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240. Aspidolopha COStata, Jac. Ann. Mus. Civ. Geneva, xxxii, 1892, 

 p. 881. 



Metallic blue ; antennae more or less piceous ; elytra with a 

 flavous transverse band behind the middle. 



Broadly convex and nearly parallel-sided ; head finely rugose 

 between the eyes with a rather deep rounded depression ; 

 antennae with the basal three joints obscure fulvous, third joint 

 very small, rest triangularly dilated. Thorax strongly transverse, 

 narrowed in front, posterior angles rounded ; median lobe strongly 

 produced, rounded ; surface obliquely depressed at the sides near 

 the base, sparingly punctured on the disc, very closely and strongly 

 on the sides. Scutellum very large, pubescent, bluish, apex 

 longitudinally carinate. Elytra blue, very convex, subcylindrical, 

 with ten rows of longitudinal costse, interstices strongly gemi- 

 nately punctured; the fulvous band broad, regular in shape 

 and slightly oblique, placed immediately behind the base and ex- 

 tending to the middle. Underside sparingly pubescent ; abdomen 

 strongly inflated. Pygidium closely punctured, with a central 

 ridge. 



Var. Elytra flavous, the basal margin narrowly, the apex 

 broadly blue. 



Length 6 mm. 



Hob, Burma : Karennee. Tenasserim. 



A. costata differs from all of its congeners by the sculpture of 

 the elytra. 



241. Aspidolopha apicalis, sp. n. 



Blackish-blue ; tibiae and tarsi and the apex of the elytra 

 fulvous. 



Head finely punctured between the eyes, the latter very large, a 

 narrow band of pubescence in front of their interior edge ; labrum 

 piceous ; palpi fulvous ; antenna? extending to the base of the 

 thorax, black, basal three joints fulvous, fourth and following 

 joints strongly transverse. Thorax about twice as broad as long, 

 sides feebly rounded, base with a short depression near the 

 posterior angles ; surface strongly punctured at the sides and near 

 the basal margin. Scutellum with a strongly raised central ridge 

 at apex and a few punctures at base. Elytra closely and 

 almost rugosely punctured, the puncturation much finer near the 

 apex, the latter itself fulvous, the colour forming a round spot ; 

 rest of the surface dark blue. Body beneath closely covered 

 with silky grey pubescence. Pygidium with a central ridge in 

 the female. This sex has a broader shape and a more inflated 

 abdomen. 



Length 4-5 mm. 



Hub. Assam : Patkai Mts. (Brit. Mus.). 



Easily distinguished by the coloration of the elytra. 



