PHYTODECTA. 



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stripes are faintly visible. Underside strongly punctate, the three 

 intermediate abdominal sternites narrow and edged with black. 

 The tibiae triangularly dilated and toothed near the apex, and 

 excavated in the same region on the upper side for the reception 

 of the first segment of the tarsus. The claws with an appendix 

 on the underside. 

 Length, 7|-8 mm. 



Bubma : Bhamo, July (L. Feci) ; Momeik (Doherty). 

 Type*\n the British Museum. 



51. Phytodecta manipuria, sp. nov. 



Body oblong-ovate. Colour shining yellow-brown to red-brown 

 with black markings on the head, pronotum and elytra arranged 

 as follows : one roundish patch in the centre of the upper surface 

 of the head ; at the base on each side of the longitudinal middle 

 line on the pronotum is a large triangular patch, the apex some- 

 times reaching the middle of the disc, and the bases of the two 

 triangular patches meeting in front of the scutellum ; on each 

 elytron at the base internal to the humeral callus a large patch, 

 on a median transverse line two large patches, generally confluent 

 in the middle, the inner one extending obliquely and along the 

 suture to the scutellum, on a post-median transverse line two 

 confluent patches which sometimes form a transverse, irregular 

 band, the inner patch generally extending and staining the suture 

 to some extent, and finally, on the apical area of the elytron, con- 

 tiguous to the suture, is a roundish spot which sometimes extends 

 along the suture to the apical angle, but is sometimes obsolescent. 

 Scutellum black. Underside almost entirely black, sometimes the 

 abdominal sternites are only partially so ; the legs always share 

 the general ground-colour of the body. 



Head: surface more or less uneven, closely punctate*, the arms 

 of the Y-shaped mark straight and sometimes very faint. 

 Antennae hardly passing beyond the base of the pronotum ; first 

 segment large, thickened, second small, third much longer, fourth 

 a little shorter than third, fifth and sixth are equal to each other, 

 from the seventh to eleventh the segments are gradually thicker 

 and piceous in colour. Prothorax as broad at the base as the base 

 of the elytra, front margin widely emarginate ; posterior margin 

 forming an almost straight, but slightly oblique line on each side 

 of the middle ; sides straight and parallel from the base to the 

 middle, whence they curve in towards the anterior angles, which 

 are rounded, the posterior ones being almost right angles ; upper 

 surface convex, more or less sparsely covered with a mixture of 

 finer and coarser punctures, the latter are mostly crowded on 

 the sides and the former in the middle area. Scutellum smooth, 

 impunctate and shining. Elytra almost parallel-sided, rounded at 

 the apex ; surface confusedly covered with finer and coarser 

 punctures, which however show some tendency to form rows; 

 some of the intervals, particularly one or two just within the 



