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thorax, basal three joints fulvous. Thorax about two and a half 
times broader tbau long, rather convex, sides straight, posterior 
angles rounded ; surface transversely depressed near anterior 
margin with two small tubercles at the middle (more distinct in 
the male), finely punctured at the sides, clothed with dense grey 
Fig. 48 . — Epimela indica, g . 
pubescence in fresh specimens. Scutellum elongately subtri- 
angular, pubescent. Elytra rather distinctly lobed at the sides 
below the shoulders, strongly punctured in longitudinal rows, the 
interstices finely transversely wrinkled, clothed with short silvery 
pubescence. Pygidium finely rugose. Tarsi broad and robust. 
The following varieties have been enumerated by Duvivier : — 
Var. a. Head and thorax more or less black or greenish-black. 
Yar. b. Anterior margin of thorax fulvous. 
Var. c. The elytral bands reduced to one or two spots, var. 
interrupta , Duviv. 
Var. d. Elytra entirely fulvous, var. uniformis, Duviv. 
Length 6|-9 mm. 
Hob. India : Konbir-Nowatali, Tetara. 
This species on account of the pubescent upper surface, 
produced lateral elytral epipleurse and free pygidium, must be 
placed in Epimela. In Pantocometis the pubescence is long and 
of a different kind. 
258. Epimela insularis, Weise, Dent. ent. Zeit. 1903, p. 26. 
Blackish-blue, closely pubescent, the pubescence silvery; antennse 
black, basal joints, tibiae and tarsi ferruginous ; elytra dark fulvous, 
two spots before and a band behind the middle blue. 
Rather smaller than E. ornata, Redtb., and clothed with silvery 
not grey pubescence, the elytra darker red, much more strongly 
and distinctly punctured. Head rugose, not strigose ; labrum 
pic-eous, anterior edge reddish ; basal four joints of the antennae 
reddish, first and fourth joints sometimes stained with piceous, the 
