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Thorax broader than long at the base ; sides straight and obliquely converging from base 

 to apex, the hinder angles very acute ; basal margin oblique on either side, the median lobe 

 obtusely rounded ; disc subcylindrical, impressed, but not closely, with very shallow punc. 

 tures. Elytra ovate, attenuated at the apex, regularly punctate-striate, the interspaces plane, 

 each impressed with an irregular row of minute punctures ; humeral callus thickened. 

 Sab. Jhelam Valley. 



9. PLAGIODERA VERSICOLOKA. 



Chrysomela versicolora, Laicharting, Verz. Tyrol. Ins. i, p. 148 (1781). 

 Chrysomtla armorariee. Fabr. 



ILab. Jhelam Valley. 



10. CHRYSOMELA ANGELICA. 



Chrysomela angelica, Reiche, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1858, p. 33, tab. i., fig. 8 ; Fairm., 1. c. 1865, p. 80. 



nab. Sind Valley ; also Syria. I do not detect the slightest difference between 

 specimens brought from Syria and those contained in the present collection. 



11. PHRA.TORA ABDOMINALIS. 



Baly, Cist. Ent. ii., 187582, p. 375. 



Elongata, parallela, nigro-aenea aut nigro-cyanea, nitida, pedibus abdomineque nigro- 

 piceis, hujus segmentis ultimis duobus piceo-fulvis ; thorace transverse, sat fortiter irre- 

 gulariter punctato, utrinque leviter rugoso ; elytris thorace latioribus, parallelis, sat fortiter 

 punctatis, punctis subseriatim dispositis, interspatiis planis, subremote, tenuiter punctatis, 

 infra callum humeralem transtersim rugulosis. 



Long. 2| 3 lin. 



Head short, transverse ; vertex impressed, but not very closely, with large deep punctures, 

 lower face more closely, but less coarsely, punctured than the vertex, sub-rugulose; in the 

 middle, between the encarpse, is a short longitudinal sulcation, which extends upwards from the 

 apex of the clypeus; the latter depressed, broader than long, its upper margin obtusely angulate, 

 its surface closely punctured, subrugose ; antennse scarcely more than half the length of the 

 body, filiform, slightly thickened towards the apex, the basal joint thickened, the second 

 slender, equal in length to the first and also to the fourth joints, but slightly shorter than the 

 third ; two lower joints fulvous, stained above with piceous, the third to the sixth obscure 

 piceous, the five others slightly thickened, black. Thorax nearly one half broader than long ; 

 sides nearly straight and parallel from the base to the middle, thence obliquely converging 

 to the apex, the hinder angles produced laterally into a large acute tooth, the anterior ones 

 subacute; apical margin concave; upper surface irregularly punctured, the interspaces 

 smooth and shining on the middle disc, finely rugulose on the sides. Elytra broader than 



