420 



CHKYSOMELIDJ.. 



Head closely rugose-punctate, entirely clothed with yellowish 

 scales; clypeus strongly transverse, closely punctured; labrum 

 and palpi pale fulvous ; antenna? about two-thirds the length of 

 the body, third and fourth joints very elongate and equal, terminal 



C'lts rather shorter. Thorax about half as broad again as 

 g (?), sides rounded and widened at the middle, anterior 

 portion slightly narrowed, lateral margins absent, surface sculp- 

 tured and furnished with scales like the head, two obscure darkish 

 bands at the middle. Scutellum clothed with whitish hairs. 

 Elytra much wider at base than the thorax, extremely closely 

 punctate-striate, punctures rather deep ; the interstices forming 

 very narrow, slightly convex lines, covered with scales and fur- 

 nished with short erect darker hairs. Anterior and posterior 

 femora strongly toothed. 



Length 4|-5 mm. 



Hob. Bengal : Mandar. 



In the original description the thorax is given as half as long 

 again as broad, but the reverse is the case in the specimen I 

 received from Duvivier and named by him. 



740. Hyperaxis semifasciata, Jac. (Demotina) P. Z. S. 1887, p. 70, 

 pi. x, fig. 1. 



Obscure fulvous or piceous ; antennae and legs dark fulvous : 

 scutellum white ; elytra with obscure darkish band and four or 

 five white spots behind the middle, a small white spot at base. 



Head with yellowish pubescence on the 

 vertex, hiding any sculpture ; clypeus closely 

 punctured, glabrous, fulvous ; eyes entire ; 

 antennae filiform, third and fourth joints 

 slender, nearly equal, terminal joints 

 slightly thickened. Thorax scarcely twice 

 as broad as long, lateral margins indicated 

 at base only, sides rounded, very slightly 

 narrosved in front, anterior angles denti- 

 form; surface convex, closely covered with 



f r ellowish slightly curved scales or scale- 

 ike hairs, flanks beneath densely covered 

 with white pubescence ; a very slender, 

 medial, longitudinal white stripe on the 

 disc. Elytra strongly and for the most part 

 irregularly punctured, pubescent like the 

 thorax ; a small white pubescent spot at the 

 middle of the basal margin, three spots 

 transversely across the middle and two 

 behind the middle, one near margin, the 

 All femora strongly dentate ; intermediate 



Fig. 148. 

 Hyperaxis scmifasriata. 



other near suture. 

 tibise emarginate at base. 



Length 4-6 mm. 



Hab. Ceylon. 



