984 MARTIN JACOBY 



Var. The antennae and the legs more or less flavous. 



Length 2 lines. 



Of rather elongate and convex shape, the head black at the 

 vertex, impunctate, the low^er portion flavous, the labrum black, 

 antennae short, black, the lower three joints flavous, the second 

 and third joints very short , the intermediate ones slightly 

 widened ; thorax scarcely twice as broad as long, the sides nearly 

 straight, narrowed in front, the surface scarcely perceptibly punc- 

 tured , elytra not more strongly punctured than the thorax , 

 reddish fulvous, with a narrow transverse yellowish-white band 

 below the middle bounded above and below by a narrow black 

 band, the basal margin also narrowly black ; elytral epipleurae 

 disappearing below the middle, legs nearly black, all the tibiae 

 mucronate, the first joint of the posterior tarsi longer than the 

 following joints together. 



Palon (Pegu). 



This species closely resembles in its elytral markings M. orien- 

 talis, Jac, but in that insect the head is entirely flavous , the 

 breast is black, the black bands which surround the flavous 

 band are curved and the shape of the insect is short and more 

 convex, 



159. JMonolepta leae, n. sp. 



Flavous, the base of the head, the breast, pygidium and the 

 tibiae and tarsi black ; the thorax impunctate, elytra very mi- 

 nutely punctured, the suturai and lateral margin black, the base 

 with a narrow rufous band margined with black. 



Length 2 V2 lines. 



Head with a few minute punctures at the vertex, the latter 

 black , the frontal tubercles and the clypeus flavous , antennae 

 two-third the length of the body, flavous, the second joint small, 

 the third one half longer , the other joints very slender and 

 elongate ; thorax nearly twice as broad as long , pale flavous , 

 the sides nearly straight, the posterior margin slightly rounded, 

 the surface without impression , impunctate , scutellum black ; 

 elytra very finely and closely punctured, pale flavous, the su- 



