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as follows : one on the middle of the basal part, two lying side 

 by side before the middle, two lying side by side behind the 

 middle, and one near the apex ; in some cases there are indistinct 

 black marks on the pronotum ; scutelluin pitch-brown. 



Head broad, with vertex impunctate, frontal tubercles round 

 and well-developed, interantennal area broadly raised. Antennae 

 hardly extending to the middle of the elytra; first segment long 

 and club-shaped, second thicker but not snorter than third, fourth 

 slightly longer than third, fifth about equal to fourth ; from the 

 sixth the segments are gradually but slightly thickened. Pro- 

 thorax broader than long, sides rounded, slightly margined, 

 anterior lateral angles thickened, basal margin gently sinuate at 

 each side, with a broadly rounded median lobe; surface smooth, 

 convex, sparsely punctate, the punctures being strongly impressed 

 and more crowded near the base and sides than elsewhere. 

 Scutellum small, triangular, with apex rounded and surface smooth 

 and impunctate. Elytra hardly broader at base than prothorax, 

 closely, confusedly, and strongly punctate, the punctures being 

 stronger than those on the pronotum, and less crowded on the 

 yellow spots than on the surrounding surface. Underside : upper 

 surface of middle tibiae broad with somewhat raised margins, 

 which are elevated into broad processes at the apex. 



In the male the front tibiae are bent and emarginate at the 

 apex. 



Length, 5 mm. 



India (type-locality). Himalayas (Andreiues). Darjeeling 

 (Hauser). 



Type of P. haroldi in the British Museum. 



There are in the British Museum two examples from the 

 Hauser Collection, which were described by Weise as Pentamesa 

 guttata, but ] think the latter is identical with P. haroldi. 



209. Pentamesa trigrapha, sp. nov. 



Head, antennae, and legs brown. Prothorax, elytra, and under- 

 side black; elytra with a bluish-green shimmer. On the pro- 

 notum there are three brown longitudinal stripes, one median and 

 one along each lateral margin ; the median stripe is somewhat 

 broadened at base and apex, and the lateral bands are some- 

 what broadened in front. Each elytron has six more or less 

 rounded brownish-yellow patches, which are disposed as follows : 

 one basal, two lying transversely before the middle, two others 

 similarly placed behind the middle, and one, of a somewhat 

 triangular shape, near the apex. Epipleura brownish-yellow, 

 and all the margins of the elytra very finely edged with brown. 

 Scutellum brownish. Bases of posterior femora blackish. The 

 whole insect is slightly shining, more so on the underside. 



Head with vertex impunctate, smooth, front with a few 

 scattered deep punctures, frontal tubercles and interantennal 

 elevation well-developed Antennas extending to about the- 



