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



plaga magna baseos fasciisque diiabus latis, prima vix ante medium, 



secunda apicem versus positis, flavo-fulvis. 

 Hub. Labok. Collected by the late M. Mouhot. 

 Var. C. nigra, corpore supra rufo-fulvo. 

 Hob. India, Madras. 



This variety approaches very closely to P. lutea ; Olivier, in his 

 very short description of the latter species, does not mention the legs 

 as differing in colour from the rest of the body, although in the plate 

 they are figured entirely black ; he also gives India, instead of China, 

 as the locality of his insect. 



Podontia spectabilis. (Plate XXI. fig. 2.) 



P. oblongo-elongata aut oblonga, valde convexa, rufo-fulva, nitida ; an- 

 teunis extrorsum nigris, abdominis apice flavo ; thoraee lateribiis bisi- 

 nuatis, antice angustatis, dorso bic illic profunda sed sparse punctato, 

 basi utroque latere trifoveolato, medio ante apicem transversim im- 

 press©, iaterdimi longitudinaliter canaliculato ; elytris flavo marmo- 

 ratis, utroque ante apicem excavato, sat fortiter pimctato-striato, 

 striis disco evidenter, iis ad marginem exteriorem profunde sulcatis, 

 interspatiis ad apicem costatis. — Long. 4 lin. 



Hub. Northern China. 



Oblong-elongate or oblong, convex, bright rufo-fulvous, nitidous. 

 Face transversely depressed between the eyes, impressed on either side 

 ■with a deep groove, which, commencing just above the insertion of the 

 antennae, curves obliquely outwards and upwards to the upper edge of 

 the eye ; antermse (their base excepted), apex of jaws, and a spot on the 

 labrum black ; eyes naiTowly oblong, also black. Thorax impressed on 

 either side with three deep fovese, the hinder one smaller than the 

 rest, and attached to the basal margin, base with a short longitudinal 

 impression on either side and a small round fovea in the middle, the 

 latter sometimes obsolete, central portion of disk in front more or less 

 distinctly transversely depressed, sometimes also impressed with a 

 longitudinal gi'oove ; surface sparingly impressed with deep punctures, 

 forming on the sides short irregular rows. Scutellum subtrigonate. 

 Elytra broader than the thorax, oblong, sides parallel, apex subacutely 

 roimded, sm-face covered with large, irregularly confluent yellow spots ; 

 each elytron impressed with eleven rows of deep punctures, the first 

 row short, striae near the outer margin sulcata, their interspaces sulcate ; 

 towards the apex of the elytron, where the surface is broadly excavated, 

 all the interspaces are thickened, subcostate, and covered with indi- 

 stinct transverse wiinkles. 



Podontia ? hasalis. 



P. ovata, valde convexa, fulva, nitida, antennis nigris, tarsis fuscis ; tho- 

 raee laevi, fere impunctato, utrinque prope marginem obsolete excavato : 



