382 HALTICINJB. 



and the angle itself possessing a seta-bearing pore ; surface convex 

 from side to side, smooth and impunctate. Scutellum broader 

 than long, triangular, with apex broadly rounded and surface 

 finely shagreened. Elytra hardly broader at base than prothorax, 

 but becoming broader immediately behind; humerus raised, 



Fig. 128.- • Morylus fidvipe/iuis, Jac. 



convex and impunctate ; the entire surface is closely, irregularly 

 and more or less deeply punctate. Underside: abdominal sternites 

 sparsely covered with long silvery hairs, the other parts smooth 

 and glabrous. 



Length, 3 mm. ; length of antenna, 2± mm. 



Ceylon (67. Lewis). 



Type in the British Museum. 



Genus SEB^THE, Baly. 

 Sebcethe, Baly, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) xiv, 1864, p. 438 ; Chapuis, 



Gen. Col. xi, 1875, p. 79. 

 Genotype, Haltica badia, Erichson (Philippine Is.). Baly 

 founded the genus ou this species. 



Body oblong or oblong-ovate, often broad, moderately convex. 

 Colour metallic or brown, or the upper side of the elytra has a 

 pattern. Head as broad as the prothorax, with vertex more or 



