CHRYSOMELA. 



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with punctures; a slightly convex, narrow and smooth border, 

 distinctly delimited from the coarsely punctate surface, runs the 

 whole length of the elytron, this border being as broad at its 

 base as at the apex. Underside shining, abdominal segments 

 finely punctate. 

 Length, 8-11 mm. 



Himalayas : Kashmir, 5200 feet., iv-vi. 1923 (F. J. Mitchell) ; 

 Dungagali, ITazara district, 8000 ft,, 21-24. v. 1915 (Fletcher, 

 Pusa Coll.) ; Simla Hills, Matiana, 8000 ft. (N.Annandale) ; Phagu, 

 9000 ft., 8-21. v. 1916 (Annandale and Kemp); Darjeeling 

 (G. Rogers); Eanikhet, W. Alraora, 7000-9000 ft., vi.1917, and 

 Sukhatal, 8000 ft,, both in Kumaon (//. G. Champion). Assam: 

 (W. F. Badgley) • Shillong (F. W. Champion); same locality, 

 10. vi. 1918 (Pnsa Coll.). Originally described from Europe, 

 "also known from North Africa, North and West Asia, China 

 and Japan. 



Etienne Eabaud (Feuille jeun. Natur. xxxix, 1909, p. 101) 

 reports that this beetle is attacked by a dipterous parasite, 

 Meigenia bisignata (Meigen); species of this genus are known to 

 parasitize certain other Chrysomelidje. 



45. Chrysomela chlorina, sp. nov. 



Body oblong, slightly broadened posteriorly. Colour of elytra 

 and underside metallic greenish with brassy or bronze reflections; 

 in some specimens the greenish colour is replaced by purple or 

 violaceous ; pronotum, legs and lateral margins of the abdominal 

 sternites faintly brown, a group of five small round spots on the 

 pronotum, and sometimes its anterior and posterior edges, 

 blackish ; two of these spots, in the middle, are more prominent, 

 the others more or less obsolescent; the six or seven basal 

 segments of the antennae shining brown, the rest blackish. 



Read broad, depressed in the middle, more or less closely and 

 strongly punctate, the punctures in the central depression 

 coalesce and produce rugulosity ; clypeus well delimited by two 

 deeply impressed oblique lines meeting at a point in the 

 depressed central area ; eyes strongly convex. Antennas short, 

 hardly reaching the base of the pronotum, the four apical 

 segments forming a thickened club covered with whitish hairs ; 

 first segment very large and globular, second shorter than third, 

 rounded at its apex and constricted at its base, third and fourth 

 more or less equal, fifth slightly shorter than fourth and similar 

 in structure to second, sixth and seventh very short; the six or 

 seven basal segments are sparsely punctate, each puncture 

 bearing a silvery-white hair. Prothorax broader than long, 

 front margins widely emarginate, base slightly convex in the 

 middle, from which point to the posterior lateral angle on either 

 side it is almost straight; sides straight, broadly rounded at the 

 anterior angles, posterior angles almost right angles ; on the 

 pronotum along the middle is a longitudinal, faintly but distinctly 



