452 Mr. J. S. Baly on the Phytophaga. 



plaga magna baseos fasciisque duabus latis, prima vix ante medium, 



secunda apicem versus positis, flavo-fidvis. 

 Hub. Labok. Collected by the late M. Mouhot. 

 Var. C. nigra, corpore supra rufo-fulvo. 

 Hub. India, Madras. 



This variety approaches very closely to P. lutea ; Olivier, in his 

 very short description of the latter species, does not mention the legs 

 as differing in colour from the rest of the body, although in the plate 

 they are figured entirely black ; he also gives India, instead of China, 

 as the locality of his insect. 



Podontia spectabilis. (Plate XXI. fig. 2.) 



P. oblougo-elongata aut oblonga, valde convexa, rufo-fulva, nitida ; an- 

 tennis extrorsum nigris, abdominis apice flavo ; thorace lateribus bisi- 

 nuatis, antice angustatis, dorso hie illic profunde sed sparse punctato, 

 basi utroque latere trifoveolato, medio ante apicem transversim im- 

 presso, interdum lougitudinaliter canaliculate ; elytris flavo marmo- 

 ratis, utroque ante apicem excavato, sat fortiter punctato-striato, 

 striis disco evidenter, iis ad marginem exteriorem profunde sulcatis, 

 interspatiis ad apicem costatis. — Long. 4 lin. 



Hab. Northern China. 



Oblong-elongate or oblong, convex, bright rufo-fulvous, nitidous. 

 Face transversely depressed between the eyes, impressed on either side 

 with a deep groove, which, commencing just above the insertion of the 

 antenna?, curves obliquely outwards and upwards to the upper edge of 

 the eye ; antenna? (their base excepted), apex of jaws, and a spot on the 

 labrum black ; eyes narrowly oblong, also black. Thorax impressed on 

 either side with three deep foveas, the hinder one smaller than the 

 rest, and attached to the basal margin, base with a short longitudinal 

 impression on either side and a small round fovea in the middle, the 

 latter sometimes obsolete, central portion of disk in front more or less 

 distinctly transversely depressed, sometimes also impressed with a 

 longitudinal groove ; surface sparingly impressed with deep punctures, 

 forming on the sides short irregular rows. Scutellum subtrigonate. 

 Elytra broader than the thorax, oblong, sides parallel, apex subacutely 

 rounded, surface covered with large, irregularly confluent yellow spots ; 

 each elytron impressed with eleven rows of deep punctures, the first 

 row short, stria? near the outer margin sulcate, their interspaces sulcate ; 

 towards the apex of the elytron, where the surface is broadly excavated, 

 all the interspaces are thickened, subcostate, and covered with indi- 

 stinct transverse wrinkles. 



Podontia ? basalis. 

 P. ovata, valde convexa, fulva, nitida, antennis nigris, tarsis fuscis ; tho- 

 race tevi, fere impunctato, utrinque prope marginem obsolete excavato : 



