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in front; posterior angles produced into a small acute tooth; upper 

 surface moderately convex, minutely punctured, base impressed by a 

 broad ill-defined transverse groove, disk impressed on either side by a 

 large shallow fovea: scutellum triangular, its apex obtuse: elytra 

 broader than the thorax, oblong-ovate, their outer edge furnished with 

 a distinct, slightly reflexed border; surface subnitidous, covered with 

 minute punctures, their interspaces very finely rugose, giving the whole 

 surface a granular appearance; on the disk of each elytron are three or 

 four indistinct longitudinal costaj : abdomen black, covered with coarse 

 adpressed pale-fulvous hairs. 



Genus Doryxkxa. 

 (Plate XL fig. 10, under surface of D. grossa, Hope.) 



Corpus oblongum, convexum. Caput valde deflexum, facie fere perpendi- 

 culare ; antennis robustis, filiforjnibus, artieulo primo curvato, basi 

 gracili, hinc ad apicem incrassato, secundo brevi, tertio illo duplo 

 longiore, quarto tertio paullo longiore; mandibidis validis ; labru trans- 

 verso; palpis maxillaribus artieulo ultimo obovato, apice conieo; mento 

 transverso-quadrato ; lif/ukt subquadrata, basi angustata ; oculis promi- 

 uulis, integris. Thorax transversus, dorso utrinque impressus, lateribus 

 angulatis. Elytra thorace latiora, apicem versus paullo ampliata, apice 

 rotundata, marginata. Pedes robusti, coxis anticis fere contiguis, tar- 

 sorum artieulo basali duobus sequentibus longitudine fere rcquali, 

 unguiculis subtus prope medium dente valido armatis. Prosternum 

 breve, int< r coxas anticas ad medium extensum. Metasternum inter 

 coxas intermedias in processum validum protensum. 



Type, Galleruca grossa, Hope. 



The produced metasternum separates this genus from Galleruca 

 and its allies. 



Genus LErTAimiRA. 



Corpus oblongo-ovatum, postice ampliatum. Caput thoraci ad oeulorum 

 marginem posteriorem insertum ; antennis gracilibus, coiporis longi- 

 tudine fere aequalibus, filiformibus, srepe ad apicem angustatis, artieulo 

 primo curvato, a basi ad apicem incrassato, secundo brevi, tertio illo 

 plus duplo longiore, quarto duobus pra?cedeiitibus a3quali ; labro trans- 

 verso ; mandibulis apice dentatis ; palpis maxillaribus artieulo primo 

 parvo, secundo paullo elongato, subclavato, tertio paullo incrassato, 

 subpyriformi, ultimo conieo, obtuso; mento transverso; ocidia promi- 

 nulis, ovatis. 'Thorax transversus, a basi ad apicem angustatus, apice 

 concavo, angulis anticis antrorsum productis. Scutettum B&trigoa&taxn, 

 apice rotundatum. E/;/fra oblonga, apicem versus perparum ampliata, 

 apice conjunctim late rotundata, valde convexa. Pedes graeiles, elon- 

 gati; procoxis subcontiguis, prosterno angustatissimo divisis, mesocoxis 

 magis Beparatis, unguiculis unidentatis. 



Type$ Leptarthra abdoihinalia. Baly. 



