PALOMENA. 



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reddish-ocliraceous ; steruum with a double rort' of lateral spots 

 which are sometimes greenish, lateral abdominal margia with two 

 dark greenish spots at the apices of the incisures ; a central 

 elongate black spot on the disk of the penultimate abdominal 

 segment. 



Length 15 ; breadth between pronotal angles 8 millim. 



Hah. Tenassenm ; Myitta (Dohertij). 



254. Tolumnia antennata, sp. n. 



General appearance of the preceding species but broader, and 

 in some respects approaching the previous genus {Hahjomorpha). 

 The mai-gins of the head are more reflexed and the central lobe not 

 a little longer than the lateral lobes ; the lateral margins of the 

 pronotum are also scarcely callous though reflexed ; its other 

 characters, however, are distinctly those of Tolumnia. 



Above as in T. maxima, but the ochraceous irroration to the 

 pronotum transverse and discal ; antennae black, base of apical 

 joint luteous, a double series of small black lateral spots to the 

 sternal segments ; stigmata and two small marginal spots at apices 

 of abdominal incisures black ; femora with a narrow apical line 

 beneath and posterior femora with two subapical spots, black ; 

 apices of the anterior tarsi black. 



Length 13 ; breadth between pronotal angles ^k millim. 



Hah. Malabar {Coll. Dist.). 



255. Tolumnia immaculata, Dist. Tr. K S. 1900, p. 168. 



Brassy-ferruginous, thickly aud coarsely punctate ; body beneath 

 iind legs ochraceous, coarsely and darkly punctate ; a large central 

 piceous spot to mesosternum, aud a very dark castaneous broad 

 irregular central fascia to abdomen ; legs punctured with bro\\'nish, 

 femora with t\\o large brownish spots beneath a little before apex ; 

 antennae ochraceous, fourth and fifth joints and the apex of the 

 third piceous, bases of fourth and fifth joints ochraceous. Head 

 long and narrow ; second joint of antennae a little longer than the 

 third, fourth and fifth subequal in length. 



Var. Colour above ochraceous ; head, anterior area of pro- 

 notum, and sometimes apex of scutellum only, brassy-ferruginous. 



Length 8^ to 10 ; breadth between pronotal angles 5 to 5| millim. 



Hah. Nilgiri Hills {Hampson) ; Kotagiri (AtJcinson Coll.). Ceylon 

 (Green <Sf Leivis). 



Genus PALOMENA. 



Palomena, Muls. <$• Itey, Piin. France, Fent. pp. 271 & 277 (1866) ; 

 Stal, En. Hem. x, p. 75 (1876). 



Type, P. viridissima, Poda. 



Distrihiition. Palaearctic Eegion and jNorthern India. 

 Head moderately rounded in front, antennae with the second 

 joint a little longer than the third ; connexivum extending beyond 



