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without punctures. ScuteUum smooth, quadrate-ovate, iinpunctate. 

 Elytra subovate, convex, covered with deep punctures ; although 

 there is no regular arrangement a tendency towards formation of 

 longitudinal series may be recognized ; interspaces between the 

 punctures smooth. Underside shining, finely but remotely 

 punctate. 



Length, 8 mm. 



Northern India (type-locality of aurata : separata was 

 originally described from " India " and grutii from Rangoon). 

 Sikkim: G-opaldhara (H. Stevens). Assam (W. F. Badgley); 

 Manipur (Doherty) ; JNongpoh, Khasi Hills, vii. 1907 (D. Now- 

 rojee, Pusa Coll.), and Shillong, ix-x. 1918 (Fletcher, Pusa Coll.). 

 Bengal : Easulpur, hi. 1906 (Pusa Coll.) ; Pusa, Bihar, 3. v. 1906 

 (0. 8. Misra, Pusa Coll.). United Provinces : Dehra Dun, 

 22. vii. 1921 (S. N. Chatterjee). Burma: Carin Hills, xii. 1888 

 (L. Fea). 



Types of separata and. grutii in the British Museum. 



I have very carefully examined Baly's types of separata and 

 grutii, and I think the two species are identical ; I also believe 

 that they are the same as Suffrian's aurata. I have before me 

 more than sixty specimens from various localities. There is a 

 considerable difference amongst individuals in(L) size, (2) punctu- 

 ation, and (3) coloration, but I am of opinion that the divergences 

 tail within the limits of individual variation. 



Fig;. 13. — Chrysolina aurata, Suffr. 



