ASPIDOLOPHA. 
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Hah. Sikhim : Mungphu. 
Distinguished b) r the rugose and feebly costate elytra, the 
strongly punctured thorax and its blue band ; the elytral band is 
slightly narrowed at the sides and extends sometimes entirely 
across the disc to the margins. 
247. Aspidoloplia distincta, Buviv. Bull. Soc. Ent . Belg. xxxv, 1891, 
p. xxxii. 
Dark blue ; antennae black, the base testaceous ; thorax partly 
fulvous or blue ; elytra fulvous, a humeral spot, a larger spot 
at middle and another subsutural spot 
near apex, blue ; tibiae more or less 
testaceous. 
This species is so closely allied to 
A. rugosa , that it is only necessary to 
point out the differences. The thorax is 
less closely punctured and the punctures 
are larger and deeper, the depressions at 
the base are much more feeble ; the elytral 
pnncturation is much coarser and the 
punctures are placed in extremely closely 
approximate rows, the interstices are 
wrinkled here and there, but not trans- 
versely rugose, the markings are lighter 
blue in colour and instead of a trans- 
verse band there is a large spot. In other respects the two 
insects are similar. In the type the thorax is described as blue, 
but the following varieties also have been mentioned : — 
Yar. a. Thorax fulvous, with transverse blue basal bands. 
Yar. h. Like var. a, but without apical elytral spot. 
Yar. c. Elytra without discoidal and apical spots. 
Var. d. Elytra with a discoidal spot only. 
Length 4|-6 mm. 
Hah. India : Konbir ; Burma : Tharrawaddy. 
FH 42. 
Aspidolopha distincta. 
248. Aspidoloplia thoracica, Jac.Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, xxxii, 1892, 
p. 879. 
Dark blue beneath, above fulvous ; thorax with a narrow 
transverse blue band at base ; elytra with a dark blue humeral 
spot, another near base and a third behind the middle ; tibiae 
fulvous. 
Posteriorly narrow in shape ; head impunctate, a band of pale 
fulvous pubescence in front of eyes; clypeus finely punctured; 
labrum piceous ; antennae fuscous, scarcely extending to base of 
thorax, basal four joints fulvous, fourth and following joints 
serrate. Thorax narrowed in front, median lobe broadly rounded, 
