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with some feeble depressions here and there. Scutellum large, 
triangular, obtuse at apex. Elytra strongly lobed at the sides, 
strongly punctured, the punctures almost regularly placed at base 
and apex. The markings bright blue, the band as well as the 
spots obliquely placed. Legs blue, tibiae and tarsi fuscous. Male 
unknown.” ( Lacordaire .) 
Length 5 mm. 
Hab. India. 
Lacordaire speaks of a finely pubescent head and thorax ; no such 
species of the genus is known to me and it is somewhat doubtful 
whether the insect is a true Aspidolopha. 
250. Aspidolopha interrupto-fasciata, Jac. Ann. Soc. Ent. Bely. 
xxxix, 1895, p. 261. 
Eulvous ; head and scutellum dark blue ; elytra with a humeral 
spot, another behind the middle on the suture, lateral and sutural 
margins dark blue. 
Llead finely and closely punctured and strigose, clothed with 
very short pubescence ; clypeus more 
strongly punctured ; anterior margin nearly 
straight ; labrum fulvous ; antennae not quite 
extending to the base of the thorax, basal 
four joints fulvous, rest fuscous. Thorax 
nearly three times as broad as long, sides 
as well as posterior angles rounded, median 
lobe very broad, truncate, slightly produced ; 
surface very closely and strongly, somewhat 
confluently punctured on the sides, middle 
remotely punctured or with a smooth central 
space. Scutellum broad, pointed, base finely 
pubescent. Elytra closely and strongly 
punctured anteriorly, the punctures some- 
what regularly arranged in rows on the 
posterior portion ; posterior half of suture more or less connected 
with a spot behind the middle, corresponding portion of lateral 
margins and a humeral spot dark blue ; epipleurm produced at the 
sides. Beneath finely pubescent, breast darker. 
Length 3 mm. 
Hab. S. Bombay : Kanara. 
Of short and robust shape, but of small size. Differing from 
its allies in the elytral markings ; these in one specimen have a 
semicrescent blue sutural band joined to the posterior spot, neither 
of the lateral bands extend quite to apex of elytra. 
Fig. 44. 
Aspidolopha interrupto- 
fasciata. 
251. Aspidolopha ceylonica, TVeise, Beut. cnt. Zeit. 1903, p. 25. 
Bufo-testaceous ; breast, a spot at sides of first abdominal seg- 
ment, last segment, posterior femora and pygidium aeneous or 
