94 Mr. J. S. Baly on six new species 



each impressed with ten rows of distinct punctures, . the first abbrevi- 

 ated, the second running parallel to the suture, the others arranged in 

 pairs, the puncturing of the outer pair more distant than in the rest, 

 all the rows less distinct and nearly obsolete near the apex ; outer 

 margin impressed with a single row of fine pimctm'es; interspaces 

 smooth, indistinctly punctured. Body beneath finely punctured ; legs 

 slender, subelongate. 

 Hab. Ceylon. 



The form of the elytra and the slender legs give this insect a 

 different appearance from the rest of the genus. 



2, Chrysomela For-tiinei. 



C. oblonga, valde convexa, nitidissima, iridescens ; subtus viridi seneoque 

 variegata, capite pedibusque pm-pureis ; supra viridi-apnea ; capite tho- 

 raceque rufo-violaceo-maculatis, hoc transverse, a basi ad ante me- 

 dium ampliato, lateribus incrassatis, intra marginem profunde punc- 

 tatis, irregidariter bi-impressis, disco loevi, hie iUic sparse punctate ; 

 elytris dorso obsolete gibbosis, infra humeros ti'ansversim impressis, 

 tenuiter punctato-striatis, pvmctis in striis confuse biseriatim dispositis, 

 ad latera et apicem versus subdissipatis, interspatiis Ifevibus ; utrisque 

 plaga magna male deiinita baseos, vittisque postice rufo-violaceis, vitta 

 pone medium caeridea. — Long. 5^ lin. 



Oblong, very convex, almost gibbous just behind the middle, nitidous, 

 iridescent; body beneath bright metallic-green, more or less inter- 

 mingled with aureous ; head and legs deep metallic-blue ; above bril- 

 liant metaUic-green, variegated with rufo-violaceous. Head sparingly 

 impressed with minute punctm'es ; epistome semilunate, bordered above 

 by a regularly curved line; antennse slender, deep metallic-blue. 

 Thorax before its middle twice broader than long ; sides gradually di- 

 lated from their base to before the middle, thence suddenly rounded 

 and narrowed to the apex ; upper sm-face sparingly impressed here and 

 there with deep distinct pimctiu-es, sides thickened, bounded internally 

 by a number of large, deep, confluent variolose punctures, placed longi- 

 tudinally in the middle of which are two large, deeply impressed, ill- 

 defined irregular foveas ; the basal margin and an iri'egularly curved 

 marking on either side the disk, united with its feUow at the base, rufo- 

 \'iolaceous. Scutellum smooth, semirotundate-ovate. Elytra broader 

 than the thorax, indistinctly dilated behind their middle, very convex, 

 more particularly on the hinder half, their middle portion almost gib- 

 bous ; sm'face very smooth and shining, each elytron below the shoulder 

 with a weU-defined transverse impression, which extends from imme- 

 diately within the outer border nearly to the suture ; finely punctate- 

 striate, the pimctm-es on the striae irregularly arranged in a double 

 row, the striae themselves, about nine in number, becoming confused 



. and irregiJar on the side and towards the apex of the elytron ; inter- 

 spaces on the disk smooth and nearly impunctate, those on the sides 



