Mr. J.S. Baly on new Species of Cassidide. 7 
male) I am indebted to the liberality of M. H. Deyrolle, to whom 
I have dedicated it. Professor Boheman’s description of S. cinctus 
is also apparently made from an individual of the same sex, which 
I have never seen,—my specimen of that species (doubtless a female) 
agreeing with Boheman’s insect entirely in colouring, but differing in 
having the elytra oblong, and not narrowed behind, and also in the 
sides of the thorax being less dilated, and rounded and narrowed 
from base to apex. In the present species the elytra are more 
quickly narrowed from their middle to their apex, the latter obtuse ; 
the scutellum also is longer and narrower than in S. cinctus. 
Calopepla Mouhoti. 
C. oblonga, convexa, viridi-cerulea, nitida, antennis nigris; thorace re- 
flexo-marginato, medio profunde canaliculato, utrinque profunde foveo- 
lato ; elytris profunde punctatis, disco irregulariter elevato-reticulatis, 
prope suturam bi-, prope marginem exteriorem unicarinatis.—Long. 
5 lin. 
Hab. Laos ; Siam. 
Oblong, convex, shining metallic greenish-blue. Thorax narrowly 
edged with a reflexed border; sides oblique at their base, sinuate before 
the middle, slightly rotundate-ampliate below the latter, their apex 
regularly rounded, basal angle thickened; disk smooth, its middle 
channeled by a deep longitudinal groove, dilated at its base, either 
side impressed with three or four large deep foveze. Scutellum im- 
pressed near its apex with a shallow fovea. Elytra more than four 
times the length of the thorax, deeply punctured ; each elytron near the 
suture has two raised longitudinal cost, connected here and there by 
short transverse ridges; near the outer border is a third, more irregular 
and less distinct than the two former; remainder of the surface covered 
with a strongly raised reticulation enclosing small irregular deeply punc- 
tured interspaces ; side margin narrowly dilated, deeply punctured. 
The much smaller size, the deeply punctured thorax, and, in ad- 
dition, the nearly uniform colour at once separate this striking and 
beautiful insect from C. Leayana, the common species. 
Epistictia perplexa. 
E. ovata, convexa, rufo-testacea, subtus pallide rufo-picea, antennis nigris ; 
thorace rude punctato, nigro bimaculato; elytris profunde punctatis, 
singulatim prope suturam minus distincte bicarinatis, carina exteriore 
fere obsoleta ; utroque maculis novem metallico-ceruleis notato, macu- 
lis duabus exterioribus margine adfixis.—Long. 43 lin. 
Hab, Laos. 
This species is very closely allied to EH. wiridimaculata, Boh. I 
have, however, separated it for the following reasons :—the spots on 
