412 NEW SPECIES OF INDIAN PHYTOPHAGA 



posteriorly and the extreme lateral margins, black, anterior femora 

 strongly toothed. 



Length 3 mill. 



Of ovate, rounded shape, the head impunctate, the eyes large, the 

 clypeus not separated from the face, the antennae long and rather 

 slender, flavous, the terminal joints stained with fuscous, second 

 joint thickened, scarcely shorter than the basal one, third and fourth 

 joints slender, equal, terminal joints elongate and slightly thickened ; 

 thorax more than twice as broad as long, the sides feebly rounded, 

 the angles distinct, the surface minutely and not very closely punc- 

 tured, the sides and the space near the anterior angles impunctate, 

 posterior margin feebly produced at the middle, scutellum fulvous, 

 elytra not depressed below the base, convex, regularly punctate- 

 striate, the punctures larger at the sides than at the rest of the sur- 

 face, those near the suture nearly contiguous, forming strife, each 

 elytra with a broad sutural band, from the base to below the middle, 

 where it is narrowed and suddenly terminated, the lateral margins 

 also more or less black or unicolorous, below piceous, legs ful- 

 vous, the anterior femora with a strong tooth, prosternum very 

 broad. 



Hah. Mandar, Bengal. 



Cleorina seems to me to be the only suitable place for the recep- 

 tion of this species, in spite of the strongly toothed anterior femora 

 which is however absent in the other species of the genus. Cleo- 

 ponis has the eyes surrounded by a broad sulcus, and Mouhotina is 

 of subcylindrical shape in regard to the thorax and elytra, the pre- 

 sent insect has the ovately rounded shape and the long, filiform 

 antennae, broad prosternum, peculiar to Cleorina. 



COLASPOIDES SEMIPICEUS Jac. 



Of this species, described by myself in the Belgian Annals of 1895 

 from specimens obtained at Kanara, there are a good many indivi- 

 duals contained in this collection which M. Cardon obtained at 

 Mandar, they nearly all belong to the blue variety with fulvous legs 

 and I may add a few more details for the better recognition of the 

 species; the head in all has the epistome and labrum fulvous, but 

 the upper portion either bluish or obscure fulvous, the epistome 

 is very feebly separated from the face; the scutellum in all the spe- 

 cimens (with one exception) whether of blue or obscure aeneous 

 colour above (in the original description I have given the colour as 

 piceous, dark seneous would better express the tint) is constantly 

 fulvous; the anterior femora seem only strongly dentate in the 

 male sex, obsoletely so in the other; the species has an almost 



