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"Head subdepressed. Thorax strongly and sparingly punctured, 

 convex, anteriorly triangularly narrowed, posteriorly less narrow, 

 sides dentate. Scutelluin triangular, testaceous or black. Elytra 

 strongly punctate-striate, subsutural stria very short, fifth entire, 

 rest obliterated at base, the latter gibbous. Posterior tibiae excavate 

 (euiarginate) near apex. Antennae extending to base of thorax, 

 basal joint large, ovate, second short, thickened, third very narrow, 

 scarcely as long as second, fourth and following as long as 

 third, terminal joints slightly thickened, more or less darkened." 

 (Motschulslcy.) 



Var. a. Thorax more or less aeneous. 



Var. b. Elytra with lateral and sutural margins black. 



Var. c. Above fulvous. 



Length 2 mm. 



Hab. Southern India : Nilgiris ; Burma ; Ceylon ; China ; 

 Japan. 



Baly has described his P. consimile as a Nodostoma, although he 

 points out the sulcus near the eyes which places the insect in 

 Pagria ; he further compares it with Nodostoma 4-signatum of 

 Motschulsky, but probably means " sic/natum" as Motschulsky has 

 not, to rny knowledge, described any species of Nodostoma under the 

 former name. Baly also separates his consimile from Motschulsky's 

 insect by the strongly punctured thorax, but Motschulsky described 

 his species likewise as " grosse punctata." All the Nilgiri spe- 

 cimens have pale testaceous elytra with the typical piceous spot 

 below the base. 



632. Pagria bipunctata, Lefev. Butt. Soc. Ent. Bely. xxxv, 1891, 

 p. cclxvi. 



" Beneath piceous, above fulvous ; sutural and lateral margins 

 of elytra and a small spot below base brown ish-piceous. 



" Head strongly punctured ; labrum, palpi and antennae fulvous, 

 terminal six joints of the antennae fuscous. Thorax much broader 

 than long, sides angulated at middle, very convex, somewhat 

 sparsely punctured on the middle of disc, sides strongly and sub- 

 confluently punctured. Scutellum smooth, subcordiform. Elytra 

 with rounded fovea below base, remotely punctured in rows, 

 punctures at base and sides large, nearly obsolete at apex, humeral 

 callus prolonged into a short oblique costa. Legs fulvous, tarsi 

 fuscous. 



" Length 4 mm. 



"Hab. Hindustan." (Lefevre.) 



033. Pagria ceylonensis, sp. n. 



Beneath black, above metallic green or aeneous ; basal joints of 

 antennae flavous. 



Head deeply and rather closely punctured ; eyes with narrow 



