388 



HALTICIX^ 



Length, 4 mm. 



Bun ma : Ruby Mines (Doherty). 



Type in the British Museum. Described from one example. 



304. Sebaethe pallidicincta, Jacoby. 



Sebcethe imllidicincta, Jac, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xlviii, 1904,. 

 p. 390. 



Colour yellow-brown; antennae black with the basal segmeut 

 entirely, and the two following segments at the base, brown;, 

 pronotum with five obscure small rounded fuscous spots disposed 

 as follows : four in a curved line across the middle, and the fifth 

 (which is hardly recognisable) central in position ; elytra dark 

 metallic green, the lateral and apical margins yellow-brown, the 

 latter broadly so; sides of the breast and apices of the posterior 

 femora, as well as the knees and the tarsi, black ; scutellum 

 black. 



Head iinpunctate, frontal tubercles triangular. Antennae 

 slender, extending to nearly the middle of the elytra ; third seg- 

 ment one-half longer than second and hardly shorter than fourth - r 

 the following segments about equal. Prothorax about two and 

 a half times longer than broad, slightly narrowed in front, sides 

 with a narrow reflexed margin ; surface sparsely and finely 

 punctate. Scutellum broad, triangular, with apex rounded and 

 surface impunctate. Elytra broader at base than prothorax, 

 very finely and closely punctate. 



Length, 5| mm. ; breadth, 3^ mm. 



Nilgiei Hills ( Andre wes Coll.). Travancore (see below). 

 Type in the British Museum. 



Closely allied to S.flavolimbata, Jac, but distinguished by having 

 the segments of the antennre of different relative lengths, the 

 prothorax shorter, more transverse and spotted, and the apices of 

 the posterior femora black. 



There is one example in the British Museum from Travancore 

 Tea Company (6r. S. Imray) which I consider to be a variety of 

 this species ; it has the obsolescent spots on the pronotum not 

 visible, the margins of the elytra dark metallic green (the apex 

 being brown as in the typical form) and the yellow-brown colour 

 darker. 



305. Sebaethe iobaphes, sp. nov. 



Body oblong-ovate. Colour of elytra bronzy-violet or pure 

 violet ; head, prothorax, front and middle legs (except the tarsi), 

 pro- and meso-sterna and the three basal segments of the 

 antennae, brown ; the eight apical segments of the antennas and the 

 underside blackish. The coloration varies ; the brown of the legs 

 is often mixed with blackish, more so in some parts than in 

 others ; on the pronotum there may be ill-defined blackish patches ; 

 in one example (from S. Shan States, 4000 ft.) the brown^ is 



