COLOBASPIS. 



constricted in front and at their base, produced just behind the 

 middle into a stout subacute process ; above shining, grooved in 

 front and on either side at the base, the anterior groove widened 

 and angulate in the centre, sloping backwards down the disc 

 nearly to its middle ; surface finely and distantly punctured, the 



Fig. 17. Colobaspis speciosus. 



lateral margins yellow. Scutellum black, its apex notched. Elytra 

 slightly depressed along the suture, shoulders prominent, surface 

 distinctly punctured, sparingly covered with fulvous hairs ; an 

 ovate patch on the shoulders, a broad transverse band across 

 the middle, produced slightly along the suture anteriorly and 

 posteriorly, and a large subtrigonal patch behind the middle, black. 

 Beneath black, abdomen (a large central patch excepted) yellow ; 

 the metasternal tubercles at the base with a small black spot. 

 Femora piceous, their apices with several yellow spots. 



Length 10-12 mm. 



Hdb. Northern India. 



173. Colobaspis quinquemaculatus, Baly (Temnaspis), A. M. N. H. 



(3) iii, 1859, p. 206. 

 Megalopua 7-punctatus, Hope, Grays Zool. Miscell. 1859, p. 28. 



Fulvous, pubescent; thorax with one, elytra with two black 

 spots each, the pleura?, a spot on the abdomen and on the posterior 

 femora, black. 



Elongate, parallel-sided, convex, covered with coarse hairs ; head 

 coarsely punctured, front excavate. Thorax one-third broader 

 than long, sides narrowed anteriorly, constricted at the apex and 

 extreme base, produced near the latter into an indistinct obtuse 

 protuberance ; above convex, grooved at the base and apex on 

 either side ; surface irregular, shining fulvous, coarsely and sub- 

 remotely punctured, central portion gibbous, covered with a large 



