134 CHBYSOMELID.S;. 



Body beneath clothed with dense yellow pubescence. Tarsi broad 

 and robust, first joint twice as long as second. 



Length 4| mm. 



Hob. Southern Bombay: Madura. Type in Coll. H. E. 

 Andrewes. 



In coloration similar to Gynandrophthulma fabrei, Lefev., 

 but the entire disc of the elytra is black, the antennae and legs 

 are differently coloured, and the thorax is finely granulate and 

 punctured. 



Genus ASPIDOLOPHA. 



Aspidolopha, Lacord. Mon. Phytoph. ii, 1848, p. 252 ; Chapuis, Gen. 

 Coleopt. x, 1874, p. 122. 



Type, A. trimaculata, Fabr., from India. 



Range. India and Malayan Islands. 



Body short and robust, more or less narrowed posteriorly. 

 Head generally with a band of pubescence in front of the eyes. 

 Thorax short, strongly transverse and narrowed in front. 

 Scutellum large, often carinate at apex. Elytra with very 

 strongly produced epipleural lobes, not covering the pygidiuin. 

 Abdomen often greatly inflated, protruding beyond the elytra at 

 the sides. Legs feeble, first joint of tarsi slightly longer than the 

 second. 



Of somewhat peculiar short and compact shape, distinguished 

 by the short and anteriorly narrowed thorax, the strong epipleural 

 lobes of the elytra, carinate scutellum, and free pygidium. 



239. Aspidolopha caerulea, Jac. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, xxxii, 1892, 

 p. 882. 



Head, breast, apex of tibiae and the tarsi black ; thorax flavous 

 with central black band ; elytra metallic dark blue ; beneath 

 fulvous ; pygidium fuscous in the middle. 



Head smooth, impunctate, with three small foveae placed tri- 

 angulariy ; labrum black ; antennae extending to the base of the 

 thorax, basal three joints flavous. Thorax transverse, very short, 

 more than twice as broad as long, sides rounded, narrowed in 

 front, posterior margin only slightly produced in the middle; 

 surface entirely impunctate, flavous at the sides ; middle area with 

 a longitudinal medially widened black band. Scutellum large, 

 smooth. Elytra fulvous, with a triangular large central fuscous 

 band, moderately convex, puncturation scarcely perceptible, basal 

 lobe slightly produced, pygidium not covered. Abdominal seg- 

 ments with or without fuscous spots on the sides and middle. 



Length 4 mm. 



Hob. Burma : Karennee. 



