sp. 



Elougato-ovata, convexa, subtus picea, a^neo tiucta, alidomine 

 riavo ; supra viridi-cyanea, antennis nigris ; thorace lateribus 



