PEPEEONOTA. 3$ 



4. Peperonota harringtoni. (PL IV, figs. 37, 38.) 



Peperonota harringtoni, Westw., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. iv, 1847,. 



p. 298, pi. 22, fig. 1 ; Lacord. Gen. Col. iii, 1856, p. 349, pi. 34, 



fig. 1. 

 P. harringtoni, var. bicornis, Ohaus, Deutsche Ent. Zeits. 1913,. 



p. 506. 



Chestnut-brown, with the antennae, femora, sometimes most or 

 all of the lower surface and the pygidium, the outer part or the 

 whole of the pronotum, and an indefinite speckling upon the elytra 

 tawny yellow. 



The head is rugose, except upon the vertex, where it is smooth 

 and shining. The pronotum is unevenly and rather sparsely 

 punctured and very smooth and shining, the elytra being dull and 

 shallowly and irregularly pitted. 



cJ . The scutellum is very shining, but coarsely granular ."r^The 

 elytra are very opaque, except the depressed area adjoining the 



Fig. 8. 

 eronota harringtoni, 



Fig. 9. 

 Peperonota harringtoni, 5 , 



scutellum, which is shining and bears a few fine punctures and 

 granules. The pygidium is convex, shining, and very finely and 

 sparsely punctured. The femora and the edges of the abdominal 

 segments are fringed with long tawny hair. 



$ . The scutellum is smooth and shining, with scanty punc- 

 tures, the elytra shining in the neighbourhood of the scutellum 

 and only slightly opaque elsewhere. The pygidium is nearly flafe, 

 vertical, finely and rather rugosely punctured, and clothed, like the 

 abdomen, with rather coarse, but not thick, tawny hair. 



Length, 17-22 mm.; breadth, 10-13 mm. ..$., ., 



SIKKIM: Kungbong Valley (W. K. Webb, June); BHUTAN: 

 Pedong (L. Durel Oberthur Coll.); ASSAM: Khasij? Hills 

 (according to Ohaus). 



Type unknown ; co-type in the Geneva Museum. 



Dr. Ohaus has described a variety of this species (as subsp. 

 bicornis) which may possibly, though not probably, belong to the 



