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CHRYSOM ELIDJLt 
and sometimes confluent, interstices reticulate, a smooth more or 
less distinct tubercle near the middle of the 
sides. Scutellum greenish, pubescent at 
base, very broad, apex carinate. Elytra nar- 
row, parallel, strongly and rather closely 
punctured in very irregular rows,. basal 
lobe at shoulders strongly produced, disc 
flavous, sides from below base to behind 
the middle and the suture narrowly 
piceous, shoulders with a small greenish 
spot. Body beneath closely pubescent. 
First joint of the tarsi not much longer 
than the second joint. 
Length 4 mm. 
Hah. Nilgiris. 
This little species at first sight seems scarcely to belong to the 
genus, on account of its elongate narrow shape and the general 
shape of the thorax ; on the other hand, the strongly lobed elytral 
epipleurse, free pygidium and carinate scutellum agree with 
Aspicloloplia , of which it may be considered a somewhat aberrant 
form. 
Fig. 40. 
Aspidolopha ceneicollis. 
246. Aspidolopha rugosa, Jac. Entomologist Suppl. 1891, p. 32. 
Metallic dark blue; basal joints of antennse, tibiae and tarsi 
fulvous ; thorax fulvous with a transverse blue band at base ; 
elytra fulvous, a humeral spot, another at apex, and a transverse 
band at middle dark blue. 
Head finely rugose; eyes elongate, the intermediate space with 
a band of fulvous pubescence at each side ; antennse fuscous, 
extending to base of thorax, basal four 
joints flavous. Thorax transverse, sides 
slightly rounded, narrowed in front, surface 
obsoletely depressed on each side in front 
of scutellum, rugosely punctured through- 
out, anterior portion fulvous, base with a 
transverse blue band that has its anterior 
edge irregularly dentate and is partly divided 
in the middle, sides obliquely shaped. 
Scutellum broad, dark blue, pubescent, its 
apex carinate. Elytra strongly lobed 
laterally, closely and strongly punctured, 
interspaces transversely rugose and wrink- 
led, with traces of longitudinal costae at 
apex, the band at middle extending nearly 
to either margin, the apical spot close to suture. Underside 
thickly clothed with yellow pubescence. 
Length 6 mm. 
Fig. 41. 
Aspidolopha rugosa. 
