432 CIIKYSOMELID.E. 



joints each about equal in length to the first, each slightly 

 decreasing in length, slightly thickened at their apices, following 

 four moderately thickened, nearly equal, submoniliform, eleventh 

 rather longer ; eyes entire. Thorax transverse, subcylindrical in 

 front, gibbous, strongly tuberculate on disc, lateral margins 

 distinct, strongly produced, their outer edges sometimes minutely 

 toothed. Elytra much broader than the thorax : surface rugose- 

 punctate, covered with adpressed curved scales, intermixed with 

 tufts of suberect similar scales. Legs robust ; femora beneath with 

 a short stout tooth ; tibia; curved ; claws bifid. Prosternum 

 transverse, quadrate, separated from episternum by a deep groove. 

 Mesosternum short, transverse, apex concave. 



Can be distinguished by the produced lateral border of the 

 thorax. In the typical species, A. mouhoti, Baly, the thorax 

 is dilated at the sides ; in the other known species the lateral 

 margins are finely serrate. 



758. Alllacolepis mouhoti, Baly, Journ. Ent. ii, 1863, p. 163. 



Black, subnitidous, closely covered with large, curved, concave, 

 fulvo-fuscous scales. Head short, sub- 

 globose; antennae fusco-fulvous, scarcely 

 longer than the thorax. Thorax one- 

 third as broad again as long, the 

 posterior four-fifths of the lateral 

 border strongly produced, the anterior 

 fifth ill-defined, the outer edge armed 

 with minute teeth ; surface of disc 

 deeply punctured, elevated into two 

 large parallel conical tubercles, two 

 small patches of scales on the anterior 

 border together with a somewhat longer 

 patch immediately behind each of the 

 conical protuberances on the disc, 

 black. Elytra deeply punctured, clothed 

 152. with fulvo-fuscous intermixed with 



Aulacolepis mouhoti. similar black and white scales ; each 



elytron is also furnished with about 

 seven tufts of rigid, erect, black scales. 



Length 6 mm. 



Hub. Burma : Momeit ; Siam. 



Group EUBRACHINI. 



Characters of Pseudocolaspini, but with the anterior margin of 

 thoracic episternum concave. It is on this character that Baly 

 has separated the Eubrachini from the Pseudocolaspini. The group 

 contains two genera which can be tabulated as follows : 



