Mr. J. S. Baly on the Phytophaga. 457 



distinctly punctured ; the chief difference, however, with the excep- 

 tion of that of colour, is in the shape of the thorax, tlie angles of 

 which arc distinctly more prominent than in N. variabilis, the pos- 

 terior beina: almost subacute. 



Genus Pstlliodes, Latr. 



Psylliodes Brettinghami. 



P. obovata, supra casrulea, nitida ; antennis nigris, basi fulvis ; subtus 

 obscure picea, purpureo micans, pedibiis pallida fiiho-piceis ; vertice 

 fere impunctato, facie inferiore rufo-picea ; thorace punctato, a basi ad 

 apiceni angustato, lateribus rectis, apice oblique truncatis ; scutello 

 subtrigonato, acuto, nitido-piceo ; eljlris fortiter pimctato-striatis, striis 

 ad latus subsidcatis. — Long. If lin. 



Ilab. India. Collected by Mr. Brettingham. 



Stout, obovate, shining blue above, body beneath obscure rufo-piceous 

 with a pui-ple reflexion ; legs pale piceous, the apex of the four anterior 

 tibiae, together vsdth the tarsi of the same legs, nigro-fuscous. Head 

 triangular, vertex shining, nearly impunctate, lower portion of face 

 rufo-piceous, sparingly clothed vdth pale-fidvous hairs ; antennae black, 

 the basal three joints pale fulvous. Thorax nearly a third broader at 

 the base than long, narrowed from base to apex ; sides straight, ob- 

 liquely truncate at their apex ; disk smooth, deeply but not very closely 

 pimctured. Scutellum shining piceous. El3i:ra much broader than 

 the thorax, ovate, narrowed from a short distance below the shoulders 

 to the apex, the latter subacutely rounded, each elytron impressed with 

 close regular I'ows of deep pmictures, the first row abbreviated before 

 it reaches the middle ; strife on the outer half of the disk (and all 

 towards their apex) indistinctly sulcate, their interstices obsoletely 

 convex, those on the inner disk in front flat, all of them finely but 

 remotely punctm-ed. 



Genus Ackocrypta. (Details, Plate XXI. fig. 5.) 



Corpus breviter ovatum, valde convexum; antennis crassis, longitudine 

 corporis brevioribus, articulis Imo incrassato, 2^0 brevi obconico, S'io 

 iUo fere duplo lougiore, 4*° et 5to pequalibus, singulatim 3t'o paullo lon- 

 gioribus pei"parum incrassatis, Gto ad llmum incrassatis, cla^iim elongatum 

 compressum fonnantibus ; ^jrt^^o>-«<m maxillarvmn articulo penultimo 

 valde inflate, subgloboso, apice truncate; articulo ultimo bre\'issimo, 

 penultimi apici immerse ; oculis prominvilis, integris, ovatis ; epistoma 

 margine antico integi'o. Tliorax transversus, lateribus anguste mar- 

 ginatis, angiUo antico tubercidato. Scide/hon trigonatum. Elytra 

 irregulariter punctata. Pedes simplices ; femorihtis posficis valde incras- 

 satis, subtus canaliculatis ; tibiis ejusdem pai'is dorso non canalicidatis, 

 apice in spinam validam compressam producto ; tarsis postieis ad apicem 



