262 



HALTICINjE. 



lateral margin lies a row of deeper punctures. Underside : pro- 

 sternum rather broad, subquadrate. 



Length, 5| mm. 



Nilgiri Hills. 



Type in the British Museum. 



187. Neorthaea subglobosa, Hope. 



Coerdnella subglobosn, Hope, in Gray, Zool, Misc. 1831, p. 31. 

 Playiouera subglobosa,Wehe, Coleopt. Oat., part 68 (Chrysomelinee), 

 1916, p. 136. 



Shining brown, with a slight bronzy sheen above : underside 

 rather lighter in colour. 



Head with the longitudinally raised area almost impunctate 

 except for a few minute scattered punctures ; interantennal space 

 convex, carina absent. Antennas hardly extending to the middle 

 of the elytra ; first segment the longest, club-shaped, second 

 slightly shorter than third, fourth also slightly shorter than third ; 

 the following segments more or less nearly equal one to the other, 

 slightly thickened and pubescent. Prothoracc broader than long, 



Fig. 98. -Neorthaea subglobosa, Hope. 

 Head, showing niedi;m longitudinal elevation on the frons; 

 mandibles not shown. 



basal margin somewhat sinuate at the middle, sides straighter at 

 the base and rounded towards the apex, anterior lateral angles 

 somewhat produced, posterior angles rounded, slightly greater 

 than a right angle ; surface convex from side to side, closely and 

 finely punctate, the punctures being much finer than those on 

 the elytra. ScuteUmn small, triangular, impunctate. Elytra 

 broader than prothorax, confusedly, strongly, and closely punctate ; 

 some much finer punctures are visible in the interstices, par- 

 ticularly at the base; humerus convex, impunctate; along the 

 basal part of the lateral margin is a raised impunctate strip. 

 Underside: abdominal sternites punctate; elytral epipleura trans- 

 versely wrinkled ; first segment of posterior tarsi broad, bilobed. 



Length, o\ mm. 



Nepal (Hardwick Coll.). 



Type in the British Museum. 



