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CHRYSOMELIDJE. 



IS. Pedrillia flavipes, sp. u. 



Entirely pale flavous, antennae piceous, basal joints flavous. 



3 . Head impunctate, shining, clypeus separated by a deep 

 transverse groove ; antennae with basal two joints flavous, rest 

 nearly black, third and fourth elongate, following joints thickened 

 and much shorter. Thorax transverse, sides produced into a broad 

 prolongation, obliquely constricted at base, surface finely and 

 remotely punctured and sparingly pubescent. Elytra closely and 

 strongly punctured and finely pubescent. Underside and legs 

 coloured like the upperside, finely punctured. Posterior femora 

 thickened, their tibiae curved, tarsi broad. 



Length 4 mm. 



Hab. Nilgiris (II. L. Andrewcs). Type in Coll. H. E. Andrewes. 



Differs from P. murrayi in the colour of the elytra, underside 

 and legs, and may possibly represent only a local race of that 

 species. 



Genus ZETJGOPHORA. 



Zeugophora, Kunze, Neue Schr. Naturf. Ges. Halle, ii, pt. 4, 1818, 

 p. 17; Lacord. Mon. Phytoph. i, 1845, p. 233. 



Type, Z. subspinosa, Fabr., from Europe. 

 Range. Europe; India. 



Differs only from Pedrillia in the absence of a transverse sulcus 

 at base of thorax. 



19. Zeugophora indica, Jac. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xlvii, 1903, p. 81. 



Pale fulvous, finely pub- 

 escent ; antennae flavous. 



Head impunctate, antennae 

 flavous, thorax finely punctured 

 and pubescent ; elytra much 

 wider at the base than the 

 thorax, rather closely and 

 strongly punctured, clothed 

 with fulvous pubescence ; apex 

 of each elytron subtruncate. 

 Beneath pale fulvous. Femora 

 thickened, the intermediate and 

 the posterior tibiae strongly 

 curved at the apex, rather 

 thick ; tarsi broad. 



LenytJi o mm. 



Hal). Nilgiris (Coll. Jacoly). 



20. Zeugophora andrewesi, Jac. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xlvii, 1903, p. 82. 

 Fulvous, the antennae (the basal joint excepted), the breast 



and the legs black. Thorax with the sides moderately tuberculate. 



Fig. 5. Zeugophora, indita. 



