DIAPROMORPIIA. 
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A single male specimen in Mr. Andrewes’ collection is of entirely 
dark fulvous colour above but varies in no other way from the 
type, the last abdominal segment in that specimen is entire ; the 
obscure colour of the elytra seems to point to discoloration. 
287. Diapromorpha quadripunctata, Jac.P.Z.S. 1887, p. 68; Weise, 
Deut. ent. Zeit. 1900, p. 24. 
Gynandrophthalma lacordairei, Jac. Ann. Soc. Ent. Beta. xxxix, 
1895, p. 261. 
Fulvous ; terminal joints of antenme blackish ; elytra with four 
black spots (2 . 2) or two transverse bands or with the posterior 
portion entirely black. 
Head with shallow, transverse groove between the eyes; vertex 
convex, impunctate, intraocular space finely rugose, obsoletely 
Fig. 60. Diapromorpha quadripunctata p rofir i Pr than Inner sidps 
straight, latter feebly lobed at base ; surface with a rather deep 
transverse depression near posterior angles, microscopically 
punctured. Scutellum broad, apex rather pointed. Elytra 
distinctly lobed at sides, with very feeble transverse depression 
before the middle, crowded with small punctures ; pygidium either 
covered by elytra or partly free. Legs rather short, tarsi of nearly 
equal length, short. 
Var. a. Above entirely fulvous, beneath and the legs black or 
fulvous : nalandensis , Weise. 
Var. b. Elytra with a narrow black margin from behind the 
middle to apex, beneath fulvous. 
Var. c. Elytra each with only two black spots, either the 
anterior or the posterior two. 
Var. d. Elytra each with three spots (1.2.4), spot 3 absent. 
Var. e. Head, thorax and underside black, elytra with four spots : 
dambidlensis, Wise. 
Var./. Fulvous, posterior portion of elytra more or less black. 
Section II. 
Species of snudler size (4-7 mm.). 
depressed at the sides ; cly- 
peus finely longitudinally 
strigose, anterior edge sub- 
triangularly emarginate ; eyes 
large, oblique, slightly 
notched ; antennae not ex- 
tending to base of thorax, 
black, basal four joints 
fulvous, second and third 
short, fourth and following 
joints transverse. Thorax 
about two and a half times 
