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broad impunctate space, bounded on the extreme margin by a row 

 of punctures and on the inner side by two longitudinal series of 

 punctures, themselves enclosing a narrower impunctate interval ; 

 the punctures are in some specimens surrounded by dark rings ; 

 besides these large punctures there are very minute and sparsely 

 distributed punctures, visible under a high power, on ihe whole 

 surface. Underside thinly covered with tine hairs. 

 Length, 4^ mm. 



Btjkma : Teinzo, v. 1886 {Feu) ; Bhamo, vi. 1886 (Feci); Karen 

 Mts., v-xii. 1888 (Fea). Assam: Khasi Hills. 

 Type in the Genoa Museum. 



244. Sphaeroderma fulvipennis, HUger. 



Haltica fulvipennis IUig., Mag. Insektenkimde, vi, 1807, p. 156. 



Almost of the form of a Cyphon, ovate, somewhat convex, very 

 shining, the legs and underside with the usual short adpressed 

 hairs; black, the first two segments of the antennae, the mouth, 

 the underside of the prothorax, and the breast brownish, the 

 scutellum brown, the elytra oak coloured or brownish-yellow. 

 Between the roots of the antennae is an eievation in the form of 

 a keel, and over this is a median longitudinal impressed line 

 meetiug with two obliquely impressed lines. The head is narrower 

 than the prothorax, the latter is narrower than the elytra, nearly 

 twice as broad as long, somewhat narrowed in front, with front 

 margin widely emarginate, posterior margin also widely emarginate, 

 sides rounded, lateral margins with a channel, hind angles some- 

 what bluntly produced; the round edge of each side is brown, the 

 front angles thickened and broadened ; upper side transversely 

 convex, smooth and impunctate. The elytra are very finely 

 punctate, towards the apex smooth and impunctate. 



Length, 1| lin. [about 3-| mm.] : breadth, 11 lin. [about 2Jmm.]. 



Bengal (Daldorff). 



I am unaware of the location of the type of this species. The 

 above is taken from the original description in German. 



In the ' Bulletin of the Imperial Society of Naturalists of 

 Moscow,' xxxix, 1866, part. 1, no. 2, pp. 420-422, Motschulsky 

 described the following species from the regions under review : — 

 (1) Sphcero derma viridipennis (Nuwara Eliva, Ceylon), (2) Sphcero- 

 derma orbiculata^J tt ~East India "), (3) Sphceroderma gracilenta 

 (Nuwara Eliya, Ceylon), (4) Sphceroderma fulva (" Continental 

 India "), (5) Sphceroderma rufopicta (Nuwara Eliya, Ceylon). 



No. (1) was placed in Getnminger and Harold's 'Catalogue of 

 Coleoptera,' vol. xii (Munich, 1876j, in the genus Nisotra ; No. (2; 

 is described by comparing it with Sph. javana, Motsch. (Java), 

 which is again compared with Sph. indica, F. (described, despite 

 its name, from the Cape of Good Hope) ; No. (3) is described 

 by comparing it with Sph. testacea, E. (Europe) : No. (4) by 



