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CHEYSOMELIDJE. 
slightly angulate in the middle ; surface deeply but not very closely 
punctured, covered with coarse erect hairs. Scutellum triangular, 
its apex emarginate, sparsely punctured, shining black, edge 
fulvous. Elytra broader than the thorax, apex rounded, dehiscent 
at the suture, above convex, deeply punctured, covered with 
long subdepressed hairs; shining, a narrow semil unate apical 
patch rufo-fulvous. Beneath: shining rufo-fulvous, pleurae nigro- 
piceous ; legs (the posterior femora excepted) pale yellow ; hinder 
femora strongly incrassate, ovate, armed near the apex beneath 
with two acute spines. 
Length 8 mm. 
Hah. Nepal. 
171. Colobaspis insignis, Baly (Temnaspis), A. M. N. H. (3) iii, 1859, 
p. 208. 
Eulvous, villose ; the anterior and intermediate tarsi piceous ; 
elytra purplish-black, a narrow semilunate patch at their apices 
rufo-fulvous. 
Elongate, parallel-sided, shining fulvous, pubescent; head deeply 
punctured, sparsely so on the face, front impressed with a deep 
fovea ; antennae more robust than in C. nigriceps. Thorax sub- 
cylindrical, sides constricted in front and at the base, produced 
near the latter into an obtuse tubercle, above shining, grooved at 
the apex and at the extreme base, anterior groove dilated and 
angulate at the middle ; surface deeply but not closely punctured, 
sparingly covered with erect hairs. Elytra longer than in 
(J. nigriceps, broader than the thorax, above convex, less deeply 
and closely punctured than in the last species, covered with 
long subdepressed hairs, apical margin rufo-fulvous. Posterior 
femora as in the preceding species. 
Length 10 mm. 
Hah. Northern India. 
Longer and narrower than the preceding insect. 
172. Colobaspis speciosus, Baly (Temnaspis), A. M. N. If. (3) iii, 
1859, p. 201. 
Black, sparingly pubescent ; base and apex of abdomen, the 
metasternal tubercles, sides of thorax and the elytra, flavous; a spot 
on the shoulders, another near apex and a band at middle, black. 
8 . Posterior femora strongly incrassate, bispinose. 
$ . Posterior femora scarcely thickened, armed with one spine ; 
abdomen flavous with central black patch. 
Elongate, parallel-sided, subdepressed along the suture, shining 
black, sparingly covered with short hairs, the pubescence on the 
under surface longer and more distinct. Head shining, sparsely 
punctured on the vertex, transversely grooved between the eyes, 
anterior margin of clypeus fulvous, edge of labrum clothed with 
fulvous hairs ; antennae black, rather longer than the head and 
thorax. Thorax scarcely broader than long, subcylindrical, sides 
