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prothorax, smooth and shining; humerus raised into a convex 

 knob ; each elytron is closely covered with punctures of varying 

 sizes and depths, these punctures having a tendency to form 

 irregular longitudinal lines. Underside smooth, shining, uniformly 

 brown and impunctate. 

 Length, 7 mm. 



Sikkim : Gopaldhara, Rungbong Valley {H. Stevens). Origin- 

 ally described from Nepal. 

 Type in the British Museum. 



40. Plagiodera micantipennis, Stal. 



Plagiodera micantipennis, Stal,Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Forh. xv, 1858, p. 251. 



Body strongly convex. General colour of the elytra greenish - 

 bronze with purple reflections which are generally visible as longi- 

 tudinal bands alternating with green according to the angle of 

 incidence ; a lateral band along the elytral margin, the underside 

 and the rest of the body, reddish-brown. 



Head : upper surface punctate, slightly depressed in the middle, 

 with A-mark, of winch the vertical longitudinal line is not strongly 

 impressed. Antenna? short, stout, hardly passing beyond base of 

 pronotum ; first segment club-shaped, second shorter than third, 

 fourth, fifth and sixth almost equal to each other in length ; all 

 of these segments are shining brown and smooth ; the seventh and 

 eleventh form a thickened, pubescent, blackish club. Prothorax 

 almost twice as broad as long ; front margin emarginate to fit the 

 width of the head, and narrower than the basal margin which is 

 widely arched, sides rounded and oblique, anterior and posterior 

 angles rounded ; surface closely punctate. Scutellum triangular 

 with surface smooth, impunctate, brown, in some cases the three 

 sides are edged with a black border. Elytra broader than pro- 

 thorax, convex : humerus raised into a convex knob ; the marginal 

 brown band is raised, very slightly convex, broader at the base and 

 narrower towards the apex, bounded on the inner side by a row 

 of punctures, its surface nearly impunctate ; disc of elytra closely 

 covered with punctures which have a tendency to arrange them- 

 selves in rows. Underside uniformly brown, lighter than the 

 browns of the upper side, shining, smooth, impunctate. 



Length, 6|mm. 



Ceylon. 



Type in the Stockholm Museum. Specimens determined by 

 Baly in the British Museum. 



41. Plagiodera rufescens, Gyllenhal. 



Chrysomela rufescens, GylL, in Schonh., Syn. Ins. i, 2, 1808, p. 267, 

 nota/; Weise, Arch. Naturg. lxvi, 1898, p. 212. 



Coccinella virescens, Hope, in Gray, Zool. Misc. 1831, p. 31 ; Weise, 

 Arch. Natuvg. lxiv, 1898, p. 212. 



Plagiodera cinctipennis, Baly, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) x, 1862, 

 p. 26. 



