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CHRYSOMELIDJE. 



167. Temnaspis clavareaui, S p. n. 



Elavous ; antennae (basal joints excepted), tibiae and tarsi 

 blackish. Elytra with a broad black transverse band at middle. 



Head closely and finely punctured, with a round, deep fovea on 

 the middle ; anterior margin of the clypeus nearly straight, the 

 latter deeply separated from the face by a transverse groove ; 

 antennae extended to the base of the elytra, the basal two 

 joints flavous, the following two piceous, all shining, the others 

 transversely widened, opaque. Thorax about one-half broader 

 than long, the disc slightly swollen on each side, without distinct 

 sulci, posterior angles not produced, slightly tuberculiform, the 

 surface rather strongly and remotely punctured. Scutellum 

 broader than long, the apex with a longitudinal groove. Elytra 

 pale fulvous, with some sparingly distributed black stiff hairs, 

 scarcely more strongly punctured than the thorax, with a broad 

 black band from before the middle to behind the Jatter that extends 

 down some distance at the lateral margins, its lower edge deeply 

 dentate. Beneath and the femora 1 flavous, tibiae and tarsi black ; 

 posterior femora with one long and a shorter tooth near the apex. 



Length. 9 mm. 



Hab. Bengal : Mandar. Type in Mus. Brussels. 



168. Temnaspis oberthuri, Jac. (Leucastea), Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. 

 xxxix, 1895, p. 253. 



Fulvous, pubescent ; antennae and tarsi black; the head with two, 

 the thorax with four black spots; elytra clothed with fulvous and 

 black pubescence, a spot on the shoulders, another at the middle, 

 and a third at the apex, black. 



Parallel-sided; the head clothed with stiff 

 black hairs, an elongate triangular depression 

 and a large black transverse spot in the 

 middle; the vertex with another rounded 

 spot ; eyes triangularly notched ; antennae 

 black, the basal joint fulvous beneath, third 

 joint longer than the second. Thorax twice 

 as broad as long, the sides rounded, the 

 surface with a deep transverse anterior and 

 posterior sulcus and four black spots placed 

 one below the other on the sides, the an- 

 terior spots of which are much larger and 

 more transverse in shape than those placed 

 near the base. Elytra finely punctured, 

 clothed with fulvous pubescence, inter- 

 mixed with black stiff hairs ; each elytron 

 with three black spots, one of which is 

 placed on the shoulder, one transversely 

 on the middle, not extending to the suture, 

 and the third spot larger and more triangular in shape near 



Fig. 16. 

 Temnaspis oberthuri. 



