200 



HALTICIKjE. 



Head with vertex impunctate, separated from the rest of the 

 surface by a transverse impressed line ; interantennal space with 

 two ridges, which broaden towards the apex and inclose a deeply- 

 impressed line. Antennae extending to the middle of the body ; 

 first segment elongate and club-shaped, second small, third about 

 twice as long as second and somewhat longer than fourth ; in ihe 

 male the fifth and sixth are greatly dilated; seventh and eighth 

 small and equal, ninth longer, tenth and eleventh equal. Pro- 

 thorax somewhat broader than long or almost quadrate, broadest 

 in front and much narrowed behind at the constriction, a shallow 

 transverse depression in which there are a few deep punctures ; 

 the rest of the surface is impunctate ; anterior and posterior 

 angles each bearing a fine seta. Scutellum elongate, triangular, 

 surface impunctate. Elytra much broader at base than prothorax; 

 surface closely punctate, the punctures forming irregular and 

 closely -placed striae, which may be about sixteen or seventeen in 

 number, including the short scutellar row ; the punctures are 

 feeble and sparse on the convex basal and on the apical parts. 

 Underside smooth, impunctate, and very sparsely covered with 

 fine silvery hairs. 



Length, 4-4^ mm. 



United Provinces : Kumaon, Almora, vi. 1917 (H. G. Cham- 

 pion). Sikkim : Eungbong Valley, Gopaldhara (H. Stevens) : 

 this example has greenish -blue elytra and black pronotum. 



Type in the British Museum. Described from five examples. 



138. Eudolia nila*, sp. nov. 



Upper side blue, sometimes tinged with violet ; in the male the 

 two basal, in the female the six basal, segments of the antennae 

 are brownish-yellow ; legs brownish-yellow ; underside black, 

 abdominal sternites sometimes edged with brown. 



Head with vertex impunctate, the transverse impression 

 separating the vertex from the rest of the surface, and the inter- 

 antennal ridges inclosing a longitudinal impression as in E. hima- 

 layensis. Antennae extending to about the middle of the elytra ; 

 first segment elongate, second small, third about twice as long as 

 second and slightly longer than, or about equal to, the fourth ; 

 the fifth and sixth in the male not so thickened as in E. himalay- 

 ensis, but thicker than the basal segments ; the two following 

 shorter and small, ninth, tenth and eleventh almost equal, the 

 latter pointed ; in the female the apical segments from the fifth 

 onwards are not thickened as in the male. Prothorax somewhat 

 broader than long or almost quadrate, broadest in front, the 

 setiferous pores at each of the four corners more prominent than 

 in E. himalayensis ; surface convex, more sloping on each side 



* Sanskrit, ' ' blue." 



