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HALTICINjE. 



The following three species of Motschulsky are included here, 

 as they were described from Ceylon and India, and a translation 

 of the original remarks under each species is given. They are 

 not incorporated in the key on p. 367: — 



Aphthona nigrita, Motschulsky. 



Aphthona nigrita, Motsch., Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. xxxix, 1866, part 1, 

 no. 2, p. 418. 



In form and colour resembles A. euphorbias [Europe], but some- 

 what smaller. Oblong-ovate, convex, shining, almost glabrous, 

 black, base of antennae and legs pale, posterior femora black. 



Length, 1*9 mm. : breadth, 1| mm. [j and \ lin. respectively]. 



Ceylon : from the mountains of Nuwara Eliya. 



[ The British Museum has an example doubtfully determined 

 as this species.] 



Aphthona cyanipennis, Motschulsky. 

 Aphthona cyanipennis, Motsch., t. c. p. 419. 



Following the remarks on the preceding species, this species is 

 proposed in the following words : — 



" On the Continent of India there exists one more species 

 which in form, shape and colour resembles A. eoerulea, Payk. 

 [Europe], but which has the head and prothorax reddish-brown. 

 I have named this A. cyanipennis." 



Aphthona viridifusca, Motschulsky. 



Aphthona viridifusca, Motsch., Etud. Ent. vii. 1858, p. 106. 



In size and form it resembles H. eoerulea, P;iyk.* [Europe], but 

 the colour of the upper side is more blackish. The femora are 

 black in the middle, particularly the hind pair ; the tibiae and 

 tarsi and the greater part of the antennae brown : the first 

 segment of the latter, the mouth-parts, knees and bases of the 

 tarsi testaceous. The pronotum is more rectangular, the anterior 

 angles more prominent, and the punctuation finer. The elytra 

 are more parallel in front, the humeral angles more prominent, 

 the punctuation coarser, much less close, and almost arranged in 

 striae. 



Ceylon (Metner). 



[The British Museum contains an example determined as this 

 species.] 



* Motschulsky wrote thus, " H. eoerulea, Payk.", doubtless meaning 

 A. [=Aphtho?ia] coendea, Pa)k. H. eoerulea would properly mean Haltica 

 eoerulea, which is Olivier's, not Paykull's, species. 



