92 CHBYSOMELIDJE. 



slightly angulate in the middle ; surface deeply but not very closely 

 punctured, covered with coarse erect hairs. Scutellum triangular, 

 its apex emarginate, sparsely punctured, shining black, edge 

 fulvous. Elytra broader than the thorax, apex rounded, dehiscent 

 at the suture, above convex, deeply punctured, covered with 

 long subdepressed hairs; shining, a narrow semilunate apical 

 patch rufo-f ulvous. Beneath : shining rufo-fulvous, pleurae nigro- 

 piceous ; legs (the posterior femora excepted) pale yellow; hinder 

 femora strongly incrassate, ovate, armed near the apex beneath 

 with two acute spines. 



Length 8 mm. 



Hab. Nepal. 



171. Colobaspis insignis, Saly (Temnaspis), A. M. N. H. (3) Hi, 1859, 



p. 208. 



Fulvous, villose ; the anterior and intermediate tarsi piceous ; 

 elytra purplish-black, a narrow semilunate patch at their apices 

 rufo-fulvous. 



Elongate, parallel-sided, shining fulvous, pubescent; head deeply 

 punctured, sparsely so on the face, front impressed with a deep 

 fovea ; antennae more robust than in G. nigriceps. Thorax sub- 

 cylindrical, sides constricted in front and at the base, produced 

 near the latter into an obtuse tubercle, above shining, grooved at 

 the apex and at the extreme base, anterior groove dilated and 

 angulate at the middle ; surface deeply but not closely punctured, 

 sparingly covered with erect hairs. Elytra longer than in 

 (J. nigriceps, broader than the thorax, above convex, less deeply 

 and closely punctured than in the last species, covered with 

 long subdepressed hairs, apical margin rufo-fulvous. Posterior 

 femora as in the preceding species. 



Length 10 mm. 



Hub. Northern India. 



Longer and narrower than the preceding insect. 



172. Colobaspis speciOSUS, Baly (Temnaspis), A. M. N. H. (3) iii, 



1859, p. 204. 



Black, sparingly pubescent ; base and apex of abdomen, the 

 metasternal tubercles, sides of thorax and the elytra, flavous ; a spot 

 on the shoulders, another near apex and a band at middle, black. 



c? . Posterior femora strongly incrassate, bispinose. 



2 . Posterior femora scarcely thickened, armed with one spine ; 

 abdomen flavous with central black patch. 



Elongate, parallel-sided, subdepressed along the suture, shining 

 black, sparingly covered with short hairs, the pubescence on the 

 under surface longer and more distinct. Head shining, sparsely 

 punctured on the vertex, transversely grooved between the eyes, 

 anterior margin of clypeus fulvous, edge of labrum clothed with 

 fulvous hairs ; antennae black, rather longer than the head and 

 thorax. Thorax scarcely broader than long, subcylindrical, sides 



