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elytral epipleuræ broad, their inner margin near the apex with a 
fringe of very short hairs, underside and legs cupreous, varied 
with metallic green, tarsi broad, dark blue, the first abdominal 
segment longer than the metasternum, prosternum slightly longi- 
tudinally sulcate, the male organ, cylindrical, very strongly curved, 
gradually narrowed towards the apex, the latter itself truncate, 
the upper cavity confined to the apex bounded above by the straight 
anterior margin of t he upper surface. 
ab. Chamba, Dalhousie in the Himalayas, also Ishang (China). 
I give here a renewed description of this species described by 
me in the Entomologist 1890. The Indian specimens do not seem 
to differ sufficiently from those from China which served mefor the 
type, and as is the case with most spacies of this genus, the 
tendency to variation in colour and sculpturing is great. In 
comparing the species carefully with C’. coerulans Scrib. which 
is found also in Syria and Armenia I am now iaclined to believe 
that the present insect is nothing but the variety ©. subfastuosa 
Motsch. or var. angelica Reiche which seems to have therefore 
a very extended habitat. I am at all events unable to find distinc- 
tive characters for a specific separation from those varieties which 
at the time were not known to me. - 
CHRYSOMELA AURATA Suffr. 
I refer specimens from Belgaum and Canara to this species, of 
which Suffrian has given a short diagnosis which applies however 
equally well to several other Indian species ; in the Baly collection 
an Indian Chrysomela is labelled C. aurata with which the 
specimens before me agree as well as with Suffrian’s diagnosis. 
The insect is of a somewhat narrow and posteriorly pointed shape, 
brownish aeneous, it resembles greatly C. separata Baly in the 
sculpturing, but the thorax is less transverse and its sides not so 
strongly rounded, the latter are likewise variolose-punctate but 
the disc is scarcely impressed with any punctures, the elytra are 
rather more finely punctured and the punctuation is more distinctly 
arranged in double rows, which are plainly visible below the 
middle, forming as usual four double rows; the male organ is 
cylindrical and strongly convex or curved, the apex rather sud- 
denly constricted and truncate, the upper cavity elongate, extending 
almost as far as the middle, although getting gradually shallower. 
CHRYSOMELA BonvouLorrir Baly. 
Aeneous, thorax variolose-punctate at the sides, the disc very 
sparingly but strongly punctured, elytra with four double rows of 
