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CHRYSOMELINiE. 



thickened and pubescent ; first segment thickened, second, fourth, 

 fifth and sixth each shorter than the third. Prothorax transverse, 

 much broader than long, sides straight towards the base, rounded 

 anteriorly, anterior angles blunt and rounded, posterior right 

 angles, anterior margin deeply concave, basal margin straight from 

 the middle to the side ; disc with a few fine scattered punctures, 

 the sides very deeply and partly confluently punctate, the punc- 

 tures extending close to the margins, which latter are not longi- 

 tudinally convex. Scutellum im punctate, smooth, ovate. Elytra 

 evenly convex, obscurely fulvous with a strong metallic brassy 

 lustre; each elytron with a short scutellar series of punctures, 

 then a single row of fine punctures placed close to the suture, 

 then follow four irregular double rows of punctures, a few of 

 the latter increasing in size at the sides, the space between the 

 last row of punctures and the margin impunctate and smooth, the 

 other interstices also impunctate. Underside-, elytral epipleurie 

 broad and smooth ; abdomen pale fulvous with a greenish metallic 

 gloss, and sparsely and finely punctate. 



Length, 8 mm. ; breadth, 5| mm. 



Bombay : Poona. 



Type in the British Museum. 



13. Chrysolina madrasae, Jacob//. 



Chrysomela madrasce, Jac, Mem. Soc. Ent. Belg. vii, 1900, p. 118. 



"Winged ; very convex. JEneous, with antennas black. 



Head broad, with a few extremely fine punctures ; clypeus 

 separated by a well-impressed semicircular line, the longitu- 

 dinal median line feebly impressed ; labrum piceous, margined 

 with fiavous. Antennas passing a little beyond the pronotum ; 

 first segment flattened, broad, third segment the longest, the 

 following three segments equal, as long as the second, the 

 seventh, eighth and ninth segments thickened, the terminal two 

 more elongate. Prothorax nearly twice as broad as long, 

 lateral margins straight towards the base, rounded anteriorly, 

 front margin widely emarginate, basal margin straight from the 

 middle to the side, anterior angles rounded, basal almost right 

 angles ; disc sparingly but rather strongly punctate, the sides 

 covered with deeply impressed, large, confluent punctures. 

 Scutellum smooth, impunctate. Elytra very convex, broader at 

 the base than the prothorax, very smooth, shining;, on each 

 elytron the punctures are rather irregularly approximated in four 

 double rows, those near the suture very indistinctly so, while 

 these latter are much smaller and much more feebly impressed than 

 those on the outer area ; a short scutellar row of fine punctures 

 can also be recognized ; interstices impunctate. Underside : 

 surface impunctate and smooth ; legs rather slender. 



Length, 8-9 mm.; breadth, 5-7 mm. 



Southekn India. Madras (Brit. Mus.). Chik - Ballapur, 

 Mvsore, 2 examples (T. V. Campbell, in Coll. Champion). 



