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Burma : Kalaw, 4300 ft., 4. v. 1918 (A. G. R., Pusa Coll.). 

 China: Macao (F. W. Terry). IndoChina: Tonkin, Hoabinh, 

 viii. 1918, and Tien Su, 4. v. 1917 (R. Vital is de Salvaza). 

 Eokmosa : Horisha, v. -viii. 1918 (//. Kawamaru). 



In the original description the locality mentioned is "East 

 Indies," a very vague expression which implies that the insect 

 came from the East and does not necessarily mean India. I find 

 no authentic record to show that the insect occurs in India 

 proper. 



Type presumably in the Paris Museum. 



159. Podontia rufocastanea, Bah/. 



Podontia rufocastanea, Baly ; Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) xvi, 1865, 

 p. 405. 



Body broad, oblong. Colour sinning deep chocolate- or 

 chestnut-red ; underside (that of the prothorax excepted), legs, 

 and the seven apical segments of the antennae, black. 



Head with vertex somewhat convex, ira punctate and with a faint 

 longitudinal median impression ; there is a deep channel above 

 each eye, this channel being continued into the interantennal 

 space; the latter space contains a broad longitudinal raised area. 

 Antennas extending to a little distance beyond the base of the 

 pronotum ; the first four segments shining, the rest opaque, 

 pubescent ; first segment long, club-shaped, second small, shorter 

 than third, fourth equal to third; from the fifth to the end the 

 segments are more or less nearly equal. Prothorax broader than 

 long (length three, breadth live, millimetres in the example 

 measured), its shape as described under the genus ; surface uneven, 

 but smooth, and apparently impunctate ; at certain angles, however, 

 extremely fine and scattered punctures are visible, at least in the 

 type-specimen; on either side of the middle of the disc there is a 

 depression which may be deep or shallow, large or small, and other 

 small depressions may be present in individual specimens, mostly 

 towards the base or sides, the species presenting a good deal of 

 variation in this respect. Scutellum shaped as described under 

 the genus, impunctate. Elytra: form and other characters as is 

 normal in this genus ; the punctures of the rows are fine, the 

 last and broadest interstices somewhat raised, more so towards 

 the apex. Underside : abdominal sternites finely pubescent. 



Length, 13|-13g mm.; breadth, 7|-7f mm. 



The type-specimen is labelled merely " India." Other examples 

 are from Assam (W. I 1 . Badgley); Khasi Hills, Shillong, xi. 1916 

 and viii.-x. 1919 (Fletcher, Pusa Coll.); N. Khasi Hills (Godwin- 

 Austen, Indian Museum). 



Type in the British Museum. 



