298 Mr. J. S. Baly on the Phytophaga. 



Genus Morphosphjera. 



Corpus ovatum, valde convexum. Caput thoraci insertum; facie fere 

 perpendiciilari ; antennis gracilibus, filiformibiis, longitudini corporis 

 sequalibus, articiilo primo cur\ato, apicem versus incrassato, duobus 

 proximis brevibus, {sqiialibus, cfeteris longioribus, inter se fere eequa- 

 libiis ; lahro semiovato ; mandibulis apice dentatis ; paJpis robustis, ai-ticulo 

 ultimo obtuso ; me7tto latitudine vix longiore, a basi ad apicem angustato ; 

 oculis prominidis, integris. Thorax transversus. Scutelluni trigouatum. 

 Elytra breviter ovata, thoraee paullo latiora, valde convexa, confuse 

 pimctata. Pedes graciles, simplices ; coxis anticis contiguis ; feinoribus 

 posticis non incrassatis ; imguiculis appendiculatis. 



In form Morphosphcera closely resembles Adorium ; but the very 

 slender filiform antennae at once divide it from that genus. 



Morjohosphcera maculicoUis. 



31. ovalis, valde convexa, uitida, nigra ; labro, abdominis margins thoraceque 

 fulvis, hoc nigro 4-notato ; elytris obscure cseruleis, subcrebre punc- 

 tatis. — Long. 5| lin. 



Hab. India. 



Oval, very convex, shining black ; labruni, margin of the abdomen, 

 together with the thorax, fulvous, the latter marked with four black 

 spots, placed transversely across the disk. Head short; epistome 

 bounded on either side by an oblique groove which extends fi-om the 

 base of the autennre to the angle of the jaw, and seems fonned for the 

 reception of the basal joint of the antenna. Thorax more than twice 

 as broad as long, rounded at the base, sides slightly roimded, nar- 

 rowed from the base to the apex, anterior angles slightly prominent, 

 all the angles obtuse ; upper sm'face finely punctured, impressed with 

 three or four indistinct fovere, lateral border slightly reflexed. Scutellmn 

 trigonate. Elytra ovate, rather broader at their base than the thorax, 

 sides oval, apex regularly rounded ; surface somewhat closely punc- 

 tured, the punctures much deeper and coarser than those on the thorax. 



Genus Xenarthra. 



Corpus elougatum, angustatum, dorso paullo convexum. Caput exsertum ; 

 antennis difibrmibus, corpore longioribus, 12-articulatis, articulo primo 

 incrassato, secundo brevissimo, subcylindrico, tertio primi longitudini 

 fere sequali, compresso, sursum curvato, a basi ad apicem intus dilatato, 

 augulo antico iuteriore in dentem acutum producto, quarto et quinto 

 sextoque compressis, dilatatis, latitudine fere requalibus, septimo dif- 

 formi, basi compresso-dilatato, intus prope medium in processura validum 

 flexuosum producto, octavo nonoque augustatis, basi intus in processum 

 ligulaeformem productis, decimo difformi, incrassato, basi angustato, 

 extus et ad apicem emarginato, angulo antico intei-iore antroi'sum pro- 



