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the shape and gênerai characters ; the female bas a simple head 

 and, as usuel, smaller mandibles and less transverselj shaped 

 thorax; the pattern of the elytra seems subject to great variation 

 and while in one variety the spots are ail more or less confluent, 

 in another they are nearly absent with the exception of the 

 shoulder spot and intermediate Systems of coloration are equally 

 présent, the legs also vary from fulvous to black ; unspotted spéci- 

 mens will be difïîcult to distinguish from other allied species, but 

 the entirely impunctate head and thorax and very finely punctu- 

 red elytra will help in their récognition. 



Aspidolopha quatuor decimpunctata n. sp. 



Fulvous, the head black, the thorax impunctate with four black 

 spots placed transversely, elytra finely punctured in rows, fulvous, 

 each with five black spots (2.2.1.), underside sometimes spotted 

 with black. 



Length 2 Unes. 



Head impunctate, black, the space in front of the eyes 

 pubescent, indistinctly foveolate at the middle, the anterior mar- 

 gin of the clypeus nearly straight, labrum fulvous, as well as the 

 mandibles and palpi, antennae not extending to the base of the 

 thorax, fuscous, the basai three joints fulvous, the third joint 

 much longer than the second ; thorax three times broader than 

 long, narrowed in front, the sides moderately rounded as well as 

 the posterior angles, posterior margin sinuate at each side, the 

 médian lobe scarcely produced, the surface entirely impunctate, 

 fulvous, with four srnall black spots placed transversely at the 

 middle; scutellum black or piceous, broad, its apex truncate, 

 the base pubescent, rest of its surface smooth ; elytra distinctly 

 lobed at the base of the epipleurse, punctured in rather closely 

 approached and distinct rows, fulvous, with a black spot on the 

 shoulder, another below the base near the scutellum, two placed 

 transversely below the middle and one at the extrême apex of 

 each elytron; the underside fulvous or with the breast and some 

 spots on the abdomen, black, clothed with long grey pubescence, 

 legs fulvous, the first joint of the posterior tarsi double the length 

 of the following joint. 



Eab. Kanara, S. Bombay. 



Amongst the rather nuraerous spécimens before me, the only 

 variation seems to be the occasional absence of the apical spot of 

 tl^e elytra ; the species may be distinguished from others by the four 

 spots on the thorax and the number and position of those of the 

 elytra. 



