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‘Lytta bieti n. sp. 
Color metallic, bluish purple, a yellow spot on the vertex, elytra 
with a yellow vitta extending obliquely from the basal margin over 
the humeral callus to the apex and ending nearer the suture than 
the margin; form medium, robust, depressed, slightly wider posterior- 
ly; head large, triangular, slightly rounded angles, a slight vertical 
median impressed line, an impression at base of antenna on each side, 
another impression at the anterior end of the light spot on vertex, 
coarsely and very sparsely punctured, becoming a little denser at frons; 
pubescence short, sparse and mixed dark and lighter at back and un- 
der head; labrum strongly obcordate, a median smooth space, finely 
and sparsely punctured, pubescence pale, sparse, labro-clypeal suture 
distinct; clypeus very short, transverse, narrowed in front, posterior 
border convex, a foveate impression on either side, finely and thickly 
punctured, pubescence sparse; maxillary palpi long and medium, art. 
2 medium, slightly obconical, art. 3 short, obconical, last article the 
longest of all, slightly ovoid; antennae art. 1 short, strongly swollen, 
art. 2 small, beadlike. 
Pronotum short, transverse, narrowed behind, strongly gibbous at 
sides, suddenly constricted into neck, a median longitudinal impressed 
line to near posterior margin ending in a large impression, reflexed 
posterior margin strong at middle weakening at sides, a large, round, 
shallow fovea on either side of disk, disk around these foveae smooth, 
impunctate, and in front of these it is sparsely and coarsely punctured, 
a little coarser than head, pubescence short, sparse, dark; scutellum 
large, rounded, a large deep fovea taking in nearly all of it; elytra 
less than three times as large as joint width, ora and nervures dis- 
tinct, evenly, mediumly, coarsely and rugosely punctured, light and 
dark areas punctured the same, pubescence sparse and very short, 
slightly dehiscent and separately rounded at apices; ventral surface 
of mesosternum finely, thickly and rugosely punctured, pubescence 
mediumly short, ventrals of abdomen finely, sparsely and transversely 
aciculately punctured, pubescence mediumly short, sparse and confined 
more to sternum; Jegs medium long and stout, femora and_ tibiz 
punctured about like ventrals but not aciculate, posterior tibial spurs, 
outer with slight tendency to being trumpet-shaped, inner sharp and 
curved; tarsi long and slender; claws short and stout. 
Length 13, width 3.5 mm. 
Type in B. Museum. Type locality, Thibet. 
Distribution. Thibet, Tatsienlou (Mgr. F. Biet.). British 
Museum (3 specimens). 
This can readily be told at a glance from thibetana by its 
more gibbous pronotum, color, by its much coarser elytral sculp- 
ture, and by the oblique direction of the elytral vitta, in thibe- 
