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Var. Elytra black, each with two pale yellow spots. 
Length 1 1/4 line. 
Head impunctate, black, the frontal tubercles rather broad and 
flat, bounded by a transverse shallow groove behind, clypeus 
extending into a distinctly raised ridge between the antennæ, 
labrum and palpi black, antennæ extending rather below the 
middle of the elytra, black, the lower four joints flavous, basal joint 
long, second and third joint short and equal, fourth as long as the 
preceding two joints together, thorax transverse, twice as broad 
as long, the sides very slightly rounded, the angles rather obtuse, 
the surface finely and closely punctured, with an obsolete shallow 
depression at each side, scutellum black, shining, elytra parallel, 
extremely closely and finely punctured, flavous, with three trans- 
verse dark bands, the first at the base, widened towards the suture, 
the second one at the middle, narrow and of equal width and the 
third at the extreme apex, these bands extend to the sides and are 
connected with the similarly coloured lateral margin; the pygidium 
is likewise black, the femora and the abdomen flavous, tibiæ and tarsi 
fuscous, the metatarsus of the posterior legs longer than the follo- 
wing joints, elytral epipleuræ indistinct below the middle. 
Hab. Belgaum, S. Bombay. 
This species has the elytral bands more or less connected, so 
that in the variety there are two pale yellow round spots, at the 
middle and near the apex, placed on a black ground colour, bat 
when the pale colour predominates, the black portion consists of 
three narrow transverse black bands; it may be that this form is 
the real variety and the other, the normal one. 
Monolepta indica n. sp. 
Testaceous or pale flavous, the. base of the head, the terminal 
joints of the antennæ and the breast black, thorax extremely 
minutely punctured, elytra very closely and finely punctate, the 
margins narrowly obscure piceous. 
Length 1 1/2 line. 
Narrowly elongate and parallel, the head impunctate, black at 
the vertex, the frontal tubercles, strongly raised as well as the 
clypeus, the latter and the labrum piceous, antennæ extending 
beyond the middle of the elytra, black, the lower four joints 
flavous, second and third joint small, fourth and following joints 
elongate, pubescent, thorax twice as broad as long, the sides and 
the posterior margin slightly rounded, the surface extremely finely 
punctured, with a scarcely perceptible depression at each side, 
scutellum black, elytra very closely and more distinetly punctured 
