ASPIDOLOPHA. 137 



Closely allied to A. sublcevicollis, Duviv., but distinguished by the 

 strong foveolate puncturation of the thorax which also, together 

 with its smaller size, separates the species from the preceding 

 one. 



244. Aspidolopha ventralis, Jac. (Ooptocephala) Entomologist Suppl. 



Fulvous ; head, antennae and a spot at base of thorax black ; 

 elytra dark violaceous ; breast, apex of tibiae and the tarsi 

 fuscous. 



Head with a few fine punctures ; clypeus more or less fulvous 

 anteriorly, triangularly depressed in front ; antennae with the 

 basal three joints fulvous, third joint extremely small, following 

 joints transverse. Thorax twice as broad as long, narrowed 

 anteriorly, anterior margin concave, lateral margins straight, disc 

 with a short transverse groove or depression near the posterior 

 angles, impunctate, a transverse large blackish spot in the middle. 

 Scutellum broad, black, without central ridge. Elytra strongly 

 lobed at the base, subcylindrical, not widened posteriorly, strongly 

 punctured in very irregular closely approximate rows that are 

 almost obsolete near the apex; pygidium black in the middle. 

 Body beneath pale fulvous, clothed with short yellow pubescence ; 

 last abdominal segment in the middle and the breast darkened. 



Length 4 mm. 



Hab. Assam : Patkai Mts. (Brit. Mus.\ 



Closely allied to A. ccerulea, Jac., but distinguished by the 

 strong elytral puncturation, the less transverse and longer thorax. 

 In some specimens the breast and the pygidium are entirely 

 fulvous. The species was previously described by me as a 

 Coptocephala, but I find now that it cannot be placed in that 

 genus, as the structure of the head is quite different, the elytra 

 distinctly lobed, and the pygidium uncovered. 



245. Aspidolopha aeneicollis, Jac. Ann. Soc. Ent. Bely. xlvii, 1903, 



p. 87. 



Black ; head and thorax greenish-aeneous ; elytra flavous, sutural 

 and lateral margins and a humeral spot blackish ; base of femora 

 piceous, tarsi flavous. 



Head closely and strongly rugose, opaque; clypeus shining, 

 sparingly punctured ; eyes widely separated, feebly notched at 

 the lower margins ; labrum piceous ; antennae scarcely extending 

 to base of thorax, basal three joints more or less fulvous beneath, 

 fourth and following joints transversely subquadrate. Thorax 

 twice as broad as long, slightly depressed at the sides, lateral 

 margins rounded, median lobe feebly produced, straight ; angles 

 rather obtuse, surface rugosely punctured, the punctures deep 



