EPIMELA. 
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elytra rufous ; a humeral spot, another before the middle, a 
dentate broad band behind the latter and an apical spot, blue. 
$ . Short, parallel-sided ; head nearly smooth, finely pubescent, 
feebly and broadly depressed at vertex ; clypeus detlexed, feebly 
triangularly emarginate ; eyes large, elongate and emarginate ; 
antennae brownish, slightly longer than thorax, the bases rufous, 
the joints obsoletely dentate. Thorax more than twice as broad 
as long, convex, straight at sides, posterior angles rounded, 
impunctate with some shallow depressions ; median lobe broad but 
short and truncate. Scutellum large, finely rugose, carinate 
throughout its length. Elytra finely and irregularly somewhat 
continently punctured. Legs pale, the femora and tarsi more or 
less dark, rather long ; apical abdominal segment with a small 
fovea. 
Length 5 mm. 
Bab. Kashmir. 
256. Epimela viridicollis (PI. I, fig. 9), Jac. (Pantocometis) The 
Entomologist, xxxii, 1899, p. 69. 
Metallic green ; labrum, basal joints of antennae and legs fulvous ; 
elytra fulvous, a spot on shoulders, another before middle and a 
transverse band behind the latter, dark blue. 
c? . Head very finely longitudinally striate on the vertex, finely 
rugose and pubescent between the eyes ; antennae black, extending 
to base of elytra, basal four joints fulvous, second and third 
joints small, following joints strongly transverse. Thorax twice 
as broad as long, sides straight anteriorly, strongly rounded at 
base as well as at posterior angles ; surface obsoletely transversely 
depressed anteriorly and obliquely depressed near posterior angles, 
very minutely punctured and pubescent. Scutellum raised, finely 
pubescent, apex truncate. Elytra strongly and closely punctured, 
a round spot before middle near suture aud two spots more or less 
connected behind the middle dark blue. Legs robust, fulvous. 
Body beneath closely covered with silvery pubescence. 
2 . Larger, elytra much more finely punctured, spots larger, an 
additional spot on the shoulders. 
Length 6 mm. 
Bab. Khasi Hills. 
257. Epimela indica, Duviv. (Lachnea) Bull. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxxv, 
1891, p. xxviii. 
Metallic dark blue ; pubescent above and beneath ; basal joints 
of antemue and labrum fulvous; elytra fulvous with a narrow 
transverse band behind the middle. 
Bather elongate and parallel-sided; head broad and elongate, 
rugose, clothed with dense pubescence between the eyes, the latter 
feebly notched ; antennae black, scarcely extending to base of 
tol. i. 
