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tioned in the present j^aper are non-metallic, but I possess 

 several others undescribed, brilliantly metallic, from 

 Northern India. 



Melospila hifasciata, Motsch. 



Log. supra cit. p. 24. 



Hab. — Japan ; also Northern China and Manchuria, 



'- Melospila consociata. 



Oblonga, nigra, nitida, thorace subnitido, grosse punc- 

 tato ; elytris punctato-sti'iatis, punctis in striis confuse 

 ]iositis, interstitiis distincte sed leviter punctatis ; utrisque 

 fasciis tribus undulatis, sutura abbreviatis, flavis. 



Long. 4 — 4^ lin. 



i/«^».— Hakodadi (Mr. Moor). 



Vertex deeply but not closely punctm-ed, excavated and 

 rugose just above the encarpsD, the latter raised, smooth 

 and shining ; clypeus raised, ti'igonate. Thorax twice as 

 broad at the base as long ; sides narrowly margined, nearly 

 straight and somewhat diverging from the base to beyond 

 the middle, thence obliquely converging and slightly 

 rounded to the apex ; anterior angles slightly produced, 

 obtuse; surface subnitidous, finely granulose-punctate, 

 deeply impressed with large round fovea?, crowded on the 

 sides, more scattered on the disk. Elytra broadly obloDg, 

 convex, deeply punctate-striate, the punctures irregidarly 

 arranged on the strife, more regular and less deeply im- 

 pressed towards the ajjex, interspaces finely but distinctly 

 punctured; each elytron with three broad, in-egularly- 

 imdulate, yellow fascia? ; the first below the base, extending 

 upwards on the shoulder to the basal margin, the second 

 just below the middle of the disk, and the third half-way 

 between the middle and the apex, the last sends several 

 irregular spurs upwards fi-om its anterior margin. 



31. consociata may be at once kuown from M. hifas- 

 ciata by the finely gramdose-punctate thorax, together 

 ■v\dth the much greater number of large round fovea? 

 covering its surface; the shape of this segment is also 

 entirely different, the sides being straighter and more 

 divergent, and the reflexed border much narrower. 



Genus Aulac'ophora, Chevr. 

 Rhapidopalpa, auctor. ; Joan. L'Abeille, iii. DO. 

 I have adopted Chevrolat's name Aulacophora for the 



