144 CHBYSOMELIDJE. 



254. Aspidolopha melanophthalma, Lacord. Mon. Phytoph. ii, 1848, 



p. 254. 



Metallic blue ; antennae fuscous ; thorax, scutelhun and elytra 

 flavous. 



" J . Very short and thickened, head more or less finely rugose, 

 a band of pubescence in front of eyes 

 antennae extending to base of thorax, basal 

 joints testaceous. Thorax about one and 

 a tbii'd broader than long, cylindrical, 

 slightly narrowed in front, median lobe 

 very large but short and feebly rounded, 

 surface impunctate, very shining. Scu- 

 tellum large, triangular, carinate at apex. 

 Elytra rather convex, strongly lobed at 

 sides of epipleurse, less shining than 

 thorax, distinctly punctured. Legs rather 

 feeble. 



Fig. 47. " Var. Legs and abdomen more or less 



Aspidolopha, melano- testaceous." (Lacord air e.) 

 pUhalma. Length 2% mm. 



Hob. Bengal ; Tenasserim. 



All the Indian specimens I have seen have the thorax more or 

 less distinctly punctured at sides, not impunctate as Lacordaire 

 describes it. The elytral puncturation is very strong and close. 

 but nearly absent at apex, the tibiae and tarsi are mostly flavous. 



Genus EPIMELA. 

 Epiniela, Weise, Deut. ent. Zeit. 1903, p. 27. 



Type, E. ornata, Eedtenb., from Kashmir. 



Range. India ; Ceylon. 



Short, subcylindrical ; head and thorax pubescent'; antennae 

 slightly longer than the thorax ; eyes large and distinctly emargi- 

 nate. Thorax much broader than long, posterior angles rounded. 

 Scutellum large. Elytra with large humeral lobes ; pygidium not 

 covered by the elytra. Abdomen strongly inflated. Legs and 

 tarsi rather long. 



This genus has been lately established for a species from 

 Kashmir which was placed by Lacordaire in Grynandropliilialma ; 

 the pubescent head and thorax, strongly developed elytral lobes, 

 free pygidium etc. justify Weise's separation of the species from 

 the last named genus. 



255. Epimela ornata, Redtenb. (Coptocephala) HiigeFs Reise Easchmir, 

 1846, p. 560, pi. 28, fig. 5 ; Lacord, (Gynandrophthalma) Mon. 

 Phytoph. ii, 1848, p. 266 ; Weise, Deut. ent. Zeit. 1903, p. 27. 



Bluish-green ; apical joints of antennae, tibia? and tarsi black ; 



