HALTICID^. 



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DESCRIPTION. 



Body oblong, a little inclining to ovate, glossy ; underneath black-bronzed, scarcely punctured ; 

 above bronzed with a copper tint, minutely punctured. First and second joints of the antenna? 

 rufous : scutellum impunctured : elytra punctured in rows, with tbe interstices indistinctly punctured : 

 tarsi piceous with the first joint rufous. 



Family HALTICIMl. Haltkidans.. 



CXVI. Genus HALTICA. Geoff. 



xxv. * Subgenus Orchestius. Kiib. 

 Antennae, simple. 

 Body oblong. 



Prothorax with no transverse impression. 

 Elytra punctured but not in rows. 

 Posterior tarsi short, inserted in the apex of the tibia. 



This subgenus corresponds with Stephens's family — b. 1, *ff, of which H. Nemorum is the type. 



(290) 1. * Haltica (Orchestris) vicina. Neighbouring H. Orchestris. 



H. O. I vicina J pallida, pectore, capite punctis tribus ; prothorace quatuor lineolaque, coleoptris vittis quinque, tarsisque, nigris. 

 Neighbouring H. Orchestris, pale, with the breast, three dots of the head, four and a streak of the prothorax, five stripes 

 common to both elytra, and tarsi black. 



Length of the body 3j lines. 



A single specimen taken. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Body underneath pale rufous with the disk of the postpectus black. Head punctured in the 

 vertex, dirty-white, with a pair of contiguous black dots between the eyes and a subtriangular one 

 on the nose ; antenna; black with the underside of the scape and the two next joints dusky-rufous : 

 prothorax very minutely and lightly punctured, white with two irregular black spots placed obliquely 

 on each side, and a black longitudinal streak between them : scutellum black : elytra very minutely 

 and thickly punctured, with a sutural stripe common to both, a discoidal one rather nearer the lateral 

 margin, and another just above it all black ; the intermediate stripe falls short of the apex of the 

 elytra: the upper side of the tibia; is dusky, and the tarsi are black. 



This species is nearly related to Galleruca caroliniana of Fabricius and to Haltica alternata 

 of Illiger, but the markings of the head and thorax are different. 



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