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CHRYSOMELIDjE. 
anterior portion jmpunctate, the basal blue band not extending to 
lateral margins and interrupted in the middle by a raised smooth 
space of the ground-colour that terminates in a blunt protuberance, 
the basal portion rather strongly punctured at the sides. Scutel- 
lum broad, metallic blue, longitudinally carinate at apex. Elytra 
rather strongly narrowed in S , basal lobe strongly produced at the 
sides ; surface somewhat closely and strongly punctured, much 
more finely so posterior to the middle, the punctures arranged in 
indistiuct rows at the apex. Body beneath closely covered with 
whitish pubescence. 
Var. The basal elytral spot connected with the humeral one. 
Length 4-6 mm. 
Hah. Burma : Rangoon, Karen Hills, Karennee. 
Can be distinguished by the more or less strongly raised middle 
portion of thorax ; the elytral pattern, however, is similar to that of 
several others of the genus, but there is an extra spot close to the 
humeral spot and the posterior spot is placed behind not at the 
middle. — $ much more robust and larger ; the markings also 
larger. 
249. Aspidolopha trimaculata, Fab. (Clytlira) Ent. Syst. Suppl. 1798, 
p. 110; Lacord. Mon. Phytoph. ii, 1848, p. 252. 
$. Bluish -black ; antennae obscure fulvous; thorax narrowly 
margined with fulvous ; elytra fulvous, shining, a humeral and 
subsutural spot before and a narrow band at the middle that 
consists of two united spots, blue. 
“Short, parallel-sided and moderately convex, finely pubescent on 
the head and thorax ; head short and flat, very finely punctured ; 
clypeus not separated, feebly emarginatein front ; antennae rather 
stout, slightly shorter than the thorax, basal joints pale, the others 
darker. Thorax twice as broad as long, cylindrical, slightly 
narrowed anteriorly, basal and anterior margins straight ; median 
lobe very short ; posterior angles oblique, very finely punctured, 
Fig. 43 . — Aspidolopha thoracica. 
