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constricted in trout and at their base, produced just behind the 
middle into a stout subacute process ; above shiniug, grooved in 
front and on either side at the base, the anterior groove widened 
and angulate in the centre, sloping backwards down the disc 
nearly to its middle ; surface finely and distantly punctured, the 
lateral margins yellow. Scutellum black, its apex notched. Elytra 
slightly depressed along the suture, shoulders prominent, surface 
distinctly punctured, sparingly covered with fulvous hairs ; an 
ovate patch on the shoulders, a broad transverse band across 
the middle, produced slightly along the suture anteriorly and 
posteriorly, and a large subtrigonal patch behind the middle, black. 
Beneath black, abdomen (a large central patch excepted) yellow ; 
the metasternal tubercles at the base with a small black spot. 
Eemora piceous, their apices with several yellow spots. 
Length 10-12 mm. 
Ilab. Northern India. 
173. Colobaspis quinquemaculatus, Baly (Temnaspis), A. M. N. H. 
(0) iii, 1859, p. 206. 
Megalopus 7-punctatus, Hope, Gray's Zool. Miscall. 1859, p. 28. 
Fulvous, pubescent; thorax with one, elytra with two black 
spots each, the pleurae, a spot on the abdomen and on the posterior 
femora, black. 
Elongate, parallel-sided, convex, covered with coarse hairs; head 
coarsely punctured, front excavate. Thorax one-third broader 
than Jong, sides narrowed anteriorly, constricted at the apex and 
extreme base, produced near the latter into an indistinct obtuse 
protuberance; above convex, grooved at the base and apex on 
either side ; surface irregular, shining fulvous, coarsely and sub- 
remotely punctured, central portion gibbous, covered with a large 
Fig. 17. — Colobaspis speciosus. 
