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CHRYSOMELINiE. 



2. Pronotum with three roundish black 



patches and each elytron with a ) P. duodecimpustulata f Geh\er f 

 pattern of sixteen black patches . . . . | var. hieroglyhica, Gebler, 

 No such markings . 3. [p. 73. 



3. Body more convex and larger, length 



11-12 mm., breadth 8 mm., generally 

 with four black spots on the pronotum 

 and a few on the elytra ; elytral 



punctures generally irregular P. nigropunctata, Jac, p. 74. 



Body more elongate, length 10 mm., 

 breadth 7 mm., without any markings 

 at all ; punctures arranged in ten 



rows on each elytron P. chennelli, Baly, p. 76. 



46. Paropsides pardalis, Jacoby. 



Paropsides pardalis, Jac, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, xxxii. 1892, 

 p. 918 



Body convex, rounded. Colour shining dark red-brown to 

 lighter brown ; each elytron lias six lighter-coloured roundish 

 patches disposed as follows : one at the base just outside the 

 scutellum, another behind the humerus, a third placed near it 

 on the inner side, the fourth and fifth on a transverse line 

 behind the middle, and finally the sixth situated on the apical 

 area. Apices of the mandibles, edges of the prosternum, the 

 mesosternum and the middle coxae, black. 



Head broad, surface covered with finer and coarser punctures, 

 the oblique arms of the Y-shaped mark enclosing a very wide 

 angle and curved inwardly at their apices ; eyes convex and 

 placed obliquely. Antennas hardly passing beyond the base of the 

 prothorax, the five apical segments dilated and very sparsely 

 covered with fine hairs ; first segment thickened and club-shaped, 

 second short, third slightly longer than fourth, fifth and sixth 

 almost equal to each other in length. Prothorax as broad as the 

 elytra at the base and twice as broad as long; front margin 

 emarginate, from one anterior angle to the other the margin 

 forms a wide and continuous arch ; upper surface confusedly and 

 more or less uniformly covered with coarser and finer punctures. 

 Scutellum triangular, smooth and impunctate. Elytra convex ; 

 each elytron has one long scutellar row of punctures and nine 

 other rows, between the ninth (outermost) row and the margin 

 there are some confused punctures ; in some examples the 

 punctures are black, in others not. Underside smooth, shining, 

 impunctate. The convex prosternum is channelled longitudinally 

 in the middle. 



Length, 8 mm. 



BtrnMA : Karen Hills (Fea, Doherty, type-locality); Ruby 

 Mines, 5500-7500 ft. Assam: Sadiva {Doherty)-, Manipur 

 {Doherty). 



Type in the British Museum. 



