LUPEKOMOKPHA. 



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282. Luperomorpha vittata, Duvivier. 



Luperomorpha vittata, Duviv., Ann. Soc. Enfc. Belg. xxxvi, 1892, 

 p. 427. 



Body oblong. Head, prothorax, and underside fawn-coloured ; 

 palpi blackish; meso- and metasterna, antennae (except the three 

 basal segments, which are red-brown) and posterior femora pitch- 

 brown ; legs brown ; scutellum brownish ; elytra brownish-black, 

 eacli having a large longitudinal yellowish stripe, rounded in front, 

 sinuate on the outer side at the middle, and terminated before the 

 apex. This species varies in the coloration of its various parts. 



Head smooth, but under a high power appearing very finely 

 granulate. Antennae about half the length of the body, robust ; 

 second and third segments subequal, each of the following seg- 

 ments as long as the first, distinctly thickened and pubescent. 

 Prothorax hardly broader than long, feebly narrowed in front and 

 behind, anterior border straight, sides slightly rounded, base a 

 little sinuate in front of the scutellum, posterior lateral angles 

 rounded, anterior oblique and each with a pore from which rises a 

 seta; surface finely punctate. Scutellum triangular. Elytra, with 

 the surface finely granulate and also finely punctate ; the apical 

 part of the surface has a few scattered hairs*. 



Length, 3| mm. 



Chota Nagpue : Barway (Pere Cardon). 



Type in the Brussels Museum. I have not seen this species. 



283. Luperomorpha bombayensis, Jacoby. 



Phyllotreta bombayensis, Jac, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xl, 1896, p. 257. 



Colour pale brown ; antennae (except the three basal segments), 

 breast and legs more or less black ; scutellum and elytra with the 

 suture and lateral margins all round and the apex blackish: 

 sometimes the blackish colour of the margins is so broad that the 

 pale part forms a longitudinal stripe, narrowed in the middle; 

 anterior legs and tibiae partly stained with brown ; abdominal 

 segments lighter brown, the apex darker ; labrum piceous. 

 In some specimens the underside and legs, as well as the elytral 

 margins, are obscure brown. 



Head impunctate, frontal tubercles obsolete, clypeus with a 

 distinct central ridge. Antennae rather robust, extending to 

 about the middle of the elytra ; first segment long and club- 

 shaped, second thickened, not shorter than the third, fourth and 

 fifth more elongate, rather stout, as are also the following slightly 

 shorter segments. Prothorax hardly broader than long, lateral 

 margins very slightly rounded, posterior angles obliquely rounded ; 



* Probably very easily detached . as they are called in the original descrip- 

 tion "'tres caduques." 



