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PLAGIODERA. 63 



Insinuate ; upper surface closely punctate. Scutellum triangular 

 with apex rounded and surface smooth and impunctate. Elytra 

 broader than prothorax ; the humerus strongly raised into a 

 convex knob ; each elytron has a raised, slightly convex border 

 along the outer margin, the border being as broad at the base as 

 at the apex, bounded on the inner side by a row of' punctures, and 

 having a longitudinal row along the middle of its surface; each 

 elvtron is covered with punctures which vary in size and depth, 

 they are thinner near the sutural surface than elsewhere, one or 

 two irregular rows along the suture can be distinguished, other- 

 wise they are confused. Underside smooth, shining and almost 

 impunctate. 



Length, 9-| mm. 



Tenasseium : Plapoo, iv. 1887. Burma: Karen Hills, Cheba, 

 xii. 1888 (L. Fea). 



Type in the Genoa Museum. 



The original description was drawn up by Jacoby from an 

 unique example (which, Dr. Gestro informs me, is in the Genoa 

 Museum), and the locality was stated to be Plapoo, Tenas- 

 serim, April 1887 ; Tenasserim is also the locality cited by Weise, 

 Col. Cat., part 68, p. 135. But on a specimen marked 'Hype" 

 and bearing a label of identification in Jacoby's handwriting, in 

 the British Museum collection, the locality given is "Carin Cheba, 

 xii. 1888 (L. Fea) " ; this specimen is not really the type, nor 

 even a cotype or paratype, as it was not used by Jacoby in making 

 his original description. 



39. Plagiodera miniaticollis, Hope. 



Ckrysomela mimaticollis, Hope, in Gray, Zool. Misc. ] 831, p. 30. 



Body oblong-ovate, convex, narrowed anteriorly. Elytra 

 greenish-bronze, the rest of the body dark, or sometimes paler, 

 brown. 



Head quadrate, upper surface slightly depressed in the middle, 

 covered with coarser and finer punctures and with a A in the 

 middle. Antennae robust, just passing beyond the base of the 

 pronotum ; first segment club-shaped, second shorter than 

 third and almost equal in length to fourth, these four segments 

 shining brown and smooth except for a few stiff hairs, fifth 

 stouter and more bristly, the last six segments form a thickened 

 club, more hair\ , and pieeons or black in colour. Prothorax almost 

 twice as broad as long, anterior margin narrower than base, widely 

 emaririnate to fit the width of the head, the edge of the emargi- 

 nation thinner in the middle and thickened at the sides ; anterior 

 angles rounded, posterior almost right angles, sides very gently 

 convex and slightly oblique, basal margin rounded in the middle 

 and from there almost straight to the posterior lateral angles; 

 surface gently convex, sloping from the base to the front, smooth, 

 and thickly covered with punctures. Scutellum triangular with 

 apex rounded and surface impunctate. Elytra broader than the 



