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with some feeble depressions here and there. Scutellum large, 

 triangular, obtuse at apex. Elytra strongly lobed at the sides, 

 strongly punctured, the punctures almost regularly placed at base 

 and apex. The markings bright blue, the band as well as the 

 spots obliquely placed. Legs blue, tibiae and tarsi fuscous. Male 

 unknown." (Lacordaire.) 



Length 5 mm. 



Hab. India. 



Lacordaire speaks of a finely pubescent head and thorax; no such 

 species of the genus is known to me and it is somewhat doubtful 

 whether the insect is a true Aspidoloplia. 



250. Aspidolopha interrupto-fasciata, Jac. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. 

 xxxix, 1895, p. 261. 



Fulvous ; head and scutellum dark blue ; elytra with a humeral 

 spot, another behind the middle on the suture, lateral and sutural 

 margins dark blue. 



Head finely and closely punctured and strigose, clothed with 

 very short pubescence ; clypeus more 

 strongly punctured ; anterior margin nearly 

 straight ; labrum fulvous ; antennae not quite 

 extending to the base of the thorax, basal 

 four joints fulvous, rest fuscous. Thorax 

 nearly three times as broad as long, sides 

 as well as posterior angles rounded, median 

 lobe very broad, truncate, slightly produced ; 

 surface very closely and strongly, somewhat 

 confluently punctured on the sides, middle 

 remotely punctured or with a smooth central 

 space. Scutellum broad, pointed, base finely 

 interrupt- pubescent. Elytra closely and strongly 

 fasciata. punctured anteriorly, the punctures some- 



what regularly arranged in rows on the 



posterior portion ; posterior half of suture more or less connected 

 with a spot behind the middle, corresponding portion of lateral 

 margins and a humeral spot dark blue ; epipleurse produced at the 

 sides. Beneath finely pubescent, breast darker. 

 Length 3 mm. 

 Hab. S. Bombay : Kanara. 



Of short and robust shape, but of small size. Differing from 

 its allies in the elytral markings ; these in one specimen have a 

 semicrescent blue sutural band joined to the posterior spot, neither 

 of the lateral bands extend quite to apex of elytra. 



251. Aspidolopha ceylonica, Weise, Deut. ent. Zeit. 1903, p. 25. 



Eufo-testaceous ; breast, a spot at sides of first abdominal seg- 

 ment, last segment, posterior femora and pygidium aeneous or 



