SEBJETHE. 



Length, 5-J mm. 



Nilgiri Hills (6r. F. Hampson). 



Type in the British Museum. Described from one example. 



310. Sebaethe lusca, Fabricius. 



Crioceris lusca, Fabr., Syst. Eleuth. i, 1801, p. 456. 

 Sphceroderma lusca, Gemminger and Harold, Cat. Coleopt. xii, 

 1876, p. 3548. 



Sebccthe lusca, Duvivier, Cat. Chrys. Haltic. Galeruc, Mem. Soc. 



Boy. Sci. Liege, (2) xi, 1885, p. 34. 

 \'ar. variabilis, Jacobv, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, xxii, 1885, p. 48._ 

 Var. bipustulata, Jacoby, Novitates Zool. i, 1894, p. 291. 



Body oblong-ovate. Colour of prothorax generally brown, but 

 it may be pitch- brown to black ; the three basal segments of the 

 antennas brown but similarly varying to black, the eight apical 

 segments always blackish ; the central part of each elytron is 

 always pale yellowish, while the remaining portions are dark 

 pitch-brown to black, generally the latter ; underside varying 

 from fuscous to black ; even when it is fuscous some parts, such 

 as a large area on the posterior femora, are blackish ; scutellum 

 generally sharing the colour of the pronotum. 



Head with vertex impunctate, frontal tubercles with a finely 

 impressed longitudinal line between them and separated from the 

 vertex by a more strongly impressed transverse line, interantennal 

 carina sharply raised. Antennas extending to about the middle of 

 the elytra ; first segment long and club-shaped, second small, 

 third longer than second, fourth longer than third, from the fifth 

 to the last the segments are somewhat thicker, fifth, sixth and 

 seventh equal, each of the following segments somewhat shorter 

 but equal to each other. Prothorax broader than long, sides 

 rounded, with their margins somewhat explanate and reflexed, 

 anterior lateral angles thickened, each of the four bearing a fine 

 seta; surface almost impunctate, but seen under a high power to 

 be extremely finely and sparsely punctate, the punctures varying 

 to a certain extent as regards the depth of their impression. 

 Scutellum triangular, with apex rounded and surface impunctate. 

 Elytra somewhat broader at the base than prothorax; surface 

 finely, confusedly and more or less closely punctate. Underside 

 thinly covered with fine hairs. 



Length, 4|-5 mm. 



Mala.y Peninsula : Perak (Doherty) ; Penang, x. 1913 (G. E. 

 Bryant). Java. Sumatra : Merang (Doherty) • Engano Is. 

 (Doherty); Ajer Mantcior, viii. 1878 (D. Beccari). Borneo : 

 Pengaron (Doherty). Burma. : Paungcle, Momeik [Monieit] and 

 Karen Mts. (Doherty) ; Tharrawaddy, Bhamo Hills, 4000 ft., v. 

 1916 (F. M. Mackwood). 



Type of Crioceris lusca, Fabr.. in the Copenhagen Museum 

 (Sehestedt Coll. ; collected by Daldorff in Sumatra). 



