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transversim sulcato, purpureo limbato, ante medium fascia lata trans- 

 versa rubro-ignea instructo ; scutello purpureo ; elytris sat fortiter striato- 

 punctatis, rubro-igneis, sutura margineque laterali anguste purpureis, 

 vitta subsuturali, limbo sublaterali, vitta obliqua bumerali maculaque 

 vix pone medium margini adlixa viridi-seneis. — Long. 4| lin. 

 Hah. Northern China. 



Antenna3 scarcely half the length of the body, moderately robust, 

 subfiliform, stouter, indistinctly thickened and subfusiform in the 

 male; second and third joints short, the third twice the length of the 

 second; first three joints glabrous, shining purple, the others closely 

 covered with short adpressed fuscous hairs ; face stained between the 

 eyes with a rufo-igneous patch ; forehead impressed with a deep fovea. 

 Thorax rather more than twice as broad as long, sides margined, 

 slightly rounded, obliquely narrowed in front, anterior angles thickened ; 

 upper surface remotely punctured, impressed on either side the disk by 

 a deep, slightly curved transverse fossa. Elytra scarcely broader than the 

 thorax, oblong, each elytron with about eleven rows of distinct deeply 

 impressed punctures, placed at irregular intervals on the rows, inter- 

 spaces finely punctured ; basilar space bounded beneath by a shallow 

 fovea. 



Genus Melospila. 



Antenna compressfle, subserrata?, articulis secundo et tertio brevibus. 

 Coxcb anticce subcontiguee, crassae, perpendiculares. Prosternum an- 

 gustatissimum, integrum. Palparum maxillarum articuli duo ultimi 

 conjunctim ovati. 



Characteres cseteri ut in Eustetha sunt. 



Type, Melospila nigromactdata, Baly. 



Very closely allied to Eustetha, but separated by the characters 

 given above. 



Melospila nigromaculata. 



M, oblonga, convexa, nigra, nitida ; antennis compressis, subserratis ; tho- 

 race hie illic fortiter punctato ; elytris fortiter striato-punctatis, flavis, 

 vitta suturali, linea marginali antice abbreviata et apice dilatata, fascia 

 lata vix ante medium, extrorsum abbreviata, niaculisque 10,harum tribus 

 baseos inter se confluentibus, quinque pone medium transversim positis, 

 duabusque apicalibus, nigris. — Long. 3^ lin. 



Hab. Northern China. 



Antennse more than two-thirds the length of the body ; second and 

 third joints short, nearly equal, the remainder compressed and dilated 

 on their inner edge from base to apex, the latter being slightly produced 

 and acute. Thorax convex, its sides margined, rounded and entire. 

 Punctures on the elytra deeply impressed, somewhat irregularly arranged 

 in eleven longitudinal rows, the first abbreviated. 



