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trausversini siilcato, purpureo linibato, aute medium fascia lata trans- 

 versa rubro-iguea instructo ; seutello pin-pm-eo ; elytris sat fortiter striato- 

 pimctatis, rubro-igueis, sutura margiiieque laterali auguste piu-pureis, 

 vitta subsutiirali, limbo sublaterali, vitta obliqiia liumerali maculaque 

 vix pone mediimi margiui adlixa viridi-peneis. — Long. 4A lin. 

 Hab. Northern China. 



Antennae scarcely half the length of the body, moderately robust, 

 subfiliform, stouter, indistinctly thickened and subfusiform in the 

 fuale; second and third joints short, the third twice the length of the 

 second; first three joints glabrous, shining purple, the others closely 

 covered with short adpressed fuscous hairs ; face stained between the 

 eyes with a rufo-igneous patch ; forehead impressed with a deep fovea. 

 Thorax rather more than twice as broad as long, sides margined, 

 slightly rounded, obliquely narrowed in front, anterior angles thickened ; 

 upper surface remotely punctured, impressed on either side the disk by 

 a deep, slightly curved transverse fossa. Elytra scarcety broader than the 

 thorax, oblong, each elytron -with about eleven rows of distinct deeply 

 impressed punctures, placed at irregular intervals on the rows, inter- 

 spaces finely punctured ; basilar space bounded beneath by a shallow 

 fovea. 



Genus Melospila. 



Antemue compressne, subserratse, articulis secundo et tertio brevibus. 

 Cox<B anticce subcontiguse, crassse, perpendicidares. Prostenmm an- 

 gustatissimum, integrum. Palparum maxillarimi articuli duo ultimi 

 conjimctim ovati. 



Characteres caeteri ut in Eustetha sunt. 



Tj'pe, 3Ielospila nigromaculata, Baly. 



Very closely allied to Eustetha, but separated by the characters 

 given above. 



Melos^ila nigromacidata. 



31. oblonga, couvexa, nigra, nitida ; antennis compressis, subserratis ; tho- 

 race hie Ulic fortiter punctato ; elytris fortiter striato-punctatis, flavis, 

 vitta suturali, linea marginali antice abbreviata et apice dilatata, fasci a 

 lata vix ante medium, extrorsum abbreviata, maculisque 10,harmn tribus 

 baseos inter se confluentibus, quinque pone mediimi transversim positis, 

 duabusque apicalibus, nigi-is. — Long. 3j lin. 



Hab. Northern China. 



Antennfe more than two-thirds the length of the body ; second and 

 third joints short, nearly equal, the remainder compressed and dilated 

 on their inner edge from base to apex, the latter being slightly produced 

 and acute. Thorax convex, its sides margined, rounded and entire. 

 Punctm-es on the elytra deeply impressed, somewhat irregularly arranged 

 in eleven longitudinal rows, the first abbreviated. 



