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CHRYSOMELIj^iE. 



Pusa Coll.) ; Patkai Mts. (Doherty) ; Manipur (Doherty). Burma : 

 Karen Mts., 900-1100 m., v-xii.1888 (L. Feci). Ceylon: 

 Peradeniya, Matale, 1919 (JV. K. Jardine). 

 Type in the Hope Museum, Oxford. 



30. Eumela transversicollis, sp. nov. 



Head, prothorax, antennae, underside, and legs bright metallic 

 green ; elytra red-brown with purple or greenish shimmer. 



Head almost impunctate or with a few very fine punctures ; 

 viewed from the front almost vertical, with a depression in the 

 middle; clypeus bounded on the upper side by a strongly impressed 

 curved transverse line, the vertical line is not visible. The 

 structure and the proportions of the antenna! segments are as 

 described in the preceding species. Prothorax broader than long, 

 much more so than in E. cyanieollis ; surface convex, almost 

 impunctate except for a few fine punctures and some coarser ones 

 at the basal and lateral borders, anterior border widely emar- 

 ginate, sides undulated, anterior angles rounded, posterior obtuse. 

 Scutellum with base straight, posterior end rounded but more 

 nearly triangular than in E. cyanieollis, surface impunctate. 

 Elytra : the sculpture of the surface is exactly as in the type 

 species of the genus. Underside generally punctate, the abdominal 

 segments more closely so and without bristles. In E. cyanieollis 

 the antennal and abdominal segments bear bristles, in this species 

 they are without them. 



Length, 10-12 mm.; greatest breadth, 7-9 mm. 



Nilgiri Hills : (A. K. Weld-Downing) ; (H. L. Andrewes) ; 

 Naduvatum, 7000 ft., v. 1904 (W. Bawson, Pusa Coll.). 



Type in the British Museum. 



Described from two examples, one bearing Jacoby's manuscript 

 name, which I have adopted here, and the other labelled eoroman- 

 deliana, Dej. 



31. Eumela assamensis, Weise. 



Eumela assamensis, Weise, Deutsche Ent. Zeitschr. 1902, p. 110. 



Body metallic green with light goldeu shimmer. The transverse 

 impression bordering the clypeus and the median longitudinal 

 impression on the forehead prominently sharp. Pronotum mode- 

 rately strongly punctate with a groove on each side. Elytra dark 

 red-brown, the inner half impressed with strong and slightly 

 elongated wrinkle-like punctures, the outer and the apical areas 

 with much finer punctures. The first abdominal segment green 

 in the middle. 



Length, 13-14*5 mm. 



Assam. 



Type probably in the Berlin Entomological Museum. 

 I have not seen this insect but, judging from the description, 

 the sculpturing of the elytra is characteristic. 



