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CHRYSOMELINiE. 



Scutellum triangular, small, smooth and impunctate. Elytra 

 broader than the prothorax, parallel, rather strongly punctured, 

 the punctures arranged in ill- defined longitudinal rows which 

 approximate towards the apex, the interspaces plain and very 

 minutely punctured in front, rugnlose outwardly below the 

 humeral rail us. Underside impunctate except the margins of the 

 abdominal sternites, each of which has a row of fine punctures. 

 Basal segment of the tarsi large, that of the anterior ones more 

 broadened, the third (bilobed) segment not entire, that is, split 

 longitudinally along the middle; claws appendiculate. 

 Length, 6 mm. 



Punjab: Murree (Dr. F. StoUczTca); same place, 7500 ft., 

 vi. 1918, 5 examples (Butt, Pusa Coll.). United Provinces: 



Pig. 29. — Phyllodecta abdominalis, Baly. 



Naini Tal ; Garhwal, 6500 ft. ; Sunderdhunga Valley, 8000- 

 12,000 ft. ; all these three places in Kumaon, 16 specimens (H. 

 G. Champion). 



The type should be in the Indian Museum, where, however, it 

 cannot be found, though the label is there ["Murree" (Yarkand 

 Expd.)] in Baly's handwriting. In the British Museum there is 

 also a specimen which bears a label in Baly's handwriting, but 

 it has "Kashgar" as the locality. "Murree" is the locality 

 originally published. Dutt's and Champion's specimens, recorded 

 above, lend weight to the view that Murree is correct as the 

 original place, Dutt having taken this species there in 1918, and 

 Champion's captures having been obtained not far away. I have 

 compared Champion's specimens with the specimen labelled by 

 Baly in the British Museum, and they agree. 



