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latter joint slightly narrower than the fifth. Thorax more than 
twice as broad as long, the sides rounded, finely and closely 
punctured, with the usual feeble impressions, the margins darker 
red. Scutellum pubescent and punctured. Elytra twice as 
strongly punctured as in E. ornata, the basal portion more 
elosety and irregularly so, the rest more sparsely also in irregular 
rows, interstices smooth ; the first blue spot on the shoulders small 
and round, sometimes only indicated, the second near the suture 
at about one-third the length of the elytra, larger, transverse ; the 
transverse band straight, widened gradually towards the suture, 
not quite extended to either margin. 
Length 6 mm. 
Hob. Ceylon : Anuradhapura. 
259. Epimela dilutipes, sp. n. 
Obscure dark blue ; head and thorax pubescent ; elytra fulvous 
with four dark blue spots placed transversely. 
Head entirely clothed with short grey pubescence ; labrum fulvous ; 
eyes subquadrately emarginate ; antennae black, not extending to 
base of thorax, basal four joints fulvous, third joint extremely 
small, the rest strongly transverse. Thorax twice as broad as 
long, of equal width, sides rounded, surface pubescent like that of 
the head, with two small tubercles near the anterior margin. 
Scutellum rather pointed and elongate, pubescent. Elytra very 
strongly punctured in irregular rows, interstices rugose, partly 
costate near suture, each elytron with two blue spots before and 
two behind the middle ; of the former two one is placed on the 
shoulders and one near the suture, the latter two are transverse. 
Tibiae fulvous, stained with fuscous ; femora bluish, all densely 
pubescent like the underside. 
Length 5 mm. 
Hah. Southern India : Madura. Type in Coll. H. E. Andrewes. 
Separated from E. insularis , Weise, by the entirely pubescent 
head which obscures the sculpture, and by the elytral markings 
and the arrangement of the punctures in rows. 
Genus PANTOCOMETIS. 
Pantocometis, Lacord. Mon. Phytoph. ii, 1848, p. 366 ; Chapuis , 
Gen. Coleopt. x, 1874, p. 129. 
Type, P. hirsuta , Lacord., from India. 
Range. India; Ceylon. 
5 . Oblong ; entirely clothed with long pubescence. Head 
short ; eyes rather large ; antennae robust, second and third joints 
subconical, very short, equal, following joints serrate, obliquely 
trigonal. Thorax very short, subcylindrical, sides straight, 
posterior angles rounded. Scutellum rather large. Elvtra feebly 
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