DIAPKOMORPHA. 169 



The small variety described by Lacordaire is the male, in which 

 the dense pubescence of the underside is of golden colour ; that 

 of the female is white or grey. 



292. Diapromorpha capitata, sp. n. 



Upper part of head and underside black ; lower portion of 

 face and thorax fulvous ; elytra and legs flavous. 



Elongate and subcylindrical. Head very finely pubescent near 

 inner margin of eyes ; the entire vertex crossed by a broad 

 transverse black band that extends in a narrow stripe in front 

 of the eyes ; fulvous portion of face impressed with three deep 

 foveae ; anterior margin of clypeus feebly emargiuate ; mandibles 

 black ; palpi flavous ; antennae extending to base of thorax, 

 fulvous, second joint short, moniliform, third and fourth more 

 elongate, the latter slightly widened, succeeding joints strongly 

 transversely serrate. Thorax two and a half times broader than 

 long, lateral margins moderately rounded, angles distinct, the 

 surface impunctate, sides with two very small foveae near the base, 

 median lobe straight. Scutellum broader than long, apex truncate. 

 Elytra distinctly lobed below the shoulders, subcylindrical, scarcely 

 narrowed posteriorly, puncturation close and rather fine, inter- 

 stices finely granulate. Body beneath deusely clothed with silvery 

 pubescence. Pygidium exposed. Tarsi broad and short. 



Length 7 mm. 



Hub. Bengal (Coll. Jacoby). 



I know no other species of the genus similarly coloured as 

 regards the black band on the head added to the smooth thorax 

 and finely punctured elytra, in which respects the species differs 

 from D. melanopiis, which it resembles somewhat in coloration. 



293. Diapromorpha turcica, Fab. (Olythra) Si/st. Ekut. ii, 1801, p. 37 ; 



Lacord. Mon. Phytoph. ii, 1848, p. 236. 



Var. Diapromorpha quadriraaculata, Jac. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. 

 xxxix, 1895, p. 257. 



Beneath black, above fulvous or flavous. Thorax with two 

 black spots (sometimes united). Elytra with a transverse band 

 behind the middle, a spot below the base, and another near the 

 apex black. 



Var. a. Tibiae and tarsi more 

 or less fulvous ; subapical spot 

 of elytra absent. 



Var. b. Thorax black, the 

 anterior and lateral margins 

 and a median line fulvous. 



Var. c. Thorax with two 

 small spots at the base and 

 two at the middle black. 



Var. d. Thorax with two or 



pig 65 four black spots or entirely 



Diapromorphn, turcica, var. f ulvous. 



