EUMELA. — SPH^ROLINA. 



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32. Eumela balyi, Jacoby. 



Chrysornela balyi, Jac, Entomologist, xxvi, 1893, Suppl. p. 106. 



Ovate, strongly convex, greenish aeneous, the apical segments of 

 the antennae black ; elytra reddish-fulvous with a purplish sheen. 



Head with a very few fine punctures near the eyes, labrum and 

 mandibles black, median vertical line absent. Antennae very 

 short, not extending beyond the base of the thorax, basal segment 

 metallic green, the five apical segments strongly dilated, broader 

 than long, and black. Prothorax nearly twice as broad as long, 

 sides and anterior margin at the middle straight, anterior angles 

 rounded and but slightly produced ; surface brilliant metallic 

 greenish, with a few deep punctures and a short transverse fovea 

 at each side, sides without any longitudinal depression ; the degree 

 of punctuation of the surface varies. Scutellum metallic green, 

 triangular with apex broadly rounded, surface smooth. Elytra 

 reddish-brown, gradually raised towards the middle, from there 

 to the apex rather strongly deflexed, with a short transverse 

 depression below the shoulders, which are convex and impunctate ; 

 surface strongly punctured, the punctures deeply impressed 

 (giving a rough appearance), arranged in irregular longitudinal 

 rows near the suture and at the sides, more irregularly on the 

 disc, and more finely at the apex than anteriorly ; the interstices 

 smooth, two of them elevated, this being more marked in some 

 specimens than in others. Underside and legs metallic green ; 

 prosternum longitudinally convex, metasternum very slightly 

 tuberculate in front, abdominal segments finely punctured. 



I have before me eleven specimens, all from South India; 

 they vary in size, in the punctuation of the pronotum and in the 

 degree of elevation of the interstices ; in the type-specimen this 

 latter is not very pronounced. 



Length, 11-12 mm. 



South India : Shembaganur, Palni Hills, 6000 ft. (Pusa 

 Coll.); Kodaikanal, 1 specimen (I 7 . V. Campbell, Coll. Champion) ; 

 Kodaikanal, 6700-7000 ft., v. to ix. 1922 {Mrs. Kemp). Originally 

 described from Madras. 



Type in British Museum. 



I do not think that this species should be included in 

 Chrysornela (= Chrysolina), as was done by Jacoby. 



Genus SPKEROLINA, Baly. 



Sphcerolina, Baly, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1871, p. 400 ; Chapuis, Gen. 

 Col. x, 1874, pp. 368, 378. 



Genotype : Lina rajah, Guerin. * 



Body rounded-ovate, semi-globular, more convex than either 

 Paralina or Eumela. Head as broad as the emargination of the 

 front border of the pronotum ; eyes narrow and obliquely placed, 

 but not so narrow as in Eumela. Antennae short, hardly reaching 

 the base of the pronotum, five apical segments much more dilated 



