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HALTICJNJJE. 



confluent at the apex with the suture, reddish-piceous ; antenna? 

 piceous with the three basal segments entirely, and the fourth 

 partly, reddish-brown ; legs entirely red-brown; underside piceous. 



Pronotum finely punctate. Elytra very densely punctate, the 

 punctures arranged to some extent in longitudinal series. Fifth 

 segment of the antenna? in the male long and somewhat thickened. 



Length, 2 mm. 



Burma. 



Type apparently unknown. 



297. Phyllotreta oncera, sp. nov. 



Body oblong, parallel-sided. Colour black, with a slight bronzy 

 tint ; the points of articulation of the segments of the legs and the- 

 three basal segments of the antennae brown. 



Fig. 1 20- — Vhfllotreta oncera. Maulik. 



Head with the vertex impunctate, but the surface finely" 

 reticulate ; frontal tubercles completely absent, interantennal 

 carina broad; eyes not prominent. Antenna? one millimetre 

 shorter than the length of the body ; first segment long, second 

 very small, almost globular, third broadened at the apex, fourth 

 enormously expanded and flattened in the male; the following 

 segments more or less nearly equal, and not very elongate. 



