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CHRYSOJMELINyE. 



the short scutellar row, next to which is a row running parallel 

 to the suture; the outermost row is finer and placed on the 

 extreme edge of the rufous border, and between these extremes 

 the eight other rows form four double series placed at nearly 

 equal distances on the disc; the interspaces vaguely and distantly 

 reticulate-strigose, minutely and somewhat remotely punctate. 

 Underside shining, distantly punctate ; legs covered rather sparsely 

 with deep punctures. 

 Length, 7-9 mm. 



Nepal (type-localitv). Darjeeling District : Lebong, 

 5000 ft., ix. 1908 {H. " M. Lefroy, Pusa Coll.) ; Kurseong, 5. x. 

 1908 {Lefroy), and 5000 ft., 7-20. vi. 1922 {Fletcher, both Pusa 

 Coll.). Sikkim : Mungphu {Atkinson). United Provinces : 

 Almora, Haldwani District, Kumaon, xi. 1917, viii. 1919, vii. 

 1920 {H. G. Champion), 8 examples; Mussoorie, 7500 ft., viii. 

 1906 {Lefroy) ; Jolikoti, 10. v. 1915 (Pusa Coll.). 



Type in the Hope Collection. 



Nearly allied to Chrysolina maryinata (Europe), but easily 

 separated from that species by its larger size, finer punctuation, 

 and above all by the different form and greater length of the 

 terminal segment of its antennae, which organs themselves are 

 also more slender than in Ch. maryinata. In the present species 

 the last segment is more slender and nearly twice the length of 

 the penultimate, whilst in the other species it is broader, shorter 

 in relation to the penultimate, and more regularly ovate, with its 

 upper edge towards the apex oblique. 



3. Chrysolina indica, Jacohy. 



Chrysomela indica, Jac, Entomologist, xxvi, Suppl. 1893, p. 105. 



Apterous. Body very strongly convex in the middle. Colour 

 opaque greenish- or bluish-aeneous ; antenna) and tarsi black; 

 elytra reddish-fulvous, more or less aeneous, with sometimes the 

 suture obscure aeneous. 



Head opaque, finely and sparingly punctate on the upper area, 

 the lower part including the clypeus more strongly punctate. 

 The antennae nearly extending to a third of the elytra, the third 

 segment distinctly longer than the fourth and twice as long as 

 the second, the apical segments more thickened than the basal 

 ones. Prothora.v twice as broad as long, broader in the female, 

 the sides slightly rounded and widened towards the apex, the 

 anterior angles rounded, not produced, the disc irregularly, strongly 

 but remotely punctate, the sides with a longitudinal convex border 

 hounded inwardly by a furrow, not strongly marked, but more 

 closely punctate than on the disc, where the punctuation is 

 scattered and consists of a mixture of finer and coarser punctures 

 of varying degree. Scutellum almost as broad as long, with the 

 base straight and apex widely rounded, smooth and impunctate. 



