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case the mottling is red-brown ; an indistinct, arrangement in 

 oblique bands across each elytron may be recognised, and the 

 centres of the punctures are always deep red-brown. 



Head with vertex extremely minutely punctate ; the channels 

 round the eyes are deep. Antennas usually formed as is normal 

 in the genus, but in some examples the fourth segment appears to 

 be somewhat longer than the third ; from the fifth the segments 

 are slightly more thickened ; the first segment is always thickened 

 and club-shaped. Prothorax : form as stated in the description 

 of the genus ; surface uneven, the lateral depressions varying con- 

 siderably ; on either side, perpendicular to the front margin, is a 

 long deep impression, and at right angles to it, lying transversely 

 almost at the middle of the length, is another impression extending 

 to the lateral margin ; often this latter impression is full of 

 deep punctures, while sometimes it is quite obsolete ; opposite 

 to the long impression perpendicular to the front margin, 

 and a little external to it, there is on either side a short and 

 deep impression perpendicular to the basal margin ; the basal 

 part of the surface crowded with deep punctures. Scutellum 

 smooth, impunctate. Elytra as described under the genus ; inter- 

 stices flat, except towards the base, where they appear to be 

 somewhat raised. Underside covered with fine hairs. 



Length, 10£ mm.; breadth, 5^ mm. 



Bengal: (type-locality); Buxa, Duars, v. 1907 (D. Nowrojee, 

 Pusa Coll.). United Provinces : Jolikote, 9. v. 1915, on cherry 

 (Pusa Coll.); Kumaon, Tanakpur (H. G. Champion). Assam: 

 Naga Hills (Captain Butler). Buema : Lashis, 5. iv. 1918 

 (A. G. R., Pusa Coll.); Maymyo, v. 1910 (H. L. Andrewes); 

 Ehamo, viii. 1885 (L. Fen) ; Rangoon, Magai Forest, ii. 19u5 

 (Stebbing). defoliating Holarrhina untidy sent erica. Nilgiri Hills 

 (G. F. Haynpson) ; Madura. Java. Siam : Laos (type-locality of 

 P. mouhoti); Koh Si Chang, iv. 1919 (E. W. Trotter). 



Type and another original example in the Copenhagen Museum 

 (teste Kai L. Henriksen, in litt., xi. 1925). 



166. Ophrida flavopustulata, Baly, 



BlepharidaJJavopustulata, Baly, Cist. Eat. ii. 1879, p. 441. 



Body ovate, somewhat narrowed behind. Colour shining red- 

 brown ; labrum, tarsi and many small roundish spots on the 

 elytra, arranged in longitudinal lines on the interstices, yellow ; 

 breast black ; apices of mandibles pitchy -blackish. The yellow 

 spots on the elytra are not arranged according to any very regular 

 pattern ; they are about thirty-eight in number ; roughly speaking, 

 there is a longitudinal row along the sutural interspace, then on 

 alternate interspaces there are two more rows, the spots in 

 each of these rows being placed at some distance one from the 

 other; then, after an interval of two interspaces, there are spots 

 along the three marginal interspaces, situated in basal, median, 



