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HALTICIKX. 



344. Haltica viridicyanea, Bah/. 



Haltica viridicyanea, Baly, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. ]874, p. 191;. 

 id., Cist. Ent. ii. 1878, p. 376. 



Body ovate, convex. Colour above shining greenish-blue ; 

 underside blue-black ; antenna? black. 



Head: surface of lower half of face, on either side of the 

 narrow, distinctly raised carina, irregularly wrinkled ; frontal 

 tubercles triangular, contiguous. Prothorax scarcely twice as 

 broad as long, sides at the base nearly straight and parallel, in 

 their anterior half obliquely converging and distinctly sinuate, 

 anterior angles slightly produced, obtuse ; surface convex, dis- 

 tinctly impressed with some minute punctures, basal impression 

 distinctly bisinuate, terminating on either side at some distance 

 from the lateral border. Elytra oblong, convex, finely punctate ; 

 interspaces finely granulose. 



Length, 3| mm. 



Punjab : Sind Valley (StoliczJca). Japan : Nagasaki (type- 

 locality ; G. Lewis). 



Type in the British Museum. 



When working out Dr. Sroliczka's collection Bal} r referred 

 specimens from Sind Valley to this species (Cist. Ent. 1878, 

 p. 376). 



345. Haltica cyanea, Weber. 



Haltica cyanea, Web., Obs. Entoru. i, 1801, p. 57; Duvivier, Ann. 



Soc. Ent. Belg. xxxvi, 1892, p. 429; Jacoby, Ann. Mus. Civ. 



Genova, xxvii, p. 191. 

 Haltica bii'manensis, Jacoby, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xl, 1896, p. 254. 



Dark blue ; antennas black, basal segments brownish at the 

 apex ; scutellum nearly black. 



Head with vertex im punctate, frontal tubercles strongly raised, 

 triangular, iuterantennal carina rather broad. Antennas extending 

 to a little distance beyond the middle of the elytra; third segment 

 double the length of the second but shorter than the fourth. 

 Protlwraoc much broader than long, lateral margins slightly 

 rounded ; surface impunctate, the basal transverse furrow sinuate 

 and placed at some distance from the basal margin. Scutellum 

 broad, impunctate. Elytra closely and strongly punctate, more 

 finelv on the apical part; the punctures tend to form rows. 



Length, 5 mm. 



Bombay : Belgaum ; Kanara. Punjab : Chamba. Buema : 

 Shwegoo ; Katha; Senmigion : Btiamo ; Euby Mines (Doherty) ; 

 Karen Mrs. (Fea). Tenasserim : Thagata (Fea ). jAA r A. Sumatra. 



Type probably in the Copenhagen Museum. 



Jacoby described Hcdtica birmanensis as a distinct species, 

 although he found the asdeagus of H. cyanea to be identical in 

 structure with that of birmanensis, He relied on the apparently 

 slightly greater length of the antennse, the somewhat less closely 



