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22. Galleruca indica, n. sp. 



Ovata, postice paulo ampliata, modice convexa, nigra, subtus 

 nitida, griseo sericea, siapra opaca ; capite thoraceque rude 

 rugoso-piinctatis, hoc transverse, utrinque foveolato, medio longi- 

 tudinaliter sulcato, lateribiis reflexis, ante medium obsolete 

 angulatis ; elytris vage rufo-piceo limbatis, rugoso-punctatis, 

 utrisque vittis elevatis quatuor, duabus intermediis interruptis, 

 interdum fere totidem obsoletis, iustructis. Long. 5 lin. 



Hab. Murree ; also Northern India, my collection. 



Head very coarsely rugose-punctate. Thorax nearly twice as 

 broad as long ; sides parallel, slightly sinuate, obtusely angled 

 just before the middle, thence obhquely converging to the apex, 

 the anterior angle moderately produced, its apex rounded ; disc 

 veiy coarsely rugose-punctate, the middle portion with a longi- 

 tudinal sulcation which extends from base to apex, either side 

 impressed with a large fovea. Scutellum coarsely rugose- 

 punctate. Elytra broader than the thorax, ovate, slightly dilated 

 towards the apex, moderately convex, rugose-punctate, but less 

 coarsely so than the head and thorax ; black, sometimes tinged 

 with piceous, the outer margin obscure rufo-piceous ; each 

 elytron with four raised vittse, the two intermediate ones inter- 

 rupted and sometimes almost entirely obsolete ; the suture also 

 thickened. 



23. GaleruceUa* placida, n, sp. 



Anguste obloi:ga, griseo hirsuta, subtus picea, nitida, protho- 

 race fulvo ; supra sordide fulva, subnitida, antennis, verticis 

 plaga, thoracis maculis tribus transversim positis scutelloque basi 

 piceis ; thorace transverso, lateribus ante basin dente subacute 

 armatis, ante dentem coucavis, ante medium ampliatis, disco rude 

 rugoso, bifoveolato ; elytris profunde confuse punctatis, iuter- 

 spatiis granulosis. Long. 2 Hn. 



Hab. Jhelam Valley, one specimen ; I also possess this insect 

 from India. 



Vertex and front finely rugose-punctate, clothed with adpres- 

 sed griseous hairs, the middle with a large ill defined piceous 

 patch ; encarpa; thickened, contiguous, pyriform ; antennae 

 moderately robust, filiform, the second joint nearly ec^ual iu 

 length to the first, about two-thirds the length of the third. 



Galrrurplla. Crotch, Proc. Acad. Phila':!. 1S7.3, p. o5. 



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