New Species of Phytophagous Insects. 155 



impressis, punctis fiindo cupreis, prope suturam seriatim — 

 ad latera confuse — dispositis. 

 Long. 4| lin. 



Ovate, convex, metallic green, with a more or less distinct 

 coppery tint above. Head finely punctured, forehead angularly 

 impressed; antennte black, basal joints dark aeneous. Thorax 

 twice broader than long ; sides straight and nearly parallel, 

 rounded and narrowed in front ; surface coarsely and deeply 

 punctured, punctures irregularly confluent. Elytra rather broader 

 than the thorax, convex, surface impressed witli numerous large 

 deeply excavated punctures, more or less cupreous at their ex- 

 treme base, somewhat distantly arranged in rows near the suture, 

 irregularly placed towards the sides; interstices slightly swollen, 

 more especially towards the lateral border, smooth and shining, 

 here and there impressed with a few fine punctures. Four ante- 

 rior tarsi with their basal joint dilated in the male. 



Hab. Brazil. 



Genus Paralina, Baly. 



Antennae filiformes, articulo primo incrassato, secundo parvo, 



tertio elongato, cseteris leniter compressis. 

 Labriim transversum. 

 MandibulcB subtrigonae, apice bidentatae. 

 Palpi maxillares clavati, articulo ultimo truncato : lahiales parvi, 



articulo ultimo obtuso. 

 Mentum transversum. 



Caput sub-declive, brevlter triangulare, ocuUs anguste oblongis. 

 Thorax transversus, lateribus fere rectis. 

 Sculellum semiovatum. 



Eltjira ovata, postice leniter ampliata, convexa. 

 Pedes sub-elongati, (arsis siraplicibus. 

 Prosternum longitudinaliter elevatum. 



Mesosternum parvum, perpendiculare, metasterno ocultatum. 

 Metnsternum antrorsum inter coxas intermedias ad prosterni 



basin protensum. 

 Corpus oblongum, convexum. 



Type — Chrysomela Iiidica, Hope, Zool. Mis. 29, from Nepaul ; 

 also described under the names of 



Chrysomela Caschmierensis, Redtenb. in Hugel, Kaschen. iv. 

 558. 



Lina data, Stiil, Ofvers. af Kongl. Veten. Akad. Forh. 1857, 

 p. GO (1858). 



