88 CHRYSOMELIDJE. 



and the posterior tibiae are curved and widened at the apex. 

 Very closely allied and perhaps only a variety of T. insignis, Baly, 

 but with entirely black elytra. 



164. Temnaspis nigroplagiata, Jac. Ann. Mtis. Civ. Geneva, xxxii, 



1892, p. 876. 



Fulvous ; a spot on the head, another on the middle of the 

 thorax, one or two on the posterior femora and the metasternum, 

 black ; elytra with a transverse spot at the base and another 

 behind the middle black, the apex flavous. 



Head finely rugosely punctured with a triangular central black 

 spot and a smaller spot between the antennae, the latter obscure 

 fulvous, the first four joints shining, the others opaque. Thorax 

 rather strongly narrowed in front, about half as broad as long, 

 the posterior angles oblique ; the surface rather closely and ir- 

 regularly punctured, longitudinally depressed at the middle, 

 a round spot on the sides and a more elongate subtriangular 

 spot on the middle of the disc, black ; the latter clothed with 

 silky greyish pubescence. Scutellum black, pubescent. Elytra 

 very closely and finely punctured anteriorly, the puncturation 

 nearly obsolete near the apex, the disc fulvous, a transverse 

 oblique band at the base slightly narrowed at the suture and 

 another slightly more rounded band behind the middle, also the 

 lateral margins near the apex, black, the space below the second 

 band flavous. Breast, metasternum, and the abdominal segments 

 on the middle (the apical segment excepted) as well as a spot on 

 the anterior coxae and the posterior and intermediate femora, black; 

 extreme apex of the latter flavous, the anterior portion fulvous ; 

 the intermediate and posterior tibiae strongly curved ; the meta- 

 sternum conically raised on each side ; posterior femora toothed on 

 each side near the apex. 



Length 9 mm. 



Hab. Burma : Karennee. 



The amount of black on the underside is variable. The species 

 is very closely allied to T. quinquemaculata, Baly, and differs only 

 in the black spot on the head and in the colour of the legs. It is 

 possibly only a local race of that insect. 



165. Temnaspis downesi, Baly, A. M. N. H. (2) v, 1859, p. 205, 



pi. v, tig. 5. 



Fulvous ; pubescent ; apical joints of antennae, a spot on the 

 thorax and another oblique spot on each elytron, the pleurae, an 

 abdominal spot and a spot on the posterior femora, black. 



Shining fulvous, the whole body covered with coarse fulvous hairs ; 

 the seven terminal joints of the antennae, an oblong vitta on the 

 disc of the thorax and a large subquadrate patch across the middle 

 of the elytra black. Head closely punctured, impressed between the 

 eyes by a deep longitudinal fossa. Thorax rather broader than 



