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HALTlCINiE. 



patch on each elytron occupying the greater portion of the 

 surface. 



Head with vertex impunctate, frontal tubercles and inter- 

 antennal carina well developed. Antennae extending to a short 

 distance beyond the base of the elytra ; first segment ciub-shaped, 

 second small, rounded, third and fourth about equal, the apical 

 three or four segments thinner. ProtJiorax broader than long, 

 sides rounded, slightly diverging from the base to the middle, 

 anterior lateral angles obtuse, thickened, posterior angles also 

 slightly produced into a setiferous tubercle ; surface convex, 

 smooth, im punctate. Scutellum triangular, with apex rounded, 

 surface smooth and im punctate. Elytra broader at base than 

 prothorax, very minutely, confusedly and closely punctate. 



Length, 6| mm. (type-specimen). 



Hong Kong (type-locality ; Bowring). Formosa (Shiraki). 



I have referred to this species four examples, three from the 

 Andaman Islands, one of which was collected by Captain Wim- 

 berley, and the fourth from Tenasserim (Tavoy), collected by 

 Doherty. The variation in colour is slight, Wimberley's specimen 

 having the reddish-brown colour much paler and the tibiae brown, 

 while another Andaman example shows faint ribs on each elytron, 

 which is probably a secondary sexual character of the male. In 

 Captain Wimberley's Andaman specimen the apical segments of 

 the antennae are not thinner. In other respects the specimens 

 agree with Baly's type of ornata. The specimens from our regions 

 are somewhat smaller. 



Type in the British Museum. 



334. Phygasia dorsata, Baly. 



Phygasia dorsata, Baly, Aim. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) ii, 1878, p. 231. 



Body oblong-ovate. Colour shining black; elytra brownish- 

 yellow with a rather ovate sutural black patch, covering both 

 elytra from about the middle (where it is broad) and narrowing 

 at its apex ; the apex of the elytra is also black ; scutellum black ; 

 roots of antennas, with the apices and undersides of the first, 

 second and third segments, deep brown. 



Head with vertex impunctate. frontal tubercles and inter- 

 antennal carina well developed. Antennae extending to the 

 middle of the elytra ; second segment small and rouuded, third 

 equal to fourth, fifth to seventh somewhat thickened ; after that 

 the segments are progressively thinner. Prothorax broader than 

 long, sides rounded, margins channelled, anterior lateral angles 

 produced, thickened and obtuse ; the basal transverse furrow well 

 impressed and terminated on either side by a short longitudinal 

 impression ; surface convex, smooth and impunctate. Scutellum 

 triangular, with apex rounded and surface smooth and impunctate. 

 Elytra broader at base than prothorax, somewhat narrowed at the 

 apex, confusedly, finely and closely punctate ; on each elytron 



