100 



CHRYSOMELIM;. 



Head impunctate, feebly transversely grooved between eyes; 

 clypeus rather strongly semi- 

 circularly emarginate at apex, 

 extreme margin black as are also 

 the labrum and apex of man- 

 dibles ; antennae extended to 

 hase of thorax, fourth and 

 following joints very moder- 

 ately transversely widened. 

 Thorax twice as broad as long, 

 lateral margins nearly straight, 

 posterior angles distinct, pos- 

 terior margin sinuate at sides, 

 median lobe feeble, straight, 

 surface entirely impunotate. 

 Scutellum triangular. Elytra 

 subcylindrical, parallel - sided, 

 opaque, very finely punctured in indistinct rows, nearly obsolete 

 posteriorly, the black spot placed near the suture and apex. 

 Anterior legs elongate with elongate tarsi, first joint of latter 

 longer than second. Breast and abdomen very finely pubescent. 

 Length 4| mm. 



Hob. India : Chupra (Coll. Jacoby). 



In the female the legs are, as usual, shorter and of equal length. 

 The elytra show occasionally another very small obsolete spot 

 below the base. 



Fig. 21. Miopristis bimaculata. 



Genus JETHEODACTYLA. 



^Etheodactyla, Lacord. Mon. Phytoph. ii, 1848, p. 188 ; Chapuis, Gen. 

 CoUopt. x, 1874, p. 130. 



Type, ^E. lateralis, Lacord., from India. 



Range. India. 



Oblong, glabrous above ; head short and ovate; eyes very large, 

 elongate, nearly entire ; mandibles short. Thorax subcylindrical, 

 narrowed in iront, sides straight, posterior angles obtuse, feebly 

 lobed in the middle. Scutellum very large. Legs rather long and 

 robust, anterior legs distinctly longer than the others ; first joint of 

 tarsi as long as the following two united, first joint of second pair 

 of tarsi very large and convex, that of the posterior legs less so. 



Erected for an insect that has most of the structural characters 

 that belong to the genus Clytra. The first joint of the tarsus 

 of the intermediate legs is, however, different in both sexes in 

 .&iheodactyla. 



179. JEtheodactyla lateralis, Lacord. Mon. Phytoph. ii, 1848, p. 189. 



Eeddish-fulvous ; breast, abdomen and legs black. Elytra with 

 a large triangular black patch at lateral margins near apex. 



Head nearly smooth, depressed between the eyes ; antennae 



