A8PIDOLOPHA. 139 



Hob. Sikhim : Mungphu. 



Distinguished by the rugose and feebly costate elytra, the 

 strongly punctured thorax and its blue band ; the elytral band is 

 slightly narrowed at the sides and extends sometimes entirely 

 across the disc to the margins. 



247. Aspidolppha distincta, Duviv. Bull. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxxv, 1891, 



p. xxxii. 



Dark blue ; antennae black, the base testaceous ; thorax partly 

 fulvous or blue ; elytra fulvous, a humeral spot, a larger spot 

 at middle and another subsutural spot 

 near apex, blue ; tibiae more or less 

 testaceous. 



This species is so closely allied to 

 A. rugosa, that it is only necessary to 

 point out the differences. The thorax is 

 less closely punctured and the punctures 

 are larger and deeper, the depressions at 

 the base are much more feeble ; the elytral 

 puncturation is much coarser and the 

 punctures are placed in extremely closely 

 approximate rows, the interstices are 

 Fig. 42. wrinkled here and there, but not trans- 



Aspidolopha distincta. versely rugose, the markings are lighter 

 blue in colour and instead of a trans- 

 verse band there is a large spot. In other respects the two 

 insects are similar. In the type the thorax is described as blue, 

 but the following varieties also have been mentioned : 

 Var. a. Thorax fulvous, with transverse blue basal bands. 

 Var. 6. Like var. a, but without apical elytral spot. 

 Var. c. Elytra without discoidal and apical spots. 

 Var. d. Elytra with a discoidal spot only. 

 Length 4|-6 mm. 

 Hdb. India : Konbir ; Burma : Tharrawaddy. 



248. Aspidolopha thoracica, Jac.Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, xxxii, 1892, 

 p. 879. 



Dark blue beneath, above fulvous ; thorax with a narrow 

 transverse blue baud at base ; elytra with a dark blue humeral 

 spot, another near base and a third behind the middle ; tibiae 

 fulvous. 



Posteriorly narrow in shape ; head impunctate, a band of pale 

 fulvous pubescence in front of eyes ; clypeus finely punctured ; 

 labrum piceous ; antennas fuscous, scarcely extending to base of 

 thorax, basal four joints fulvous, fourth and following joints 

 serrate. Thorax narrowed in front, median lobe broadlv rounded, 



