niAPKOMORPHA. 165 



A single male specimen in Mr. Andrevves' collection is of entirely 

 dark fulvous colour above but varies in no other way from the 

 type, the last abdominal segment in that specimen is entire ; the 

 obscure colour of the elytra seems to point to discoloration. 



SECTION II. 

 Sftecies of smaller size (4-7 mm.). 



287. Diapromorpha quadripunctata, Jac.P.Z.S. 1887. p. 68; Weise, 



Deut. ent. Zeit. 1903, p. 24. 



Gynandrophthalma lacordairei, Jac. Ann. Soc. Ent. Selg. xxxix, 

 1895, p. 261. 



Fulvous ; terminal joints of antennae blackish ; elytra with four 

 black spots (2 . 2) or two transverse bands or with the posterior 

 portion entirely black. 



Head with shallow, transverse groove between the eyes ; vertex 

 convex, im punctate, intraocular space finely rugose, obsoletely 



depressed at the sides ; cly- 

 peus finely longitudinally 

 strigose, anterior edge sub- 

 triangularly emarginate ; eyes 

 large, oblique, slightly 

 notched ; antennae not ex- 

 tending to base of thorax, 

 black, basal four joints 

 fulvous, second and third 

 short, fourth and following 

 joints transverse. Thorax 

 about two and a half times 



rpha quadripunctata broa(ler than l onff si d e s 

 and var. ,. , , 



nearly straight, slightly nar- 

 rowed in front, angles distinct, anterior and posterior margins 

 straight, latter feebly lobed at base ; surface with a rather deep 

 transverse depression near posterior angles, microscopically 

 punctured. Scutellum broad, apex rather pointed. Elytra 

 distinctly lobed at sides, with very feeble transverse depression 

 before the middle, crowded with small punctures ; pygidium either 

 covered by elytra or partly free. Legs rather short, 'tarsi of nearly 

 equal length, short. 



Var. . Above entirely fulvous, beneath and the legs black or 

 fulvous : nalandensis, Weise. 



Var. b. Elytra with a narrow black margin from behind the 

 middle to apex, beneath fulvous. 



Var. c. Elytra each with only two black spots, either the 

 anterior or the posterior two. 



Var. d. Elytra each with three spots (1.2.4), spot 3 absent. 



Var. e. Head, thorax and underside black, elytra with four spots : 

 dambullensis, Weise. 



Var./. Fulvous, posterior portion of elytra more or less black. 



