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HALTICINjE. 



bronze with greenish or bluish reflections; underside and antennae 

 black ; knees and tarsi brownish. 



Head with front impunctate and bearing short whitish hairs, 

 interantennal carina sharply elevated, vertex shining, impunctate. 

 Antennae extending a little beyond the middle of the elytra; first 

 segment long and thickened, second much shorter than first, third 

 slightly longer than second, fourth slightly longer than third, fifth 

 about equal to fourth, sixth somewhat shorter; the following 

 segments somewhat thickened. Prothorax broader than long, very 

 slightly narrowed in front, sides very feebly rounded ; surface, 

 seen under a high power, finely granulose and closely covered with 

 punctures. Scutelhtm small, triangular, with apex rounded and 

 surface shining and impunctate. Elytra hardly broader at base 

 than prothorax, separately rounded at their apices, closely covered 

 with punctures similar to those of the pronotum. 



Length, 2 mm. ; breadth. -| mm. 



Darjeelikg : Kurseong (P. Braet ; type-locality). 



Type in the Brussels Museum. 



^99. Phyllotreta downesi, Bah/. 



Phyllotreta downesi, Baly, Trans. Ent. Soc. Loud. 1877, p. 300. 



Body elongate. Colour metallic green with a bluish tint; 

 antennas black, the three basal segments piceous, suffused with 

 bronzy-black ; underside black ; posterior femora metallic green ; 

 scute Hum shining black. 



Head with a few minute scattered punctures, frontal tubercles 

 quadrangular, contiguous, the surface behind them faintly rugulose, 

 the iuterantennal carina straight, sharp. Antennae more than 

 two-thirds the length of the body ; first segment long and club- 

 shaped ; according to Baly the second and third segments are 

 short and equal, but I have no means of verifying this statement, 

 because the type-speidmen lacks all the segments except the first. 

 Prothorax broader than long, basal margin almost straight with a 

 slight median lobe, sides nearly parallel, rounded and converging 

 to the front margin, anterior lateral angles thickened, obliquely 

 truncate, the posterior pair right angles ; surface granulose, 

 rather closely covered with shallow round punctures, ticutellum 

 triangular, with apex rounded and with surface smooth and 

 impunctate. Elytra narrowly ovate, hardly broader at base than 

 prothorax, more deeply punctate than the pronotum ; the punc- 

 tures are close together and have some arrangement in longi- 

 tudinal rows ; interspaces granulose ; behind the middle there are 

 some distinctly raised ribs. Underside smooth, shining, nearly 

 impunctate; posterior tibiae ending in a spine. 



Length, '6h mm. 



Bombay {Dr. E. Doivnes). Tenassekim : Tavoy {Doherty) ; 

 there are four specimens referable to this species in the British 

 Museum from this locality; in these the second and third antennal 



