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insects collected by Captain Boys in the twenties or thirties of 

 the nineteenth century, labelled only " E. India, Boys " ; one of 

 these insects is marked "type" and labelled in Jacoby's hand- 

 writing " Blepharida hirsuta" but I am unable to trace any 

 published description of it by Jacoby. In 1901 Stebbing collected 

 several specimens from Poona, which were identified in the British 

 Museum as Blepharida hirsuta, Jacoby ; and in 1914 Stebbing 

 published a short description of the insect (loc. cit.) without 

 knowing that Jacoby 's name was a manuscript name. I have no 

 doubt that Stebbing's insects from Poona are the same species as 

 those of Boys which bear Jacoby 'fl MS. name, and according to 

 rale the authorship of this species must be ascribed to Stebbing. 

 But I think it should be placed in Ophrida at present, although 

 it is possible that it may be made the type of a new genus, 

 considering the somewhat different shape of its prothorax, the 

 presence of costse on the elytra! interstices, and the complete 

 hairiness of the body. Without more material I do not, however, 

 propose to erect a new genus. From amongst Stebbing's speci- 

 men's in the British Museum I have selected a good one a^ 1 he 

 type of this species. 



Fig. 83. — Ophrida marmorea, VVied. 



165. Ophrida marmorea, Wiedemann. 



Haltica marmorea, Wied., Zool. Mag. i, o, 1819, p. 181. 



Podontia mouhoti, Baly, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. (3) ii, 1865, p. 431. 



Body oblong, somewhat narrowed behind. General colour 

 dark red-brown ; elytra mottled with yellow, or sometimes the 

 yellow colour predominates and forms the background, in which 



