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DESCEIPTIONS OF SOME NEW SPECIES OF PHYTO- 

 PHAGOUS COLEOPTERA FROM THE EAST. 



By Maetin Jacoby, F.E.S. 



Chrysomela micans, n. sp. 



Brownish seneous, very shining, the thorax impunctate at the disc, 

 deeply punctured at the sides, the latter thickened ; elytra very convex, with 

 foiu' double rows of very deep punctures, the interstices impunctate. Length, 

 4 lines. 



Of ovate, strongly convex shape, metallic brownish aeneous, the head 

 entirely impunctate, with a central short longitudinal groove, antennae 

 extending slightly beyond the base of the elytra, the terminal joints 

 thickened, the lower seven joints piceous, shining, the others black, opaque; 

 thorax nearly three times broader than long, the sides rather strongly 

 rounded anteriorly, the angles not produced, the disc very shining and 

 impunctate, the sides thickened, with several rows of deep and irregularly- 

 placed j)unctures ; scutellum with a sHght depression ; elytra very convex at 

 the middle, with four rows of double semifoveolate punctures and a single 

 row near the suture ; the breast and abdomen impunctate, coloured like the 

 upper surface ; prosternum shghtly sulcate. 



Hah. China. (My collection.) 



C. micans seems allied to C.foveojpunctata, Fairm., but differs 

 in its general bronze coloration, in having no lateral thoracic 

 deeiD sulcus, but deep punctures in its place, and in the four very 

 deep rows of elytral punctures. 



Chrysomela indica, n. sp. 



Apterous, greenish or bluish seneous, the antennae and tarsi black, 

 thorax longitudinally sulcate at the sides, strongly and remotely punctured ; 

 elytra very convex at the middle, reddish fulvous, more or less seneous, very 

 finely punctui'ed, the interstices minutely aciculate. 



Var. Elytra reddish fulvous, the suture obscure geneous. Length, 

 4:\ — 5 lines. 



Of medially strongly convex shape, the head finely and sparingly punc- 

 tured, obscure greenish eeneous, opaque ; antennas filiform, nearly extending 

 to a third of the elj'tra, black, the third joint ^distinctly longer than the 

 fourth; thorax twice as broad as long, broader in the female, the sides 

 slightly rounded and widened towards the apex, the anterior angles rounded, 

 not produced, the disc irregularly, strongly, but remotely punctured, the 

 sides with a longitudinal sulcation, not strongly marked, but more closely 

 punctured than on the disc ; elytra strongly rounded towards the middle and 

 very convex, fulvous or seneous with a slight fulvous tint, scarcely shining, 

 very finely, closely and irregularly punctured, the interstices minutely 

 scratched or aciculate ; prosternum strongly longitudinally sulcate. 



Southern India. (My collection.) 



This species, by its strongly convex and posteriorly pointed 

 shape, resembles C. temijletoni, Baly, but the elytra are almost 

 entirely without gloss, opaque, and closely and very finely and 

 irregularly punctured ; in the obscure seneous specimen the 

 suture alone shows some metallic gloss ; in the variety, which 



SUPPLEMENT, ENTOM. — OCT., 1893. Q 



