140 [June, 



moderately eloiijrate, tlie tibiae curved, widened, and strongly compressed, the 

 outer carina c on^picuout:, the upper spur nearly as long as the first tarsal joint. 

 Length 4, breadth L>f mm. ( $ :-) 



Hah. Batchiax {A. JR. Wallace, in Mua. Oxon.). 



One specimen, in very good condition. This insect bears an ex- 

 tremely close resemblance to the Tropical American O. marmorata 

 Champ. (1897), and it is onl}' separable therefrom by the less developed 

 head and prothorax, the smaller eyes, the shorter and more slender 

 antennae, the more acuminate elytra, and the shorter postei'ior legs. 

 The confused mottling on tlie elytra does not tend to form definite 

 s})ots as in O. marmorata. The asymmetrically formed apices of the 

 elytra are probably natural, and the structure may be indicative of the 

 female ? O. antiqiia, like Frionoscirtes reliq^ims from Penang, each of 

 which is reproduced as it were in Tropical America, is perhaps a survival 

 of a primitive Dascillid ? 



16. — Ora picta. 



Galleruca picta Fabr. Sj'st. Ent. i, 2, p. 26. 



Scirtes j^icfas Guer. Sp. et Icon, i, 3, p. 4 ; Bourg. Bull. Soc. Ent. 

 Fr. 1896, p. 120. 



Ora 2^icl^(f Champ. Biol. Centr.-Am., Coleopt. iii, 1, p. 603, nota 

 (1897) ; Pic, in Junk's Col. Cat. o8, p. 40 (1914). 



Hah. India, Tranquebar [type], Belgaum, Chapra in Bengal, 

 Bassein Fort, Bombay (M. E. Andreives), Podanur {Doivning^ ; 

 Ceylox, Dondra {C. B. Fletcher: 4.xii. 1907). 



Mr. Andi-ewes has been kind enough to lend me his specimens of 

 this species, from Belgaum, Bombay, etc., recorded by Bourgeois in 

 1896, and there are others from " S. India," etc., in the British Museum, 

 including one with the black spots on the el3'tra reduced to four in 

 number, thus approaching the var. ohliterata Bourg., in which they are 

 wanting altogether. The posterior coxae are without angular j^late at 

 the base. The head is excavate on each side between the eyes, as in 

 various other species of Ora. The elytra are without foveae in 2 . 



17. — Ora atrosignata, n. sp. 



Elliptic, broad, shining, thickly, rather coarsely pubescent; testaceous, 

 the elytra with various angulate, more or less confluent markings (not reaching 

 the base, and mainly condensed into two irregular fasciae, which are connected 

 near the suture, one submedian, the other subapical), the eyes, and the abdo- 

 men and posterior femora in part, black or piceous ; densely, minutely, the 



