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HALTICIN7E. 



absolutely sure from the one example before me, since this may 

 have been accidentally imported. From India proper it has 

 not yet been recorded. 



80. Epitrix lomasa *, noni. nov. 



Crepidodera hirtipennis, Jac. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1887, p. 90. 



Body oblong-ovate, narrowed at the apex. Colour pitcli -black ; 

 antennas and tarsi yellow, the four or five apical segments of the- 

 former fuscous. 



Fig. 50. — Epitrix /omasa, Maulik. 



Head impunctate, with some long white hairs, each arising From, 

 a small puncture ; frontal elevations indistinct. Antennas a little 

 shorter than the body ; first and second segments thickened and 

 almost equal, the third and the three following segments equal, 

 slightly shorter than the second but not so stout, the five terminal 

 segments slightly thickened. Prothorax somewhat broader than 

 long (not "rather more than twice as broad as long," as Jacoby 

 incorrectly states) ; sides in front nearly straight and convergent, 

 anterior angles ending in a blunt tooth, posterior almost right 

 angles ; disc strongly rugose-punctate, with a deep transverse 



* Sanskrit, "hairy." 



