LUPEBOMOKPHA. 



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Head impunetate, frontal tubercles small, triangular, the carina 

 strongly raised, not very sharp. Antennae extending nearly to 

 the middle of the elytra; second and third segments short, about 

 equal or the latter slightly longer than the former, fourth 

 somewhat longer than fifth ; the following segments somewhat 

 thickened. Prothorax hardly broader than long, sides slightly 

 rounded, gradually narrowed in front, posterior angles strongly 

 oblique, anterior angles slightly produced and thickened; surface 

 rather flattened, extremely minutely punctate. Scutelhim smooth 

 and impunetate. Elytra wider at the base than the prothorax ; 

 closely, finelv and distinctly punctate. 



Length, 31 mm. 



Bombay: Belgaum (type-locality of P. Jlaviventris). Ciiota- 

 -Nagpub : Eanchi (Irvine/; type-locality of L. weisei). Niloiri 

 Hills (H. L. Andrewes). Mysore. 



Type of L. nigrijpennis in the Brussels Museum. A cotype 

 exists in the British Museum trom Mandar, and after comparing 

 this cotype with the types of P. Jlaviventris and L. weisei (both 

 in the British Museum) I am of opinion that the three 

 species are identical. The differences, viz., those in the front 

 of the head and the apical portion of the abdomen, together 

 with the smaller size, on which Jacoby relied to maintain L. weisei 

 as a separate species, may well be regarded as individual variations. 



279. Luperomorpha albofasciata, Duvivier. 



Luperomorpha albofasciata, Duviv., Ami. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxxvi, 

 1892, p. 428. 



Body somewhat oblong, more oval. Underside black ; pro- 

 sternum and anterior legs brown ; antennas and prothorax 

 yellow ; head reddish ; scutellum and elytra black, each elytron 

 behind the middle with a transverse white band (with irregular 

 borders) which does not reach the margin ; intermediate legs 

 marked with brown, knees reddish. 



Head smooth. Prothorax almost smooth, with very feeble 

 impressions at the middle of the disc, extremely finely punctate. 

 Scutellum very finely rugulose. Elytra distinctly punctate, 

 rugulose, each with a longitudinal impression inside the shoulder, 

 obliquely prolonged on the disc. 



Length, 3± mm. 



Darjeelixg District : Kurseong (Pere Braei). 

 Type in the Brussels Museum (unique). I have not seen this 

 species. 



280. Luperomorpha birmanica, Jacoby. 



Aphihona birmanica, Jac, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, xxxii, 1892, 

 p. 920. 



Colour generally dark brown ; head and antennae black, the 

 three basal segments of the latter piceous ; elytra paler brown, 



