NEW SPECIES OF INDIAN PHYTOPHAGA 135 



gly marked and banded form for the type, is closely allied to 

 A. histrio Baly and A. multicolor Jac. The varieties may easily be 

 mistaken for so many species, but as I have so many intermediate 

 degrees of coloration before me and as all the specimens were obtai- 

 ned at the same locality and show no struclural differences I must 

 look upon them as representing all one species. The head in the type 

 is flavous and impunctate, as well as the clypeus and the labrum, the 

 frontal elevations are well marked and narrowly transverse, the 

 antennae are flavous and have the fourth joint twice as long as the 

 third one, the thorax is more than twice as broad as long, the sides 

 are nearly straight, and the anterior angles slightly oblique, the 

 surface is impunctate, rather convex and without depressions, the 

 scutellum is either flavous, fulvous or black, the elytra have a very 

 feeble depression below the base, the punctuation is closely arran- 

 ged in semi-regular rows and rather distinctly marked at the ante- 

 rior portion, the apex nearly impunctate, the breast is sometimes 

 piceous but in mostinstances flavous like the rest of Ihe underside 

 and the legs; in the banded type, the tibiae and tarsi are generally, 

 but not always, black; the base in the specimens which have black 

 elytra and a flavous band is in every instance more or less stained 

 with fulvous which colour fnay be traced also in those having enti- 

 rely dark elytra. A. flauofusciataBaly has the underside black, the 

 black base of the elytra has no fulvous indication, and the flavous 

 band is placed lower and of different shape; A. histrio Baly has the 

 vertex of the head black and the elytra differently marked, the same 

 is the case in A. multicolor, I am also convinced that the entirely 

 testaceous form belongs to this species, as it is of the same size and 

 structure. 



EUMELEPTA GLYPEATA n. sp. 



Obscure fulvous below, the vertex of the head and the breast 

 black, the antennae, clypeus and the thorax flavous, elytra very 

 minutely punctured, testaceous, all the margins narrowly piceous. 



Var. Elytra entirely testaceous. 



Length 3-3 d/2 mill. 



Head entirely impunctate, the vertex black, shining, the lower 

 portion of the face flavous, the frontal elevations broad and subqua- 

 drate, the carina acutely raised, short, labrum black, the antennae 

 short and robust, flavous, the second and third joints short, equal, 

 the following joints slightly longer and thickened, the thorax about 

 one half broader than long, the lateral and basal margins feebly 

 rounded, the surface rather convex, extremely minutely punctured, 

 flavous, scutellum black; elytra convex, subcyiindrical, finely and 



