138 CHBYSOMELIDJE. 



and sometimes confluent, interstices reticulate, a smooth more or 

 less distinct tubercle near the middle of the 

 sides. Scutellum greenish, pubescent at 

 base, very broad, apex carinate. Elytra nar- 

 row, parallel, strongly and rather closely 

 punctured in very irregular rows,, basal 

 lobe at shoulders strongly produced, disc 

 flavous, sides from below base to behind 

 the middle and the suture narrowly 

 piceous, shoulders with a small greenish 

 spot. Body beneath closely pubescent. 

 First joint of the tarsi not much longer 

 than the second joint. 

 Length 4 mm. 

 Hob. Nilgiris. 



This little species at first sight seems scarcely to belong to the 

 genus, on account of its elongate narrow shape and the general 

 shape of the thorax ; on the other hand, the strongly lobed elytral 

 epipleurae, free pygidium and carinate scutellum agree with 

 Aspidolopha, of which it may be considered a somewhat aberrant 

 form. 



Fig. 40. 

 Aspidolopha aneicollis. 



246. Aspidolopha rugosa, Jac. Entomologist Suppl. 1891, p. 32. 



Metallic dark blue ; basal joints of antennae, tibiae and tarsi 



fulvous ; thorax fulvous with a transverse blue band at base ; 



elytra fulvous, a humeral spot, another at apex, and a transverse 



band at middle dark blue. 



Head finely rugose; eyes elongate, the intermediate space with 



a band of fulvous pubescence at each side ; antennae fuscous, 

 extending to base of thorax, basal four 

 joints flavous. Thorax transverse, sides 

 slightly rounded, narrowed in front, surface 

 obsoletely depressed on each side in front 

 of scutellum, rugosely punctured through- 

 out, anterior portion fulvous, base with a 

 transverse blue band that has its anterior 

 edge irregularly dentate and is partly divided 

 in the middle, sides obliquely shaped. 

 Scutellum broad, dark blue, pubescent, its 

 apex carinate. Elytra strongly lobed 

 laterally, closely and strongly punctured, 

 interspaces transversely rugose and wrink- 

 led, with traces of longitudinal costae at 

 apex, the band at middle extending nearly 



to either margin, the apical spot close to suture. Underside 



thickly clothed with yellow pubescence. 

 Length 6 mm. 



Fig. 41. 

 Aspidolopha rugosa. 



