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CHRYSOMELID2E. 
Head impunctate, feebly transversely grooved between eyes; 
elypens rather strongly semi- 
circularly emarginate at apex, 
extreme margin black as are also 
the labrum and apex of man- 
dibles ; antennae extended to 
base of thorax, fourth and 
following joints very moder- 
ately transversely widened. 
Thorax twice as broad as long, 
lateral margins nearly straight, 
posterior angles distinct, pos- 
terior margin sinuate at sides, 
median lobe feeble, straight, 
surface entirely impunctate. 
Scutellum triangular. Elytra 
subcylindrical, parallel - sided, 
opaque, very finely punctured in indistinct rows, nearly obsolete 
posteriorly, the black sj)ot placed near the suture and apex. 
Anterior legs elongate with elongate tarsi, first joint of latter 
longer than second. Breast and abdomen very finely pubescent. 
Length 4^ mm. 
Hah. India : Chupra (Coll. Jacoby). 
In the female the legs are, as usual, shorter and of equal length. 
The elytra show occasionally another very small obsolete spot 
below the base. 
Fig. 21 . — Miopristis bimaculata. 
Genus iETHEODACTYLA. 
/Etheodactyla, Lacord. Mon. PhytopJi. ii, 1848, p. 188 ; Chapuis, Gen. 
Coleopt. x, 1874, p. 130. 
Type, JE. lateralis , Lacord., from India. 
Range. India. 
Oblong, glabrous above ; head short and ovate; eyes very large, 
elongate, nearly entire ; mandibles short. Thorax subcylindrical, 
narrowed in front, sides straight, posterior angles obtuse, feebly 
lobed in the middle. Scutellum very large. Legs rather long and 
robust, anterior legs distinctly longer than the others ; first joint of 
tarsi as long as the following two united, first joint of second pair 
of tarsi very large and convex, that of the posterior legs less so. 
Erected for an insect that has most of the structural characters 
that belong to the genus Clytra. The first joint of the tarsus 
of the intermediate legs is, however, different in both sexes in 
Mtheodactyla. 
179. iEtheodactyla lateralis, Lacord. Mon. Phytoph. ii, 1848, p. 189. 
Keddish-fulvous ; breast, abdomen and legs black. Elytra with 
a large triangular black patch at lateral margins near apex. 
Head nearly smooth, depressed between the eyes ; antennae 
