MAULIK—COLEOPTERA, CHRYSOMELIDA): HISPINA OF THE SEYCHELLES 239 
with the base straight and the apex rounded. Hlytra parallel-sided, slightly narrowed 
behind, truncate at apex, projecting a little beyond the abdomen ; with eight straight 
and regular series of punctures and an abbreviated scutellar series; interstices smooth 
and flat, not raised at all into ribs or ridges. Prosternwm with a raised edge in 
front which meets the anterior angles of the pronotum, truncate at the base, which 
is closely applied to the nearly straight front edge of the mesosternum ; metasternum 
with an impressed median longitudinal line. Front coxew prominent, hind coxze not 
prominent. Two first ventral abdominal segments not soldered together. Legs short, 
femora incrassate; in the tarsus the claw-joint projects beyond the third joint, the 
claws not being partially hidden in the pubescence of the under side. 
This genus resembles Brontispa Sharp in shape and general appearance, but differs 
from it in having the head longer than broad, and the eyes not prominent, the antennze 
scarcely reaching the base of the thorax, the Ist antennal joint relatively shorter, the 
apical joint sharply acuminate, and the prothorax narrowed in front. From Xiphispa 
Chap. it also differs in the length and structure of the antennz, the relative length 
of the 1st and three following joints, in the form of the prothorax (which is conical in 
Xiphispa), and in having the claw-joint of the tarsus projecting beyond the 3rd joint. 
1. Nesohispa lambaguras*, n. sp. (Figs. 1 and 2). 
Upper side black ; under side, legs, first six joints and a little of the basal portion 
of the 7th jomt of the antennze dark reddish-brown: near the truncate apex of the 
elytra the colour is a little diluted with dark red-brown. Surface of head strongly 
punctate ; behind there is an almost impunctate portion in the occipital region, which 
under a high power is seen to have transverse striations. The sinuate sides of the 
prothorax have three indentations: its surface is convex and strongly punctate, except 
in the posterior central portion, which is almost impunctate, but is seen under a high 
power to have very fine punctures. Base of elytra bi-sinuate with the anterior angles 
rounded. 
Length: the type measures 81 mm.; a larger specimen is 94 mm. without the 
head, which it has unfortunately lost. 
Described from three examples. Type in the British Museum. 
Loc. Seychelles. Mahé: from damp forest on summit of Morne Pilot, over 
2000 feet, X. or XI. 1908 (same loc. and one of same dates as Rhabdotohispa scotti, 
q.v.), 1 specimen (the type); Cascade Estate, 800—1500 feet, 1909, 1 specimen ; 
found dead between leaf-bases of growing Stevensonia palm, summit of Mt. Sebert, 
nearly 2000 feet, 28. XIT. 1908, 1 specimen. 
RHABDOTOHISPA, n. g. (Figs. 3—5). 
Body nearly parallel-sided, slightly broader behind. Head strongly transverse, 
very slightly produced into a blunt prominence between the antenne. Hyes strongly 
convex. Antenne (Fig. 4) short, 6-jointed ; joint 1 short, slightly incrassate, obliquely 
* The specific name is derived from Sanskrit lamba =long, ciras = head, the word meaning “long-headed.” 
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