COLEOPTERA. 25 



PHYTOPHAGA. 



BY JOSEPH S. BALY, E.L.S. 



The Phytophagous Coleoptera collected by Dr. Stoliczka, although few in number, and 

 containing no striking novelties, are extremely interesting in relation to geographical distribu- 

 tion. The 25 species contained in the collection belong to no less than 21 genera, out of 

 which Nodostoma, Enneamera, Charoea, Macrima, Mimastra, Merista t and Leptorthra (one- 

 third of the whole) are exclusively Asiatic ; Paria has its metropolis in America, but is spar- 

 ingly represented in Japan, China, and Eastern Siberia ; Luperodes is largely spread through- 

 out the Asiatic continent, and is also found (according to v. Harold, whose accuracy cannot 

 be doubted) in South America and Abyssinia ; of the twelve others, five are cosmopolitan, 

 and the rest occur abundantly in Europe. Out of the 25 species, one only, Plagiodera versico- 

 lora, Laich. (armoracice, Auct.), is found in Europe ; seven, Lema coromandeliana, Clytra 

 palliata, Enneamera variabilis, Galleruca indica, Gallerucella placida, Merista interrupta, 

 and Leptarthra collaris, occur in various parts of British India ; two, Haltica ccerulescens and 

 H. viridicyanea, have been described by myself from Japan ; and one Chrysomela angelica, 

 Reiche, is not uncommon in Syria ; the fourteen others have not as yet been found in any 

 other locality, and seventeen species are described for the first time in the present paper. 



1. LEMA. COROMANDELIANA, Eabr., var. PROTISTA. 



Crioceris prausta, Fabr., Ent. Syst. i, 2, p. 8 ; Lema prceusta, Lac., Mon. Phyt. i, p. 340. 



Sab. Jhelam Valley. A single specimen. 



2. CLYTRA PALLIATA. 



Clythra palliata, Fabr., Syst. El. ii, p. 30. 



Rob. Jhelam Valley ; also various parts of India. 



3. COPTOCEPHALA DUBIA. 



Baly, Cyst. Ent. ii. 187582, p. 370. 



Subelongata, subcylindrica, nitida, subtus nigra, argenteo sericea, prothorace pedibusque 

 fulvis; supra fulva, capitis vertice nigro ; thorace Icevi ; scutello piceo ; elytris tenuiter punc- 

 tatis, fascia communi baseos, extrorsum abbreviatd, alterdque vix pone medium nigris. 



Long. 2| lin. 



Vertex black, impunctate, lower face fulvous, a ray of the same colour extending upwards 

 on the vertex ; front deeply excavated between the eyes, irregularly punctured ; anterior 



