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9. Plagiodera versicolora. 



Chnisoiaela versiculora, Laicliarting, Verz. Tyrol, liis. i, p. 

 148 (1781). 



Ghrysonu'la arinoracice, Fabr. 

 Hab. Jhelaui Valley. 



10. Chrysomela angelica. 



ChnjxtDmla angelica., Reiche, Ann. Soc. Eut. France, 1858, 

 p. 33, tab. i, fig. 8 ; Famn., I.e. 1865, p. 80. 

 Hab. Sind Valley ; also Syria. 



I do not detect the slightest difference between specimens 

 brought from Syria and those contained in the present collection. 



11. Phratora ahdominalis, n. sp. 



Elongata, parallela, nigro-a^uea aut uigro-cyanea, nitida, pedi- 

 bus abdomineqne nigro-piceis, hujus segmentis ultimis duobus 

 piceo-fulvis; thorace transverso, sat fortiter irregulariter punctato, 

 utrinque leviter rugoso ; elytris thorace latioribus, parallelis, sat 

 fortiter punctatis, jjunctis • subseriatim dispositis, interspatiis 

 planis, subremote, tenuiter punctatis, infra callum humerale 

 transversim rugulosis. Long. 2|-3 lin. 



Hab. Murree. 



Head short, transverse ; vertex impressed, but not very closely, 

 with large deep punctures, lower face more closely but less 

 coarsely punctured than the vertex, subrugulose ; in the middle 

 between the encarpa3 is a short longitudinal sulcation, which 

 extends upwards from the apex of the clypeus ; the latter 

 depressed, broader than long, its upper margin obtusely augulate, 

 its surface closely punctured, subrugose ; antennaj 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 Avith 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 aciite tooth, the 

 anterior ones sub-acute ; apical margin concave ; upper surface 

 irregularly pimctured, the interspaces smooth and shining on the 

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



