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CHBYSOMELID.E. 



thorax, basal three joints fulvous. Thorax about two and a half 

 times broader than long, rather convex, sides straight, posterior 

 angles rounded; surface transversely depressed near anterior 

 margin with two small tubercles at the middle (more distinct m 

 the male), finely punctured at the sides, clothed with dense grey 



Fig. 48. Epimela indica, tf . 



pubescence in fresh specimens. Scutellum elongately subtri- 

 angular, pubescent. Elytra rather distinctly lobed at the sides 

 below the shoulders, strongly punctured in longitudinal rows, the 

 interstices finely transversely wrinkled, clothed with short silvery 

 pubescence. Pygidium finely rugose. Tarsi broad and robust. 



The following varieties have been enumerated by Duvivier : 



Var. a. Head and thorax more or less black or greenish-black. 



Var. b. Anterior margin of thorax fulvous. 



Var. c. The elytral bands reduced to one or two spots, var. 

 interrupta, Duviv. 



Var. d. Elytra entirely fulvous, var. uniformis, Duviv. 



length 6|-9 mm. 



Hob. India : Konbir-Nowatali, Tetara. 



This species on account of the pubescent upper surface, 

 produced lateral elytral epipleurse and free pygidium, must be 

 placed in Epimela. In Pantocometis the pubescence is long and 

 of a different kind. 



258. Epimela insnlaris, Weise, Deyt. ent. Zeit. 1903, p. 26. 



Blackish-blue, closely pubescent, the pubescence silvery; antennae 

 black, basal joints, tibiae and tarsi ferruginous ; elytra dark fulvous, 

 two spots before and a band behind the middle blue. 



Bather smaller than E. ornata, Bedtb., and clothed with silvery 

 not grey pubescence, the elytra darker red, much more strongly 

 and distinctly punctured. Head rugose, not strigose ; labrum 

 piceous, anterior edge reddish ; basal four joints of the antennae 

 reddish, first and fourth joints sometimes stained with piceous, the 



