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22. GaUeruca indka, n. sp. 



Ovata, postice paulo ampliata, modice convexa, nigra, subtus 

 nitida, griseo sericea, siapra opaca ; capite tlioraceque rude 

 rugoso-punctatis, hoc transverse, utrinque foveolato, medio longi- 

 tudinaliter sulcato, lateribus reflexis, ante medium obsolete 

 angulatis ; elytris vage rufo-2Diceo limbatis, rugoso-punctatis, 

 utrisque vittis elevatis quatuor, duabus intermediis interruptis, 

 inter dum fere totidem obdoletis, instructis. Long. 5 lin. 



Hab. Murree ; also Northern India, my collection. 



Head very coarsely rugose-punctate. Thorax nearly twice as 

 broad as long ; sides parallel, shghtly sinuate, obtusely angled 

 just before the middle, thence obliquely converging to the apex, 

 the anterior angle moderately produced, its apex rounded ; disc 

 very coarsely rugose-punctate, the middle portion with a longi- 

 tudinal sulcation which extends from base to apex, either side 

 impressed with a large fovea. Scutellum coarsely rugose- 

 punctate. Elytra broader than the thorax, ovate, slightly dilated 

 towards the apex, moderately convex, rugose-punctate, but less 

 coarsely so than the head and thorax ; black, sometimes tinged 

 with piceous, the outer margin obscure rufo-piceous ; each 

 elytron with four raised vitta?, the two intci'mediate ones inter- 

 rupted and sometimes almost entirely obsolete ; the suture also 

 thickened. 



23. GaleruceUa* placida, n, sp. 



Anguste oblonga, griseo hirsuta, subtus picea, nitida, protho- 

 race fulvo ; supra sordide fulva, subnitida, antennis, verticis 

 plaga, thoracis maculis tribus transversim positis scutelloque basi 

 piceis ; thorace transverse, lateribus ante basin dente subacute 

 armatis, ante dentem coucavis, ante medium amphatis, disco rude 

 rugoso, bifoveolato ; elytris profunde confuse puuctatis, iuter- 

 spatiis granulosis. Long. 2 hn. 



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

 from India. 



Vertex and front finely rugose-punctate, clothed with adpres- 

 sed griseous hairs, the middle with a large ill defined piceous 

 patch : encarpEB thickened, contiguous, pyriform ; autennte 

 moderately robust, fihform, the second joint nearly equal in 

 len2;th to the first, about two-thirds the lensth of the third. 



GaleruceUa. Crotcli, Proc. Aca<^l. Philad. 1873, p. 55. 



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