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sion at the middle, very finely and closely punctured, seutellum 
black, elytra convex, rather more distinctly punctured than the 
thorax and as closely so, black, shining, their epipleuræ indistinct 
below the middle, legs fulvous, the metatarsus of the posterior 
ones long, the breast and the abdomen at the middle, black. 
Tab. Kanara, S. Bombay. 
This Aonolepta resembles in coloration very nearly several 
other Eastern forms, especially Candezea nigripennis Jac. from 
New Guinea, but the elytral epipleuræ in that species are conti- 
nued below the middle and the thorax is impunctate; the present 
species in moreover distinguished by the black elytra and the 
similarly coloured breast, this colour also extending to a greater 
or smaller degree to the abdominal segments; a good many 
specimens were obtained, 
MONOLEPTA MACULOSA Allard. 
À most variable species in regard to colour ; the following are 
the varieties before me. 
Testaceous, the base of the elytra with a dark brown subqua- 
drate spot (typical form). 
Elytra with another spot near the apex. 
Elytra with all the margins narrowly piceous. 
Elytra entirely testaceous. 
Allard has described his type from the same locality, Belgaum, 
where M. Andrewes specimens were obtained, others are before 
me from Kanara. To the description of the author I may add, that 
the antennæ have the second and third joints rather short, the 
latter is however slightly longer in the female than in the male, 
the thorax shows a more or less distinct transverse depression at 
each side and is twice as broad as long with the sides nearly 
straight, the male organ is long and slender and gradually nar- 
rowed at the apex, the latter of which is truncate, the underside 
likewise varies from pale to nearly black; the variety in which 
the elytraare without spots buthave a narrow piceous sutural and 
lateral margin, looks at first sight as a totally different species, 
but some intermediate forms before me and the examination of 
the penis prooves the identity of both forms. 
MONOLOPTA ORIENTALIS Jac. var. konbirensis Duviv. 
Several specimens which I received from M. Duvivier as 
varieties of his 27. £onbirensis are identical with my A. orientalis 
described in 1889, but the typical form of Duvivier’s species is 
