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CHRYSOMELIM. 



the head and pronotum are generally entirely black. Such 

 specimens have net yet been recorded from within our limits, but 

 occur in Siberia and China. In all cases the fundamental unity of 

 the colour-pattern can be traced. The underside of typical 

 P. duodecimpustulata is generally entirely black, but in some 

 specimens the colour is much lighter ; in var. hieroglyphica it is 

 usually dark brown with black in the central area, but this may 

 be darker or lighter. This insect having so wide a distribution, 

 such variation may be expected. 



Head broad, entirely punctate, with the surface uneven. 

 Antennae passing beyond the base of the pronotum, first segment 

 club-shaped, second smaller than third, which is slightly longer 

 than the fourth, fifth is almost equal to fourth, from the sixth to 

 the eleventh the segments are slightly thicker. Prothorax much 

 broader than long, the shape and form being characteristic of the 

 genus; upper surface uneven, slightly depressed on the lateral 

 areas occupied by the black patches ; surface covered with finer 

 and coarser punctures, the former being on the central area 

 and the latter on the lateral. Scutellum triangular, smooth, i in- 

 put ictate. Elytra broader than the prothorax, not very thickly 

 punctate, the punctures more or less arranged in strise, which, 

 however, are not regular enough to be definitely counted; in 

 some specimens they are more regular than in others. Underside 

 smooth, shining, impunctate. 



Length, 6-8 mm. 



Assam : ( W. F. Badgley, Atkinson) ; Khasi Hills, 1000- 

 3000 ft,, Gauhati (Andreives) ; Shillong, 1000-5000 ft., v. 1905, 

 and Dumpep, Khasi Hills, 6000 ft., 19. x. 1920 (Fletcher), 

 10 examples from these localities in the Pusa Collection. Burma : 

 Ruby Mines (Doherty). Also known from Siberia and China. 



Location of type unknown to me. 



48. Paropsides nigropunctata, Jacoby. 



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

 p. 918. 



Body oval, convex. Colour shining dark red-brown to light 

 yellowish ; two round black spots on the head ; four black spots 

 or small patches on the pronotum and three on each elytron are 

 so arranged as to form a circle ; of the elytral spots the largest 

 one is nearest the suture and has the shape of an inverted comma, 

 the arms sometimes uniting and running along the suture to the 

 scutellum ; besides this pattern of spots each elytron has one 

 round one on the outer part of the disc just behind the middle. 

 All these spots are variable in size and intensity, in some cases 

 they are quite obsolescent, and sometimes they are much larger, 

 coalescing with each other. The apices of the mandibles are 

 black. 



Head broad, with surface strongly and closely punctate, the 

 Y- shaped mark is very wide, its oblique arms being curved at 



