374 Records of the Indian Museum. VOL. pels 
Locality.—Berhampur, Murshidabad district, Bengal, 1-1-08 
(R. E. Lloyd). 
Type in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. 
Fuller description. 
Head rugose, coarsely punctate, a fine groove from the vertex 
runs down the middle, an incomplete ridge enclosing a row of 
short brownish hairs round the eyes; basal 6 joints of the anten- 
nae black, bare, and punctate, apical 5 joints form a very dilated, 
round club which is covered with reddish brown pubescence, basal 
joint bearing a long spine on the dorsal side, 2-4 joints small, 
rounded, 5-6 joints subequal and together as long as 2, 3, and 4, 
apical joint pointed. 
Prothovax more opaque than the elytra, as long as broad, nar- 
rowed in front, lateral margins rounded ; surface coarsely punctate, 
covered with brown pubescence; a bare longitudinal area in the 
middle, the bare area is more or less elevated; two transverse 
shallow depressions; two pairs of bifid and erect spines on the 
front margin, one pair of similar bifid spines and a single one on 
each lateral margin; base bare, transversely channelled; each of 
the four lateral angles ends in a minute blunt tooth. 
Elytra shining, sides parallel, rounded at the apex, deeply 
and coarsely punctate-striate, thinly covered with stout and erect 
spines, the marginal row of spines horizontal. 
Legs short, stout, punctate, sparsely covered with brown 
pubescence; a pointed tooth on the underside of the fore femora, 
3 in similar positions on each of the mid and hind ones, fore and 
hind tibiae straight, emarginate at the apices, mid tibiae curved. 
Genus Hispella, Chap. 
Chapuis, Gen. Col. XI, 1875, p. 334. 
Weise, /ns. Deutschl. V1, 1893, p. 1061 and 1064. 
Weise, Deut. Ent. Zeit. 1897, p. 143. 
In erecting Hispella as a subgenus of Hispa, Chapuis stated 
the characters as follows :— 
‘“Antennes de I1 articles, courtes, et ne dépassant pas la 
base du pronotum, comprimées et spinuleuses, I article assez 
gros, prolongé en dessus en une longue épine arquée en avant, 2 
plus court, muni d’une spinule plus courte, 3-6 légérement dilatés 
de la base a Vextrémité, les angles de celle-ci assez satllants, les 
supérieurs plus que les infévieurs, 7 en céne, 8-10 transversaux, 
trés-serrés, II aigu a l’éxtrémité, pattes courtes et robustes, 
tibtas droits, comprimées, dilatés au bord externe, anguleux et souv- 
ent épineux avant l’extrémité. 
‘Cette division a pour type la Hispa atra, de Linné, qui 
habite les contrées tempérées et méridionales de 1’ Europe.”’ 
The italics are mine, 
At present Hispella comprises six species, including the type 
H. atra, .., from which the above description is taken. The other 
