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CHRYSOMELIDJE. 



817. Tricliona apicata, Jac. Ann. Soc. Ent. Bdg. xxxix, 1895, p. 285. 



Piceous; antennae and legs flavous ; elytra piceous, the apex 

 nearly impunctate, obscure flavous. 



Narrow and elongate in shape. Head densely and finely 

 rugose throughout ; the lateral margins of the clypeus raised ; 

 antennae flavous, the apical joints slightly stained with piceous, 

 second and following joints nearly equal ; mandibles robust. 

 Thorax with strongly rounded sides, the anterior margin slightly 

 produced at the middle, the sides extremely closely and strongly 

 punctured, the punctures partly confluent, the disc more remotely 

 punctate. !Scutellum slightly broader than long. Elytra with a 

 shallow depression below the base, deeply punctate- striate, the 

 punctures nearly obsolete at the apex, the apex flavous gradually 

 shading into the nearly black colour of the rest of the surface, 

 the interstices with some few and very minute punctures. Legs 

 entirely flavous, the anterior and posterior femora dilated each 

 into a strong tooth. 



Letvjth 3-4 mm. 



Hob. Southern Bombay : Belgaum. 



Can be distinguished by the rugose head, extremely closely 

 punctured thorax and flavous apex of the elytra. 



818. Tricliona bifasciata, Jac. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxxix, 1895, 



p. 284. 



Subquadrate-ovate ; beneath black, above and the legs fulvous ; 

 thorax with two small lateral and a large central black spot. 



Fig. 164. Tricliona bifasciata. 



Elytra with the sutural and lateral margins and a broad band 

 from the shoulder to behind the middle, black ; femora toothed. 



