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HALTICItf^. 



Burma: Bangoon (Fea) ; Toungoo ; Tharrawaddy. Tenas- 

 serjm : Kawkareik [Kawkareet], ii. 1887 (Fea). 

 Type in the Genoa Museum. 



341. Haltica semipiceus, Jaeoby. 



Haltica semipiceus Jac, Entomologist, xxxii, 1899, p. 81. 



Body oblong. Colour dark blue above, piceous on the under- 

 side ; the four or five basal segments of the antennae brownish, 

 the remaining segments piceous ; clypeus, labrum and maxillary 

 palpi dark pitch-brown ; legs piceous. 



Head with vertex convex and impunctate, separated from the 

 front by a transverse impression ; frontal tubercles well developed, 

 transverse ; clypeus triangularly raised, deflexed in front. Antennae 

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

 segment club-shaped, second small, thick, third and fourth equal, 

 fifth very slightly longer, sixth and each of the following segments 

 somewhat shorter. Froihorax somewhat broader than long, very 

 slightly narrowed in front, sides almost straight, margined, anterior 

 angles slightly thickened; surface not smooth, indistinctly and 

 finely punctate ; the basal transverse furrow not clearly distin- 

 guishable. Scutellum triangular, with apex rounded and surface 

 smooth and impunctate. Elytra broader at base than prothorax, 

 closely, distinctly and confusedly punctate. Underside sparingly 

 pubescent; the spine at the apex of the posterior tibiae well 

 developed. 



Length, 3-3 \ mm. 



Assam : Khasi Hills (Kraatz Coll.). 

 Type in the British Museum. 



This is the smallest species known from the countries under 

 review. 



342. Haltica nigripennis, Jacoby. 



Haltica (Graptodera ?) niyripennis, Jac, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 

 1887, p. 83. 



Body oblong. Colour of head, antennae, prothorax, breast and 

 legs yellow-brown ; elytra violet-bluish, the abdomen sharing the 

 colour of the elytra, but sometimes the violet component of the 

 colour is not prominent; the antennae and legs may be piceous in 

 some cases ; scutellum brownish. 



Head with vertex convex and impunctate, frontal tubercles 

 developed, though in some examples they may appear to be not 

 prominent. Antennae more than half the length of the body ; 

 first segment club-shaped, second small, globular; in some examples 

 each of the segments from the third to the sixth is somewhat 

 thickened at the apex and narrowed at the base ; the rest of the 

 segments are slender. Frotlxorax broader than long, sides rounded, 



