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Descriptions of the Phytophagous Coleoptera collected b// the 

 late Dr. F. Stoliczka during Forsytes Expedition to Kcc^hjar 

 in 1873-74 ; by Joseph S. Baly, F.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 distribution. 

 The 25 species contained in the collection belong to no less than 

 21 genera, out of which Nodostoma, Enneamera, Charcea, 

 Macrima, Mimastra, Merista and Leptarlhra (one-third of the 

 whole) are exclusively Asiatic ; Paria has its metropolis in 

 America, but is sparingly represented in Japan, China, and 

 Eastern Siberia ; Luperodes, is largely spread throughout 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 versicolora, Laich. {armoracicp, Auct.), is 

 found in Europe ; seven, Lema coromandeliana, Clytra palliata, 

 Enneamera variabilis, Galleruco indica, Gallerucella placida, 

 Merista interrupta, and Leptarthra collaris, occur in various 

 parts of British India ; two, Haltica ccerulescens and //. viridi- 

 cyanea, 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. 



List of Genera and Species. 



Leina coromandeliana, Fabr. var. 

 Clytra palliata, Fabr. 

 Coptocephala dubia, n. sp. 



,, dimidiatii^ennis, n. sp. 



Cryptocephalus interjectiis, n. sp. 



