380 Mr. Baly's descriptions of 



20. Luperodes erythroccphala, n. sp. 



Auguste oblongo-ovata, convexa, nigra, nitida, capite rufo- 

 testaceo, ore, anteanis pecUbusque piceis ; thorace crebre pimc- 

 tato, disco iitrinque leviter trans versim excavato ; elytris sat 

 crebre punctatis. Long. 2 lin. 



Hab. Murree. 



Plead exserted, vertex and front shining, imj^uuctate ; encarpa? 

 transverse, contiguous ; labrum piceous ; jaws and palpi rufo- 

 piceous ; antenna? filiform, three-fourths the length of the body, 

 second and third joints short, conjointly about equal in length 

 to the first. Thorax twice as broad as long ; sides rounded, 

 slightly converging at the base, all the angles distinct, the 

 anterior thickened, sub -tuber culate ; disc closely punctured, 

 distinctly excavated on either side. Elytra oblong, less closely 

 punctured than the thorax. 



21. Galleruca vittatipennis, n. sp. 



Elongato-oblonga, convexa, nigro-picea aut nigra, nitida, ver- 

 tice rufo-piceo, abdominis segmentorum margine apicali pallide 

 rufo-piceo ; thorace excavato, rude foveolato ; elytris abdomiue 

 multo brevioribus, fortiter substriatim punctatis, sordide fulvis, 

 titrisque lineil suturali elevata, vittisque elevatis quatuor, utrinque 

 abbreviatis, Ima et 4ta, 2dri et Stia apice per paria conjunctis, 

 uigro-piceis instructis. Long. 4^ lin. 



llab. On the road across the Pamir, from Sirikol to Panga. 



Head sub-rotundate, vertex and front deeply and coarsely foveo- 

 late-punctate, imptessed in the middle with a deep longitudinal 

 groove, which extends downwards between the encarpa; as far as 

 the apex of the clypeus, where it terminates in a triangular 

 fovea; encarpa- thickened, trigonate, smooth, impunctate; clypeus 

 very short, thickened and forming a transverse ridge, its anterior 

 border narrowly edged with rufous ; antennae robust, the second 

 joint ovate, rather more than half the length of the third, the 

 third and fourth joints equal. Thorax rather more than twice 

 as broad as long ; sides sinuate and parallel from the base to 

 beyond the middle, thence obliquely converging to the apex, 

 the anterior angles slightl}' produced, somewhat recurved, 

 obtuse ; disc excavated on either side, the middle disc impressed 

 with a broad longitudinal sulcation which extends from base to 

 apex ; the whole surface covered with large, deej?, round foveaj. 

 Scutellum semi-rotundate, piceous, impunctate. 



