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HALTICINiE. 



the margins more or less broadly piceous or black ; scutellum, 

 breast, and apices of hind femora piceous ; coloration of the 

 underside variable, the brown is stained with piceous and some- 

 times the hind legs are black. 



Head impunctate, frontal elevatious almost entirely obsolete, 

 interantennal carina well developed. Antennae half the length of 

 the body ; second and third segments short, about equal, or the 

 latter slightly longer than the preceding one; the following seg- 

 ments somewhat thickened. Prothoracc hardly broader than long, 

 sides nearly straight, posterior angles distinctly oblique ; surface 

 without any impression, finely granulate, and with a few very fine 

 punctures. Scutellum triangular, with apex rounded and surface 

 impunctate. Elytra broader at base than prothorax, extremely 

 finely and confusedly punctate, and very finely granulate, the 

 apical part of the surface bearing a few scattered erect setae, 

 which can be seen in a suitable light and under a high power. 



Length, 3} mm. 



Burma : Pegu (Fea) ; Palon (Fea). 



The actual type is in the Genoa Museum. There is also one 

 example with Fea's label, and marked " type," in the British 

 Museum. 



281. Luperomorpha discoidea, Jacoby. 



Phyllotreta discoidea, Jac, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1887, p. 84. 



Head, prothorax and abdomen deep brown, the last segment of 

 the abdomen black ; antennae, breast and legs black, the basal 

 segments of the antennae partly brown $ elytra lighter brown with 

 the suture and margins narrowly black, the sutural stripe generally 

 narrowed near the base ; front femora slightly stained with brown 

 below, the points of articulation of the parts of the ]egs also much 

 suffused with brown. 



Head impunctate, frontal tubercles transverse, narrow, and very 

 distinct. Antennae half the length of the body ; first segment long 

 and club-shaped, third smaller than second, fourth longer than 

 fifth ; the following segments gradually thickened. Prothorax 

 transversely quadrate, sides slightly rounded ; surface finely 

 granulate and punctate, rather flat, with a very obsolete and 

 shallow depression at the middle of each side. Scutellum triangular, 

 with apex rounded and impunctate. Elytra broader at base than 

 prothorax, parallel, not covering the pygidium ; surface finely 

 granulate and punctate, the punctures being fine and not close 

 together. 



Length, 3 mm. 



Ceylon: Bogawantalawa (G. Lewis); Kandy, vi. 1908 (67. E. 

 Bryant); Galle, on coast-level, 27. xi-4. xii. 1881 (6r. Lewis). 

 Type in the British Museum. 



