8 CALLISr.V . 



produced and subacutoly aniylod in front, impunctfitc ; month 

 l)itchy ; antenna; entirely black. Thorax transverse - quadrate ; 

 sides narrowly margined, nearly straight and parallel behind, 

 rounded in front ; above moderately convex, irregularly punctured ; 

 on eaeh side is a deep longitudinal fovea, extending nearly the 

 whole length of the thorax, more coarsely punctate than the rest 

 of the surface, subvariolose ; in the central line, immediately in 

 front of the basal margin, is a small deeply impressed transverse 

 fovea. ScuteUum shining, impunctate. Elytra rather broader 

 than the base of the thorax, narrowly margined, parallel ; apex 

 rounded ; above subconvex, regularly punctate-striate ; interstices 

 smooth, impunctate, that between the second and third strias from 

 the outer margin slightly raised and subcostate ; on each elytron is 

 a broad black vitta, extending from just below the base nearly the 

 whole length of the disc, its apex cur\ing slightly inwards. Body 

 beneath pale fulvous ; knees stained with fuscous ; tarsi pitchy. 



Hah. India. 



A single specimen in the collection of W. W. Saunders, Esq. 



8. Callispa octopunctata, n. sp. B.M. 



C oblonga, subdepressa, fulva ; antennis elytrorumque pimctis octo, 



nigris. 

 Long. 21 lin. 



C. oblong, fiilvous. Head smooth, somewhat convex above, slightly 

 produced and acutely angled in front ; antennae black. Thorax 

 transverse -quadrate ; sides nearly parallel, slightly naiTowed in 

 front, in(hstinctly margined, theii- outer edge armed mtli four or 

 five irregular teeth ; above deeply impressed with foirr large and 

 coai-sely pimctiu'cd longitudinal fovea3. ScuteUum smooth, im- 

 pimctate. Elytra rather broader than the base of the thorax ; 

 sides parallel, nan'owly margined ; apex obtusely rounded ; surface 

 slightly convex, deeply pimctate-striate, each elytron with four 

 nearly round black spots ; the first small, at the base near the 

 scutelliim ; the second larger than the rest, just before the middle ; 

 the other two parallel, halfway between the middle and the apex. 

 Beneath entirely fulvous. 



Ildh. Ceylon. 



Unique in the British Museum collection. . 



9. Callispa nigricornis, n. sp. B.M. 



C. angusto oblongo-ovata, explanata, modice convexa, dorso sub- 

 depressa, fulva, nitida ; ocuHs antennisque nigiis. 

 Long. 2^ lin. 



C narrowly oblong-ovate, moderately convex, subdepressed along the 

 suture, pale shining fulvous. Head smooth, slightly convex, im- 

 pressed in thc^ middle of the forehead with a shallow fovea ; front 



