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a distinct tooth or angle before the middle, posterior margin broadly 
rounded, but slightly produced at the middle, the surface entirely 
impunctate, even when seen under a strong lens, scutellum broader 
than long, black, elytra wider at the base than the thorax, slightly 
widened at the middle with a narrow margin, finely and semiregu- 
larly punctured, the apex impunctate, breast and abdomen black 
with aslight bluish tint, the legs more distinctly metallic blue, 
the metatarsus of the posterior legs as long as the following joints 
together, the penis rather long and slender, not strongly curved, 
the apex slightly widened into a triangular point, the upper cavity 
long and extending nearly to the middle. 
Æab. Burmah. 
A small species of a pretty metallic blue colour, which may be 
known by the similarly coloured legs and the entirely impunctate 
thorax; wings are present. 
Phyllotreta flaviventris n. sp. 
Black, thorax fulvous, minutely punctured, elytra closely and 
more strongly punctured, black, abdomen flavous. 
Length 1 1/1 line. 
Of elongate and parallel shape, the head black, impunctate, the 
frontal tubercles small, trigonate, the carina strongly raised, not 
very sharp, palpi piceous, the terminal joint acute, antennæ nearly 
extending to the middle of the elytra, black, the lower joints 
slightly marked with fulvous below, second and third joint short, 
equal, fourth rather longer than the following joint, thorax one 
half broader than long, the sides slightly rounded and gradually 
narrowed anteriorly, the posterior angles strongly oblique, the 
anterior ones slightly produced ard thickened, the surface rather 
flattened, extremely minutely punctured, fulvous, scutellum black, 
smooth, elytra wider at the base than the thorax, closely, finely 
but distinctly punctured; the anterior legs more or less stained 
with fulvous, posterior femora very strongly incrassate, black as 
well as their tibiae, the latter with a distinct spur; abdomen 
entirely or partly flavous. 
Hab. Belgaum, S. Bombay. 
Phyllotreta bombayensis n. sp. 
Pale fulvous or testaceous, the antennæ, breast and the legs 
more or less black, thorax impunctate, elytra scarcely perceptibly 
punctured, testaceous, the sutural and lateral margins and the 
apex black. 
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