Mr. J. S. Baly on the Phytophaga. 457 



distinctly punctured ; the chief difference, however, with the excep- 

 tion of that of colour, is in the shape of the thorax, the angles of 

 which are distinctly more prominent than in N. variabilis, the pos- 

 terior being almost subacute. 



Genus Psylliodes, Latr. 



Psylliodes Brettinghami. 



P. obovata, supra coerulea, nitida; antennis nigris, basi fulvis; subtus 

 obscure picea, purpureo micans, pedibus pallide fulvo-piceis ; vertice 

 fere impunctato, facie inferiore rufo-picea ; thorace punctato, a basi ad 

 apicem angustato, lateribus rectis, apice oblique truncatis ; scutello 

 subtrigonato, acuto, nitido-piceo ; elytris fortiter punctato-striatis, striis 

 ad latus subsulcatis. — Long. If lin. 



Hab. India. Collected by Mr. Brettingham. 



Stout, obovate, shining blue above, body beneath obscure rufo-piceous 

 with a purple reflexion ; legs pale piceous, tbe apex of the four anterior 

 tibia?, together with the tarsi of the same legs, nigro-fuscous. Head 

 triangular, vertex shining, nearly impunctate, lower portion of face 

 rufo-piceous, sparingly clothed with pale-fulvous hairs ; antenna? black, 

 the basal three joints pale fulvous. Thorax nearly a third broader at 

 the base than long, narrowed from base to apex ; sides straight, ob- 

 liquely truncate at their apex ; disk smooth, deeply but not very closely 

 punctured. Scutellum shining piceous. Elytra much broader than 

 the thorax, ovate, narrowed from a short distance below the shoulders 

 to the apex, the latter subacutely rounded, each elytron impressed with 

 close regular rows of deep punctures, the first row abbreviated before 

 it reaches the middle ; stripe on the outer half of the disk (and all 

 towards their apex) indistinctly sulcate, their interstices obsoletely 

 convex, those on the inner disk in front flat, all of them finely but 

 remotely punctured. 



Genus Acroceypta. (Details, Plate XXI. fig. 5.) 



Corpus breviter ovatuni, valde convexum; antennis crassis, longitudine 

 corporis brevioribus, articulis lm° incrassato, 2do brevi obconico, 3tio 

 illo fere duplo longiore, 4*o et 5*° sequalibus, singulatim 3*™ paullo lon- 

 gioribus perparum incrassatis, &<> ad llmum incrassatis, clavum elongatum 

 compressum formantibus ; palporum maxillarium articido penultimo 

 valde inflato, subgloboso, apice truncato; articulo ultimo brevissimo, 

 penultimi apici immerso ; oculis prominulis, integris, ovatis ; epistoma 

 margine antico integi'O. Thorax transversus, lateribus anguste mar- 

 ginatis, angido antico tuberculato. Scutellum trigonatum. Elytra 

 irregulariter punctata. Pedes simplices ; femoribus posticis valde incras- 

 satis, subtus canaliculatis ; tibiis ejusdem paris dorso non canaliculars, 

 apice in spinam validam compressam producto ; tar sis posticis ad apicem 



