166 CHRYSOHELIDjE. 



Length 5-6 mm. 



Hob. Kanara ; Nilgiris ; Travancore ; Ceylon. 



The type of this species, a single specimen, was originally 

 described from Ceylon. On account of the partly covered pygidium, 

 the varieties from different parts of India were redescribed by me 

 as Gynandrophihalma, in which genus I now consider the insect 

 cannot be placed as it has pronounced epipleural elytral lobes. 

 In the Belgian 'Annals' I have pointed out at length the 

 differences between this and allied forms. Of these, D. dejeani, 

 Lacord., is perhaps more nearly allied to the typical form than 

 the others, but may be at once distinguished from it by the strong 

 elytral puncturation, banded thorax and differently coloured legs. 

 D. quadripunctata is a smaller species with the sides of the thorax 

 scarcely rounded, the latter are also less strongly transverse. 



288. Diapromorpha dejeani, Lacord. Mon. Phytoph. ii, 1848, p. 235 ; 

 Baly, Trans. Ent. Soc. (8) iv, 1865, p. 49. 



Black ; above fuscous ; thorax with two angulate spots ( <$ ) or 

 with a transverse sinuate black band near base ( $ ) ; elytra with a 

 short transverse black band at shoulders and another longer one 

 near apex. 



<$ . Short, oblong and subcylindrical. Head shining, black, 

 closely pubescent between the eyes, this portion depressed ; vertex 

 and clypeus convex ; antennae nearly ex- 

 tending to base of thorax, basal four joints 

 flavous, rest nearly black, fifth and following 

 joints strongly transversely widened. Thorax 

 about half as broad as long, widened at 

 middle, sides feebly rounded ; surface im- 

 punctate, with a subquadrate and angulate 

 spot each side near base, its inner edge 

 deeply concave. Scutellum small and narrow. 

 Elytra very strongly and closely punctured, 

 f tne P unctures pl ace( i i n ver .v irregular rows, 



Diapromorpha 'dejeani verv & ne at a P ex 5 ^ rst Dan d short, widest 

 at shoulders, second larger, deeply constricted 

 at middle and irregular in outline, neither band extending to the 

 lateral or sutural margins. Underside densely pubescent. 



$ . Thorax strongly transverse, twice as broad as long, with a 

 strongly transverse black band, deeply sinuate on the anterior 

 margin at each end, widened in the middle ; elytral puncturation 

 rather less strong and regular than in male. 

 Length 5-6| mm. 



Hob. Nepal ; Sikhim ; Coromandel ; recorded also from the 

 Malay Islands. 



Lacordaire evidently did not know the male of this species, which 

 varies in the shape and markings of the thorax as pointed out above ; 

 the puucturation of the elytra in both sexes is strong. 



