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CHBYSOMELIDJE. 
Body beneath clothed with dense yellow pubescence. Tarsi broad 
and robust, first joint twice as long as second. 
Length mm. 
Hcib. Southern Bombay : Madura. Type in Coll. H. E. 
Andrewes. 
In coloration similar to Gynandrophthalmci fabrei, Lefev., 
but the entire disc of the elytra is black, the antennae and legs 
are differently coloured, and the thorax is finely granulate and 
punctured. 
Genus ASPIDOLOPHA. 
Aspidolopha, Lcicord. Mon. Phytoph. ii, 1848, p. 252 ; Chapuis , Gen. 
Coleopt. x, 1874, p. 122. 
Type, A. trimaculata, Fabr., from India. 
Range. India and Malayan Islands. 
Body short and robust, more or less narrowed posteriorly. 
Head generally with a band of pubescence in front of the eyes. 
Thorax short, strongly transverse and narrowed in front. 
Scutellum large, often carinate at apex. Elytra with very 
strongly produced epipleural lobes, not covering the pygidium. 
Abdomen often greatly inflated, protruding beyond the elytra at 
the sides. Legs feeble, first joint of tarsi slightly longer than the 
second. 
Of somewhat peculiar short and compact shape, distinguished 
by the short and anteriorly narrowed thorax, the strong epipleural 
lobes of the elytra, carinate scutellum, and free pygidium. 
239. Aspidolopha cserulea, Jac. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, xxxii, 1892, 
p. 882. 
Head, breast, apex of tibiae and the tarsi black ; thorax flavous 
with central black band ; elytra metallic dark blue ; beneath 
fulvous ; pygidium fuscous in the middle. 
Head smooth, impunctate, with three small foveae placed tri- 
angularly ; labrum black ; antennae extending to the base of the 
thorax, basal three joints flavous. Thorax transverse, very short, 
more than twice as broad as long, sides rounded, narrowed in 
front, posterior margin only slightly produced in the middle ; 
surface entirely impunctate, flavous at the sides ; middle area with 
a longitudinal medially widened black band. Scutellum large, 
smooth. Elytra fulvous, with a triangular large central fuscous 
band, moderately convex, puneturation scarcely perceptible, basal 
lobe slightly produced, pygidium not covered. Abdominal seg- 
ments with or without fuscous spots on the sides and middle. 
Length 4 mm. 
Hah. Burma : Karennee. 
