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CIJRTSOMELI WiE . 



rounded, basal margin gently sinuate, anterior angles acute mid 

 rounded, posterior angles almost right angles; central disc gently 

 convex from side to side and uniformly covered with tine punc- 

 tures, a longitudinal area on each side convex and impunctate, 

 bounded inwardly by a broad longitudinal depression containing 

 coarse and confluent punctures, ticutellum small, triangular, with 

 surface impunctate. Elytra as broad at base as the prothorax ; 

 each elytron bears the following rows of fine and feebly impressed 

 punctures : a short scutellar row, a sutural row extending right 

 to the apex, and four pairs of almost equidistant rows; the 

 punctures are closely and regularly placed, the interstices smooth 

 and very sparsely covered with very line punctures, which can be 

 seen under a high power. Underside smooth and impunctate. 



Length, 7 mm.; breadth, 4 mm. 



Bukma : Euhy Mines (Doherty). 



Type in the British Museum. Described from five examples. 



8. Chrysolina templetoni, Baly. 



Chrysomela templetow, Baly, Journ. of Ent. i, 1860, p. 93; id., t. c, 

 1861, p. 301. 



Chrysomela. jole, Stal, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Forh. xvii, 1860, p. 463. 

 Chrysomela gahani, Jac, Entomologist, xxxii, 1899, p. 81. 



Body convex. Colour obscure blackish-aeneous, shining, elytra 

 obscure rufous, antennae black. 



Head nearly impunctate. Antennae slender, more than half the 

 length of the body, slightly incrassate towards the apex ; the four 

 basal segments shining and hairless on the upper side, the rest 

 covered with silvery hairs ; first segment thickened, second small, 

 nearly half the length of the third, fourth and fifth segments each 

 shorter than the third, sixth elongate, the last pointed. Prothorax 

 twice broader than long, sides slightly dilated from the base to 

 before the middle, thence rounded and narrowed to the front end ; 

 upper surface smooth, shining and impunctate except for one or 

 two punctures impressed here and there; sides longitudinally 

 convex, bounded inwardly by a longitudinal depression. Scutellum 

 semi-ovate, smooth and impunctate. Elytra subglobose, smooth, 

 shining; each elytron impressed with ten rows of distinct 

 punctures including a short scutellar row, the next runs parallel 

 to the suture, the others arranged in pairs, the puncturing of the 

 outer pair more distant than in the rest; all the rows less distinct 

 and nearly obsolete, and with the punctures in each row irregular 

 and far apart, near the apex ; outer margin impressed with a single 

 row of fine punctures ; the whole surface is covered with round 

 black spots, except, to a certain extent, the impunctate interstices 

 between the double rows; these black spots have the appearance 

 of being underneath the shining surface. Underside finely 

 punctate; legs slender, rather elongate. 



Length, 7-8 mm. 



Ceylon. 



Type in the British Museum. 



