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HALTICINjE. 



Key to the Species. 

 . Upper side of one uniform colour, 



without marking's 2. 



Upper side with markings 4. 



Upper side uniform yellow-brown . . P. lutea, Oliv., p. 222. 

 Upper side deep chestnut-ivd 3. 



Underside black P. rufocastanea, Baly, p. 223. 



Underside yellow p. pitalohita, sp. n., p. 224. 



Elytra chequered, irrorated or 

 speckled with black or deep pitch- 

 brown on a brown background . . P. congregata, Baly, p. 224. 



Elytra with black spots and patches 

 on a brown background 5. 



The two elytra together have fourteen 

 black spots, some of which fuse 

 and form bands across each elytron ; 

 in some varieties these bands are 



very broad and the colour pitch- [p. 225. 



brown P. quatuordecimjmnctata, L., 



The two elytra together have ten 

 black spots, some of which by 

 fusing often form one band across 



the middle of each elytron P. affinis^ Grond., p. 227. 



158. Podontia lutea, Olivier. 



Chri/somela lutea, Oliv., Encyclopedie Metli3dique, v, 1790, p. 692 : 



id., Entomologie, 1807, p.' 539, pi. 1, fig. 13. 

 Galleruca c/randis, Grondal in Schonherr's Synonymia Insectorum 



i, 2, 1808, p. 288. 



. Form of the body as stated under the genus. Colour shining 

 yellow-brown ; tibiae, tarsi, and the seven apical segments of the 

 antennae black ; femora slightly tinged with red. 



Head with vertex somewhat convex, the fine longitudinal 

 impression in some cases absent; surface extremely finely and 

 sparsely punctate, and sometimes the extremely fine superficial 

 granulation produces a dullness. Other structures, including the 

 autenuae, are as stated under the genus. Proihorax of the form 

 described under the genus ; surface apparently impunctate, but 

 in certain lights it is seen to be extremely minutely and sparsely 

 punctate; it also presents an extremely fine granulation; the 

 depression on either side of the middle part of the disc is some- 

 times very deep, while, external and somewhat posterior to each 

 of these depressions, there is on either side another small one, 

 the two together in some cases producing a large ill-defined 

 excavation; in front of the basal median lobe is a smaller 

 depression. Scutellum small, impunctate. Elytra in shape and 

 punctuation as described under the genus ; the marginal broad 

 interstice is somewhat raised, more so towards the apex. Under- 

 side finely and thinly pubescent. 



Length, 13-15^ mm. ; breadth, 7|-8| mm. 



