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segments become slightly stouter and much more hairy. Prothorax 

 broader than long, sides almost straight, anterior angles rounded, 

 posterior almost right angles, front margin widely emarginate; 

 upper surface moderately convex, each side having a longitudinal 

 depression, the middle and the basal areas bearing a few scattered 

 punctures, while the lateral depressions are heavily punctate. 

 Scutellum sharing the same colour as the pronotum, ovate, with 

 surface impunctate. Elytra broader at base than prothorax, 

 widening slightly posteriorly; surface shining, convex; each 

 elytron has the following arrangement of punctures: (1) a loiig 

 scutellar row which at the commencement forms a pair with 

 the sutural row, (2) the single sutural row which runs throughout 

 the length of the elytron, approaching the sutural ridge very 

 closely on the apical area, (3) four pairs of longitudinal discal 

 rows at equal intervals from each other, the pairs approximating 

 towards each other on the apical surface, and finally (4) a single 

 row of punctures along the extreme outer margin ; on the surface 

 betweeu the pairs of rows of punctures there are confused, round, 

 black spots simulating punctures, in some specimens less con- 

 spicuous. Underside sparsely and finely punctate, each puncture 

 bearing a brownish hair. 



This species differs from P. indica in the shape of the anterior 

 end of the metasternum, which in P. fallaciosa is blunt, shorter, 

 and channelled on each side. 



Length, 11 mm.; greatest breadth, 6 mm. (type-specimen); a 

 specimen in the British Museum measures 13 mm. by 8 mm. 



Type in the Stockholm Museum. 



N. India (locality of the type-specimen). Sikkim : Gopaldhara, 

 Rungbong Valley (H. Stevens). Daejeeling : Pashok, 3500 ft. 

 (L. C. Hartless,* Ind. Mus. Coll.); Lebong, 8000 ft., vi. 1909 

 (Lefroy, Pusa Coll.). Assam: Garo Hills, above Tura, 3500- 

 3900 ft., 15. vii-30. viii. 1917 (8. Kemp); Khasi Hills, Nongpoh, 

 vii. 1907 (B. Noivrojee, Pusa Coll.). 



There is a specimen in the British Museum bearing a label of 

 identification in Baly's handwriting. Stal in describing this 

 species consulted Baly, whose suggestion that it possessed a 

 metasternum of a different structure led Stal to publish the 

 species. Therefore the specimen in the British Museum, examined 

 by Baly, although not the type, has almost the value of a type. 



Genus EUMELA, Baly. 



JEumela, Baly, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1875, p. 23 ; Weise, Deutsche 

 Ent. Zeitschr. 1902, p. 109. 



Genotype, Chrysomela cyanicollis, Hope (India). 



Body oblong-ovate, convex. Head sloping in front ; antennae 

 hardly reaching the base of the pronotum, fairly stout, the 

 contrast in thickness between the six basal segments and the rest 

 of the segments is not so marked as in Sphcerolina, third segment 



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