EUPHITREA. 



177 



Body small (3 mm. long ) ; first seg- 

 ment of posterior tarsi equal to 

 the three following segments 

 together 



Aphthonella, Jac, 



[p. 281. 



Genus EUPHITREA, Baly. 



Euphitrea, Baly, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, 1875, p. 27. 

 Euphymasia, Jacoby, Stettin. Ent. Zeit. lx, 1899, p. 310. 



Genotype, Euphitrea wallacei, Baly (Sumatra, Java). 



Body rounded, convex. Head short, broad, frontal tubercles 

 not prominent, somewhat oblique, interantennal carina obsolete. 

 Antennae moderately long, hardly extending to the middle of the 

 elytra ; the three basal segments generally without hairs, the rest 

 pubescent and generally slightly thickened. Prothorax broader 

 than long, somewhat convex. Seutellum small, triangular, with 

 apex pointed. Elytra broader at base than prothorax, confusedly 

 and closely punctate; their epipleura broad, continued to the 

 apex, where they are somewhat narrowed, Underside : anterior 

 coxae raised, the cavities being closed behind; presternum chan- 

 nelled along the middle ; mesosternum short, erect, hidden by the 

 apex of the metasternum ; metasternum extending between the 

 mesocoxce to the prosteruum ; legs moderately robust ; posterior 

 femora moderately thickened ; tibiae broadened towards the apex, 

 flattened and somewhat sulcate on the outer surface, the posterior 

 pair armed with a small spine at the apex ; claws appendiculate. 



Range. India. Sumatra, Java. 



The type of Jacoby's genus Ewphymasia is E. dohrni, from 

 Sumatra, the type of which is in the British Museum ; after com- 

 paring it with Baly's type of Euphitrea tuallacei, also in the 

 British Museum, I have no doubt that the two are the same 

 species. This was already recognized by Dr. Gahnn when he 

 arranged the Haltictn^e and Gaijckucin^e in the collection of 

 the British Museum— an observation which was incorporated by 

 Bryant in his paper " Notes on Synonymy in the Phytophaga," 

 Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) xii, 1923,' p. 143.* . 



Euphitrea (?) birmanica, Harold (p. 179), is not included in the 

 key, owing to the uncertainty as to its identity and generic 

 position. 



Key to the Species. 



Elytra brown, without a metallic bronzy 

 sheen 



Elytra brown, with a metallic bronzy 

 sheen 



E. indica, Jac, p. 178. 

 E.foveicollis, Jac, p. 179. 



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