94 Mr. J. 8. Baly on six new species 



each impressed with ten rows of distinct punctures, the first abbrevi- 

 ated, the second running parallel to the suture, the others arranged in 

 pairs, the puncturing of the outer pair more distant than in the rest, 

 all the rows less distinct and nearly obsolete near the apex; outer 

 margin impressed with a single row of fine punctures; interspaces 

 smooth, indistinctly punctured. Body beneath finely punctured ; legs 

 slender, subelongate. 

 Ilab. Ceylon. 



The form of the elytra and the slender legs give this insect a 

 different appearance from the rest of the genus. 



2. Chrysomela Fortunei. 

 C. oblonga, valde convexa, nitidissima, iridescens ; subtus viridi seneoquc 

 variegata, capite pedibusque purpureis ; supra viridi-asnea ; capite tho- 

 raceque rufo-violaceo-maculatis, hoc transverso, a basi ad ante me- 

 dium ampliato, lateribus incrassatis, intra marginem profunde punc- 

 tatis, irregulariter bi-impressis, disco leevi, hie illic sparse punctato ; 

 elytris dorso obsolete gibbosis, infra humeros transversim impressis, 

 tenuiter punctato-striatis, pimctis in striis confuse biseriatim dispositis, 

 ad latera et apicem versus subdissipatis, interspatiis Iambus ; utrisque 

 plaga magna male definita baseos, vittisque postice rufo-violaceis, vitta 

 pone medium coerulea. — Long. 5$ lin. 



Oblong, very convex, almost gibbous just behind the middle, nitidous, 

 iridescent; body beneath bright metallic-green, more or less inter- 

 mingled with aureous ; head and legs deep metallic-blue ; above bril- 

 liant metallic-green, variegated with rufo-violaceous. Head sparingly 

 impressed with minute punctures ; epistome semilunate, bordered above 

 by a regularly curved line; antenme slender, deep metallic-blue. 

 Thorax before its middle twice broader than long ; sides gradually di- 

 lated from their base to before the middle, thence suddenly rounded 

 and narrowed to the apex ; upper surface sparingly impressed here and 

 there with deep distinct punctures, sides thickened, boimded internal] y 

 by a number of large, deep, confluent variolose punctures, placed longi- 

 tudinally in the middle of which are two large, deeply impressed, ill- 

 defined irregular fovese ; the basal margin and an irregularly curved 

 marking on either side the disk, united with its fellow at the base, rufo- 

 violaceous. Scutellum smooth, semirotundate-ovate. Elytra broader 

 than the thorax, indistinctly dilated behind their middle, very convex, 

 more particularly on the hinder half, their middle portion almost gib- 

 bous ; siuface very smooth and shining, each elytron below the shoulder 

 with a well-defined transverse impression, which extends from imme- 

 diately within the outer border nearly to the suture ; finely punctate- 

 striate, the punctures on the stria; irregularly arranged in a double 

 row, the striae themselves, about nine in number, becoming confused 

 and irregular on the side and towards the apex of the elytron ; inter- 

 spaces on the disk smooth and nearly impunctate, those on the sides 



