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CHRYSOMELINiE. 



Gymnosporia championis (Celastraceje), 20. iv. 1923, 21 speci- 

 mens {H. G. Champion). Originally described from " India 

 Ohientalis," and also subsequently recorded from Ceylon. 



Type of Coccinella virescens, Hope, and of Plagiodera cinctipennis, 

 Baly, in the British Museum. 



42. Plagiodera divisa, Jacohy. 



Melasoma divisa, Jac, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1887, p. 83. 



Body ovate, moderately convex. Colour brown, the five apical 

 segments of the antennae and the scutellum black, the suture and 

 a broad longitudinal band commencing from the base of the elytron 

 and bifurcating at about the middle, metallic green ; the outer 

 branch of the bifurcating band usually becomes very narrow and, 

 bending round inwardly, continues to meet at the sutural angle 

 the sutural stripe of a similar colour, the inner branch extends a 

 little beyond the middle ; the sutural stripe, the elytral band, its 

 breadth, its point of bifurcation, and the breadth and length of 

 the branches, all vary. 



Head broad, fitting well within the emargination of the pro- 

 notum ; upper surface depressed in the middle, finely punctate and 

 having a A-mark, which in some specimens is well defined and in 

 others feeble. Antennae short, hardly extending beyond the base 

 of the pronotum ; first segment comparatively stout and club- 

 shaped, second small, rounded, third slightly longer than second, 

 fourth, fifth and sixth gradually becoming stouter, the seventh to 

 eleventh much stouter, slightly expanded laterally and inwardly, 

 and pubescent. Proihorax almost twice as broad as long, narrow 

 in front, front edge emarginate, posterior margin correspondingly 

 but more widely arched, sides and anterior and posterior angles 

 rounded ; upper surface gently convex from side to side, very- 

 minutely and scatteredly punctate, the punctures can be seen 

 under a high power. Scutellum triangular, smooth, shining, 

 impunctate. Elytra broader than prothorax ; humerus raised 

 into a prominence ; along the lateral margin of each elytron is a 

 slightly convex border which has the same width at the base as at 

 the apex, is bounded by rows of punctures and also has one or two 

 longitudinal rows along its middle line ; the outer branch of the 

 greenish elytral band runs along the inner side of this border, but 

 stains only the apical part of its surface ; surface of each elytron 

 confusedly and thickly punctate, one or two longitudinal rows 

 may be recognized along the suture. Underside smooth, shining, 

 impunctate ; sometimes the legs are stained with piceous ; inner 

 edge of the elytral epipleuron darker ; tarsi not so strong as in 

 other species of the genus, the claw-segment projecting much 

 beyond the bilobed segment. 



Length, 4^-5 mm. 



Ceylon (type-locality). South India : Kanara (T. R. Bell). 

 Type in the British Museum. 



