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also a small incision at the middle of its margin ; in many speci- 

 mens the sides of the head are stained with piceous ; but the 

 general colour of the insect is uniformly darker or paler fulvous, 

 and shining. 



Lieoetes ^eneipennis, Weise. (PL II., fig. 3.) 

 A dozen specimens. 



MONOLEPTA LEECHI, n.sp. 



Black; the head, the basal three joints of the antennae, the thorax, and 

 the anterior legs, fulvous ; thorax finely punctured ; elytra closely punctured, 

 black, a transverse narrow band at the middle, yellowish white. Length, 

 1J line. 



Var. The abdomen (the last segment excepted) flavous. 



Head impunctate, the frontal elevations broad, trigonate, the clypeus 

 broadly triangular, smooth, labrum and palpi piceous ; antennae extending 

 to rather more than half the length of the body, black, the basal three joints 

 fulvous, shining, the second and third joints short, subequal; thorax twice 

 as broad as long, the sides very slightly rounded towards the base, the basal 

 margin regularly rounded, the anterior one straight, the angles not produced ; 

 scutellum black, impunctate ; elytra very closely and finely punctured, their 

 epipleurae disappearing below the middle ; the under side and legs black, the 

 anterior legs fulvous ; tibiae with a long spine, the first joint of the posterior 

 tarsi half the length of the tibiae ; anterior coxal cavities closed. 



Closely allied to M. albofasciata, Jac. From Burmah, but 

 differing in the colour of the antennse, that of the legs, and the 

 want of the red colour at the apex of the elytra. In the variety 

 the abdomen is partly flavous. 



A few examples. 



Sepharia, Fairmaire. 



The author, who established this genus on two species from 

 China ('Annates de France,' 1889), has said nothing about the 

 length of the posterior tarsi, which is as necessary to mention as 

 any other structural character, considering the enormous mass of 

 described genera of Gralerucidse. I have lately received, from the 

 museum of Calcutta, an insect which answers completely Fair- 

 maire's description of his Tepharia rubricata from Moupin, with 

 the exception of the size and colour. The Indian specimen 

 labelled " Kullu," instead of being 8 mill, is only 6 mill, in 

 length, and the colour of the upper surface is not fulvous 

 (" rougeatre clair "), but very pale testaceous ; all the structural 

 characters, spots on the elytra and under side agree, however, 

 exactly with the description ; to which I may add, that the first 

 joint of the posterior tarsi is much longer than the following 

 joints together. In the Indian specimen there is also a small 

 piceous spot at the under surface of the head and the under 

 side of the thorax at each side, and the abdominal segments are 

 testaceous, with a black triangular spot at each side (Fairmaire 

 describes them as black, broadly margined with flavous). 



Allophyla, Weise. 

 This genus is, without doubt, identical with Charidea, Baly 



