368 Records oj the Indian Museum. [ VOL. 2a, 
Family CHRYSOMELIDAE. 
Group CRYPTOSTOMATA. 
Subfamily HISPINAE. 
Tribe BOTRYONOPINI. 
Genus Botryonopa, Blanch. 
Blanchard, Hist. Nat. Jns. II, 1845, p. 181. 
Baly, Cat. Hisp. 1858, p. 91, t. 2, f. 6. 
Chapuis, Gen. Col. XI, 1875, p. 291. 
Rane: Baly, Cat. Hisp. 1858, p. 94, t. 
Chapuis, Gen. Col. XI, 1875, p. eee 
Botryonopa sheppardi, Baly (var.). 
Baly, Cat. Hisp. 1858, p. 92, t. 7, f. 4. 
Weise, Stett. Ent. we LXIX, I o8: p. 214. 
Locality.—Silchar, Cachar (J. Wood-Mason). One example. 
It is asmall specimen. The upper portion of the elytra and 
the prothorax are yellow and not of the usual red colour. 
Genus Macrispa, Baly. 
This genus was erected by Baly in 1858 (Cat. Hisp. 1858, 
p. 90) for the reception of Macrispa saundersi, Baly. The locality 
of this insect was not known at that time. Twenty-one years 
later, in working out the Phytophagous Coleoptera collected by 
Chennell in Assam, Baly found a very imperfect specimen of Mac- 
vispa. This localised the habitat of the genus (Czst. Ent. II, 
1879, p. 405). The imperfect specimen has been indentified as 
M. saundersi, which, as I shall show, is not correct. In 1906 
Gestro in a little note (Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 1906, p. 130) said 
that in the Oberthtir collection he had found one example reported 
from British Bhutan. Thus there exist in the collections only 
three examples of the genus. I have before me three more 
examples (I 7 2 2 @) which clearly belong to Macrispba. But it 
will be necessary to describe them as a new species. 
In enumerating the generic characters, Baly states in refer- 
ence to the antennae:—‘‘Corporis dimidio longitudine, super 
tubercula duo inter oculos insertae, subfiliformes, ad apicem sub- 
incrassatae, articulo primo incrassato, secundo brevi, duobus prox- 
imis elongatis, gracilioribus, caeteris fere aequalibus, obconicis, 
perparum leniter incrassatis, subcompressis.”’ 
The following points in this description call for notice :— 
(rt) As the length of the antenna differs in the sexes (Baly 
had one @? specimen before him when he drew up the 
description) its relation to the length of the body can- 
not be made a generic character. 
(2) In the specimens before me the third and fourth joints of 
the antenna are not slenderer than the rest. 
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