128 CHRTSOMELID^. 



opaque. Underside and legs clothed with long silvery pubescence ; 

 tarsi rather robust, first joint scarcely twice as long as second, 

 triangularly widened. 



J . Elytra with two spots below base and transverse band 

 behind the middle, not extending to margins, black. Thorax and 

 legs black. 



Far. Elytra entirely fulvous. 



Length 5|-6| mm. 



Hob. Nilgiris (Capt. Doivning). 



The peculiar finely wrinkled and opaque elytra differ from those 

 of any other species of the genus. Which, of the forms, the one 

 with spotted or the one with the unspotted elytra, is the normal one 

 cannot be decided at present for lack of material. Of the male 

 only a single specimen is before me ; of the female there are four 

 unspotted and one spotted examples, in all these the legs are 

 entirely black. 



Elytra with transverse bands. 



229. JEtheomorpha virgula, sp. n. 



Pale fulvous ; terminal joints of antennae, the breast and the 

 pygidium blackish ; elytra \vith a spot near the, scutellum and a 

 transverse band near the apex black, the latter strongly widened 

 near the outer margins. 



In shape elongate, posteriorly slightly widened. Head impunctate, 

 with three small foveae placed triangularly ; antenna extending to 

 the base of the elytra, the basal four joints flavous, the rest nearly 

 black ; third and following joints transverse. Thorax about twice 

 as broad as long, slightly narrowed anteriorly ; posterior angles 

 distinct, the sides nearly straight, the surface entirely impunctate, 

 without any depressions ; median lobe very slightly produced, 

 perfectly straight. Scutellum broadly triangular, smooth. Elytra 

 strongly punctured in very closely arranged irregular rows : they 

 do not cover the pygidium but have distinct humeral lobes ; a 

 round spot near the scutellum and a posterior band black, the 

 latter abruptly and strongly widened at the sides extends 

 upwards along the lateral margins as far as the middle. Abdomen 

 strongly swollen, finely pubescent, fulvous or black ; the pygidium 

 of the latter colour in the dark specimens. 



For. Elytral spot absent, body beneath black. 



Length 44 mm. 



Hob. Northern India. Type in Brit. Mus. 



230. JEtheomorpha pictipennis, Jac. (Gynandrophthalma) Ann, Mus. 



Civ. Geneva, xxxii, 1892, p. 883. 



Pulvous ; base of head and terminal joints of antenna? black ; 

 thorax with four black spots ; elytra with a sinuate transverse 

 band at base, another behind the middle and the lateral and apical 

 margins, black. 



Short and broadly ovate ; head with a few minute punctures 

 between eyes ; clypeus fulvous ; antenna? not extending to base 



