XL. NOTES ON SOME CHRYSOMELID 

 BEETLES IN THE COLIvECTlON OF 

 THE INDIAN MUSEUM. 



By C. A. Paiva, Assistant, Indian Museum. 



The greater number of the specimens of this family in the 

 collection are still unnamed^ but those that have been identified 

 have^ with a few exceptions, been examined either by M. Bah^ 

 or by the late Mr. Jacob}''. The latter does not, however, appear 

 to have made use of his notes on the collection in compiling the 

 volume in the Fauna of British India, Burma and Ceylon, Coleop- 

 tera, ii, igo8, published shortly after his death, which has prob- 

 ably deprived coleopterists in India of a full account of the familj'. 



As many of the new specimens are ' ' types ' ' and as all refer- 

 ence to several fully described Indian species has been omitted 

 from the " Fauna," although they belong to the sections of the 

 family dealt with, I have been asked by the Superintendent to 

 prepare the following notes on some specimens in the ]\Iuseum 

 collection. 



I have mereh^ compiled the information to be obtained from 

 Jacoby's, Baly's and Clavareau's labels, adding certain quota- 

 tions and references to published literature. 



Lema mandarensis , Jac. 



Jacoby, Fauna of British India, Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, 

 vol. i, 1908, p. 6g. 



A " type " specimen of this species is in the collection of the 

 Indian Museum, and it is the only named representative of the 

 species in the collection. Jacoby when describing this species 

 mentioned in the Ann. Soc. Entom. Belgique, xli, 1897, P- 4^1^ that 

 several specimens of this small species were obtained at Mandar 

 in Bengal by Mr. P. Cardon. 



Crioceris quadripustulata , Fabr, 



Jacoby, Fauna of British India, Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, 

 vol. i, 1908, p. 78. 



This species is worthy of note as Jacoby records it only from 

 Tenasserim, Siam and Java, whereas there are specimens in the 

 Indian Museum collection determined by him from Sikhim, Calcutta, 

 and Sibsagar. Assam. 



