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HALTIClNiE. 



Nilgiri Hills (Andrewes Coll.). Coromandel Coast (Main- 

 dron). Ceylon : Hambantota (T. B, Fletcher). Assam : Sadiya 

 (Ddherty). 



Location of type unknown. 



Haltica polita, Motschulsky. 



Graptodera polita, Motsch., Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. xxiv, 1851, part 1, 

 no. 2, p. 665. 



When Motschulsky visited London in February 1850, he 

 availed himself of the opportunity of seeing the Museum of the 

 East India Company. Among the insects in the collection of that 

 Museum he found several new species; polita was one of them, 

 and he characterised it in a few words in French, of which the 

 following is a translation: "This insect is very near Graptodera 

 lythri, Aube, from which it is distinguished only by its more shining 

 colour and larger form." G. lythri is a European species. As 

 the East Indian Museum collection was mainly composed of Javan 

 species, collected by Dr. Horsfield, it is not certain whether 

 H. polita really occurs in the regions at present under review. 

 Considering the difficulty of comprehending the relationships of 

 the species of Haltica, it is quite possible that polita is a synonym 

 of a previously described species. 



The type cannot be traced. 



Genus PARLINA, Motschulsky. 



Parlina, Motsch., Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. xxxix, 1866, part 1, no. 2, 

 p. 420. 



Genotype, Parlina trancisa, Motsch. 



Small ovate insects (in the genotype the elytra are somewhat 

 tapering at the apex). Head with interantennal and interocular 

 spaces not smooth. Antennae generally as long as the body, their 

 points of insertion being close to each other ; first segment long 

 and club-shaped, second small, third longer than second but 

 shorter than fourth; from the fourth to the last the segments 

 are elongate and almost equal to each other. Prothorax broader 

 than long, and at the base hardly narrower than the base of the 

 elytra ; in front of, but close to, the basal margin of the pronotum 

 there is a deep transverse impression which, according to Mot- 

 schulsky, is terminated on either side by a short longitudinal 

 impression, but actually it is not distinctly so, or at any rate this 

 feature is variable. This last character is found also in Crepido- 

 dera, from which the present genus differs in having the elytral 

 surface finely and confusedly punctate. Scutellum small, triangular, 

 with apex rounded and surface impunctate. Elytra completely 

 and confusedly covered with a mixture of very fine and coarser 

 punctures, the latter being distributed at the sides, where two or 

 three short rows may be recognised, with their interstices slightly 



