PAEALINA. 



47 . 



Key to the Species. 



Abdominal sternites, or at least the greater 



part of them, generally metallic green. . . P. indica, Hope, p. 47. 



Abdominal sternites, except the first, reddish- 

 brown P- fdllaciosa, Stal, p. 48. 



27. Paralina indica, Hope. 



Chrysomela indica. Hope, in Gray, Zool. Misc. 1831, p. 29. 

 Paralina indica, Baly, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. (n. s.) v, 1859, p. 155 ; 



Duvivier, Ana. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxxv, 1891, C. r. p. 43. 

 Chrysomela cashmirensis, Redtenbacher, in Hiigel, Kaschmir, iv, 



1848, p. 558. 

 Lina elata, Stal, Of v. Vet.-Ak. Forh. 1857, p. 60. 



Colour metallic green with the elytra dark red-browu ; the 

 green may be considerably mixed with, or entirely replaced by, 

 blue. 



Bead depressed in the middle, the arched impressed line 

 forming the upper boundary of the clypeus, and the median 

 longitudinal line on the forehead, not very deep ; surface punctate, 

 with a few bristles on the clypeus and near the eyes ; the latter not 

 so narrow as in Eumela. Antennae with first segment thickened, 

 second very small, third elongate, three times as long as second, 

 fourth shorter than third and equal in length to each of the 

 following segments, all the segments slightly covered with hair, 



Fig, 16. — Paralina indica, Hope. 



