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anterior and posterior lateral angles also rounded, front margin 

 straight ; surface convex, seen under a high power to be extremely 

 minutely and very sparsely punctate ; the basal transverse de- 

 pression is present although it does not extend to the sides. 

 Scutellum narrow, triangular, with apex rounded. Elytra nearly 

 parallel-sided, with apex rounded ; surface closely, finely and 

 confusedly punctate. 



I believe that this species will be regarded as belonging to a 

 different genus. In it the posterior coxal cavities are open 

 behind, the posterior femora are considerably thickened, the 

 posterior tibiae are somewhat longer than the front or the middle 

 pairs and they end in a spine ; the first segment of the posterior 

 tarsi is equal to the two following together, and the claws are 

 appendiculate. But without further material it is convenient to 

 retain the species in Haltica. 



Length, 4 mm. 



Ceylon : Colombo, 7-27. iv. 1885 (G. Leivis). 

 Type in the British Museum. 



343. Haltica caerulescens, Baly. 



Graptodera ccerulescens, Baly, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1874, p. 190; 

 id., Cist. Ent. ii, 1878, p.^76. 



Body oblong-ovate, convex. Colour metallic blue above and 

 shining blue-black on the underside; antennas black. 



Head with vertex smooth, im punctate ; frontal tubercles oblique, 

 transverse, subquadrate, contiguous at the apex, separated from 

 the front by a distinct channel ; interantennal carina raised, its 

 lower half compressed and linear, the upper half hastate, the 

 space on either side of the lower portion smooth and impunctate. 

 Prothorax one-third broader than long, sides nearly parallel, 

 slightly sinuate at the base, obliquely rounded towards the front 

 margin, anterior angles very obtuse, broadly incrassate, hind 

 angles armed with a sharp tooth ; surface smooth and shining, 

 basal depression straight for nearly its whole length, dilated and 

 slightly sinuate at either end, nearly reaching the lateral borders 

 on either side. Elytra oblong, broader than prothorax, distinctly 

 punctate, the punctures on the inner part of the surface indis- 

 tinctly arranged in longitudinal striae. 



Length, 3|-5 mm. 



Punjab : Murree (Stoliezka). Japan : Nagasaki ; Tsu-Shima 

 ,(6r. Lewis). China ; Chusan. 

 Type in the British Museum. 



Baly first described this species from the above places in Japan 

 and China, but when working out Dr. Stoliczka's collection he 

 referred specimens from Murree (Punjab) to this species (Cist. 

 Ent. 1878, p. 376). 



