NEW SPECIES OF INDIAN PHYTOPHAGA 123 



the base, rounded anteriorly, the base with a very shallow trans- 

 verse sulcus, bounded at the sides by a deep perpendicular groove, 

 the basal portion distinctly but not closely punctured, the middle 

 of the disc with a broad band of strong punctures, the surface 

 fulvous, the base slightly stained with piceous, scutellum small, 

 black, elytra dark metallic blue, rather strongly punctate-striate, 

 the rows somewhat irregular and closely placed near the suture, 

 more regularly so at the sides, the breast and legs dark blue, the 

 abdomen more or less fulvous at the apex. 



Hah. Mandar, Bengal. 



This species has the coloration of many belonging to the allied 

 genus Podagrica, the very convex thorax and other details agree 

 however with Pseudodera which already contains several Indian 

 forms, the tibiae in that genus are not chanelled and the terminal 

 spur is very small. 



SPH.^RODERMA. MANDARENSIS n. sp. 



Piceous or dark fulvous, the five or six lower joints of the 

 antennae flavous, thorax extremely closely and finely punctured, 

 elytra nearly similarly punctured with traces of punctures, arran- 

 ged in rows at the sides. 



Length 3-3 1/2 mill. 



Head impunctate, fulvous, deeply obliquely grooved above the 

 eyes, the latter large, the frontal elevations transverse, oblique, 

 lower portion of the face strongly produced and narrow, the 

 clypeus strongly raised between the antenna;, the latter extending 

 to about half the length of the elytra, flavous, the terminal joints 

 piceous, the first joint elongate, the following three, short and 

 equal, terminal joints dilated, subquadrate, the last one more 

 elongate again, thorax about twice and a half broader than long, 

 not much narrowed in front, the sides rounded, with a very narrow 

 reflexed margin, the anterior angles thickened, obtuse, posterior 

 margin bisinuate, the surface very closely and finely punctured, 

 the sides a little more distantly so, scutellum very small, elytra 

 strongly convex, punctured like the thorax but with more or less 

 distinct punctures arranged in rows between the irregular punctua- 

 tion; below finely pubescent, the breast more or less piceous, the 

 extreme margins of the abdominal segments flavous, legs fulvous. 



Hah. Mandar, Bengal. 



This Sphceroderma may be separated from other Eastern species 

 by the general piceous colour, the more than usual prolongation of 

 the lower portion of the face, and the very close punctuation of the 

 upper surface where the arrangement of punctures in rows of the 



