384 CHRYSOMELID^E. 



Oblong, clothed with fine white pubescence. Head very deeply 

 punctured, strigose at sides of vertex, an oblong fovea in the 

 middle ; antennae slightly extending below the base, the basal two 

 joints a3neous, rest black and thickened. Thorax slightly broader 

 than long, feebly impressed on the disc and sides ; surface strongly 

 transversely strigose except near the anterior margin. Scutellum 



Fig. 134.Scelodonta indica. 



with a few punctures. Elytra with a depression below the 

 shoulders and at the sides on its anterior third, another short 

 depression below the first spot; disc scarcely convex, deeply 

 puuctate-striate and finely transversely wrinkled ; interstices 

 slightly convex anteriorly, costate posteriorly ; each elytron with 

 three bluish- black spots, one below base, one larger, subtriangular, 

 near the middle and placed nearer the suture, the third spot 

 narrow, between the suture and the posterior margin. Beneath 

 deeply and closely punctured. 



Length 4| mm. 



Hab. Bengal : Konbir. 



679. Scelodonta areolata, Lefbv. Bull. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxxv, 1891, 

 p. cclxvii. 



" JEneous, subcupreous, sparingly pubescent ; sides of meta- 

 thorax densely clothed with white pubescence. 



" Head remotely punctured, finely granulate if seen under a 

 strong lens, faintly impressed between the eyes. Antennae with 

 the basal six joints greenish-aeneous, the rest cyaneous. Thorax 

 anteriorly rather deeply and irregularly transversely strigose, in 

 the middle distinctly punctured, with shining subelevated spaces 

 here and there. Scutellum smooth. Elytra rather deeply trans- 

 versely depressed below the base, regularly punctured in rows, 

 punctures stronger at the sides and in the basal depression ; 

 numeral callus smooth." 



" Length 4^-5 ram. 



"Hab. Hindustan." (Lejcvre.} 



