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9. Chrysolina krislmu, Baly. 



Chrysomela krislmu, Baly, Ann. Map-. Nat. Hist. C3) x, 1862, p. 21. 

 Chrysomela semifulva, Jac, Entomologist, xxvi, Suppl. 1893, p. 10(5. 



Body narrowly ob'ong-ovate, pointed towards the apex of the 

 elytra; its shape is characteristic. Colour metallic dark bluish or 

 slightly purplish, or bright cupreous, elytra sometimes obscure 

 fulvous with a purplish gloss. 



Head broad, impunctate, greenish ; clypeus depressed and 

 separated from the rest of the surface by an angular impression, 

 the longitudinal median line feebly impressed. Antenna? 

 extending to the base of the elytra or just a little beyond, black, 



Fig. 9. — Chrysolina krishnu, Baly. 



the terminal segments gradually thickened, the four basal segments 

 more shining than the rest, which are opaque and pubescent • 

 first segment large and thickened, second small, nearly half the 

 length of the third, fourth and fifth eacli shorter than third. 

 Protlwrax more than twice as broad as long, lateral margin straight 

 towards the base, slightly rounded anteriorly; disc impunctate, 

 with a central feebly impressed longitudinal line, which may be 

 absent in some cases, from the base to the front margin ; the 

 sides thickened, bounded within by a longitudinal furrow extending 

 the whole length ; metallic greenish, the disc more obscure 

 purplish. Sr.utellum semi-ovate, smooth, impunctate, apex broadly 

 rounded. Elytra scarcely broader at the base than the prothorax, 

 dark fulvous with a slight purplish gloss ; each elytron with four 



