CHRYSOLINA. 



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there are altogether about fifty spots in all the rows on each 

 elytron. Underside sparsely and finely punctate. 

 Length, 8|-9| mm. 



Bengal: Berhampore ( Atkinson) ; Murshidahad. North- West 

 Eronttp]r: N.W. Himalayas {G. Bryant); Peshawar, Taru, iv. 

 1916 (T. Bainhrigge Fletcher, Pusa Coll.) ; Khyber Pass, Alimasjid, 

 25. iv. 1916 (T. B. Fletcher, Pusa Coll.). United Provinces: 

 Dehra Dun, Doiwala, 7. viii. 1922 (N. C. Chatterjee) ; Kanikhet 

 Division, Kumaon, vi. 1920, 1 example (H. G. Champion). 

 Punjab: Gurdaspur, 15. x. 1918 (Pusa Coll.). Bihar: Push, 

 23. vi. 1905 (C. S. Misra); same locality, iii. 1921 (both Pusa 

 Coll.). Kajpetana : Kulu. This insect has a very wide distri- 

 bution, having been taken in Siberia, China and Japan. 



Type probably in Copenhagen. 



2. Chrysolina vishnu, Hope. 



Chrysomela vishnu, Hope, in Grav, Zool. Misc. 1831, p. 30; Baly, 



Trans. Eat. Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 189, pi. 2, f. 14. 

 Chrysomela cingidata, Baly, Journ. of Ent. i, 1860, p. 97 ; id., t. c, 



1861, p. 301. 



Diphyrrhynchus qeminatus, Allard, Bull. Soc. Ent. France, 1896, 

 p. 320 ; Lesne, 'op. cit., 1915, p. 189* 



Body elongate - ovate. Colour blackish - aeneous or obscure 

 cupreous, antennae blackish-blue; outer margin bordered witli 

 fulvous-reddish. 



Mead finely but distinctly punctate, the punctures scattered on 

 the forehead, rather more crowded on the lower portion of the 

 face. Antennae slender, shorter than halt the body, their apical 

 segment oblong-ovate with its apex subacuminate, the three basal 

 segments more or less fulvous beneath, the third hardly longer 

 than the fourth, the second about half the length of the third; 

 the five basal segments shining, the rest opaque and finely 

 pubescent. Proilxorax twice broader than long ; sides nearly 

 straight and parallel behind the middle, narrowed and rounded 

 in front, more suddenly narrowed at the apex; upper surface 

 with its lateral borders raised, convex and bounded internally by 

 a broad, shallow, lonuitudinal depression, more distinct at the 

 base, the surfaee of which is covered with large, deeply impressed, 

 irregularly confluent, variolose punctures ; disc, together with the 

 convex margin, rather remotely covered with distinct but fine 

 punctures. Scutellum smooth, shining, semi-ovate, with a few 

 punctures at the base. Elytra slightly broader than the pro- 

 thorax, five times its length ; sides subparallel ; each elytron with 

 eleven rows of distinct, deeply impressed punctures ; this includes 



* This species was described by Allarc] as a Tenebrionid, but in 101.") 

 Moris. Lesne pointed out that it is reallv a Chrysolina. I have recently sent 

 two authentic speimens of Ch. vishnu, Hope, to Mons. Lesne, who, on 

 comparing A.llard'd type with them, found it to be identical. 



