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loque basi piceis; thorace transverso, iateribus ante basin dente subacuto armatis, ante dentem 

 concavis, ante medium ampliatis, disco rude rugoao, bifoveolato ; elytris profunde confuse punc- 

 tatis, interspatiis granulosis. 



Long. 2 lin. 



Vertex and front finely rugose-punctate, clothed with appressed griseous hairs, the mid- 

 dle with a large ill-defined piceous patch ; encarpse thickened, contiguous, pyriform ; antennse 

 moderately rohust, filiform, the second joint nearly equal in length to the first, about two- 

 thirds the length of the third. Thorax more than half as hroad again as long ; sides diverging 

 at the base, and armed at the apex of the diverging portion with a subacute, setiferous tooth, 

 immediately in front of which, before the middle, they are deeply sinuate, in front they are 

 broadly dilated, the anterior angle armed with a subacute tooth ; disc coarsely rugose-punctate, 

 broadly excavated on either side, and again more deeply, but to a less extent, on the anterior 

 half of the middle disc ; the piceous patches, placed transversely on the disc, are large but ill- 

 defined, and cover nearly the whole of the surface. Scutellum narrowed from its base towards 

 the apex, the latter obtusely truncate. Elytra oblong, nearly parallel, deeply and coarsely 

 punctured, densely clothed with short suberect griseous hairs. 



Hab. Jhelam Valley, one specimen; I also possess this insect from India. 



24 MERISTA INTERRUPTS. 



Galleruca intemipta, L. Redtb. in Hugel's Kaschmir, iv, p. 553, tab. xxvii, fig. 4 (1844). 



Sab. Murree, a single specimen. 



The transverse black patch differs greatly in extent in different individuals, in some 

 being entirely obsolete ; in the specimen before me it is reduced to two small fuscous points 

 placed transversely on the middle disc. 



In this species, of which I possess many specimens from various parts of India, the 

 second and third joints of the antenna vary in relative length in the sexes : in the 3 these 

 joints are very short and nearly equal; in the 9 the third joint, though short, is distinctly 

 longer than the second. 



25. LEPTARTHA COLLARIS. 



Baly, Cist. Ent. ii, 187582, p. 382. 



Ovata, postice atnpliata, nigra, nitida ; thorace transverso, fulvo ; elytra fortiter sat 

 <jrebre punctatis, castaneis, punctis piceis, utrisque macula basali juxta suturam nigro-aened 

 notafis. 



Long. 44 5 lin. 



Vertex shining, impunctate ; encarpse thickened, contiguous, semilunate ; antennse 

 nearly equal to the body in length, filiform, tapering towards the apex, second and third 

 joints very short, equal. Thorax transverse, sides constricted behind the middle, dilated in 

 front, the anterior angles produced, their apices obtuse; apical border concave-emarginate ; 

 disc smooth, impunctate, thickened on either side near the anterior angle, impressed on each 



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