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Aspidolopha interrupto-fasciata n. sp. 



Fulvous, the head and the scutellum dark metallic blue, thorax 

 closely punctured at the sides, elytra closely and deeply punctured, 

 a spot on the shoulder, another below the middle at the suture, 

 and the latéral and suturai margins posteriorly, dark blue. 



Length 1 1/2 line. 



Head finely and closely punctured and strigose, clothed with 

 very short pubescence, metallic blue, the clypeus more strongly 

 punctured, its anterior margin nearly straight, labrum fulvous, 

 antennsè not quite extending to the base of the thorax, the lower 

 four joints fulvous, the others fuscous; thorax nearly three times 

 broader than long, the sides rounded as well as the posterior 

 angles, médian lobe very broad, truncate, slightly produced, the 

 surface very closely and strongly somewhat confluently punctured at 

 the sides, the middle remotely punctured or with a sraooth central 

 impunctate space, scutellum dark blue, broad, pointed at the apex, 

 the base finely pubescent; elytra closely and strongly punctured 

 anteriorly, the punctures at the posterior portion semiregularly 

 arranged in rows, ttie posterior half of the suture connected more or 

 less with a spot below the middle, the similar portion of the latéral 

 margin and a spot on the shoulder, dark blue, elytral epipleuraB 

 produced at the sides below the base; underside finely pubescent, 

 fulvous as well as the legs, the breast more or less darkened. 



Hab. Kanara, S. Bombay. 



Of the usual short and robust shape but of small size and 

 différent from any of its allies in the markings of the elytra; 

 thèse in one spécimen hâve an almost semicrescent blue suturai 

 band joined to the posterior spot which however in another one 

 is separated from the spot placed near the suture, neither of the 

 bands extend quite to the apex of the elytra. 



Gynandrophthalma Lacordairei n. sp. 



Below black, finely pubescent, above and the legs fulvous, 

 thorax transverse, nearly impunctate, elytra very finely and 

 closely punctured, a transverse narrow band near the base and 

 another below the middle, black. 



var. a. The elytral bands separated into four spots, the under- 

 side fulvous. 



var. h. Elytra entirely fulvous, sometimes with a single latéral 

 spot. 



var. c. Elytra with the posterior portion to a greater or smal- 

 1er extend, black. 



Lenght 2 1/2 Unes, 



