PSYLLIOOES. 



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sides straight, obliquely truncate at- their front end; upper surface 

 smooth, convex from side to side, deeply but not very closely 

 punctate. Scutellum small, triangular, shining piceous. Elytra 

 broader than prothorax, but less so at the base, ovate, narrowed 

 from a short distance behind the shoulders to the apex. Each 

 elytron is impressed with eleven regular rows of punctures, in- 

 cluding a long scutellar and an extreme marginal row ; striae on 

 the outer half of the surface (and all to wards the apex) indistinctly 



Fig. 48. — Psylliodes brettinghami, Baly. 



sulcate, their interstices obsoletely convex, those on the inner 

 part of the disc in front flat, and all of them finely and remotely 

 punctate. 



Length, 3§ mm. 



The type-locality is simply "India." Bengal: Pusa, viii, 

 1912 and 1915, on Brinjal seedlings and leaves (0. C. Ghosh, 

 Pu^a Coll.). Bub ma : Uuby Mines (Doherty) • Tavoy, Tenasserim 

 ( Doherty). 



Type in the British Museum. 



In the six specimens in the British Museum from Baly's col- 

 lection the legs are more brownish than piceous ; but in two 

 examples from Tavoy and in the three from Ruby Mines the 

 underside and legs are more pitchy than either brownish or 

 reddish ; the examples from Eubv Mines are also darker blue 

 above. 



