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CHRYSOMELIDJE. 
Length 5-6 mm. 
Hob. Kanara ; Nilgiris ; Travancore ; Ceylon. 
The type of this species, a single specimen, was originally 
described from Ceylon. On account of the partly covered pygidium, 
the varieties from different parts of India were redescribed by me 
as Gynandrophthalma , in which genus I now consider the insect 
cannot be placed as it has pronounced epipleural elytral lobes. 
In the Belgian ‘ Annals ’ I have pointed out at length the 
differences between this and allied forms. Of these, TJ. dejeani, 
Lacord., is perhaps more nearly allied to the typical form than 
the others, but may be at once distinguished from it by the strong 
elytral puncturation, banded thorax and differently coloured legs. 
D. quadripunctata is a smaller species with the sides of the thorax 
scarcel} r rounded, the latter are also less strongly transverse. 
288. Diapromorpha dejeani, Lacorcl. Mon. Phytoph. ii, 1848, p. 235 
Baly, Trans. Ent. Soc. (3) iv, 1865, p. 49. 
Black ; above fuscous ; thorax with two angulate spots ( 3 ) or 
with a transverse sinuate black band near base ( $ ) ; elytra with a 
short transverse black band at shoulders and another longer one 
near apex. 
3 . Short, oblong and subcylindrieal. Head shining, black, 
closely pubescent between the eyes, this portion depressed ; vertex 
and clypeus convex ; antennae nearly ex- 
tending to base of thorax, basal four joints 
llavous, rest nearly black, fifth and following 
joints strongly transversely widened. Thorax 
about half as broad as long, widened at 
middle, sides feebly rounded ; surface im- 
punctate, with a subquadrate and angulate 
spot each side near base, its inner edge 
deeply concave. Scutellum small and narrow. 
Elytra very strongly and closely punctured, 
the punctures placed in very irregular rows, 
very fine at apex ; first band short, widest 
at shoulders, second larger, deeply constricted 
at middle and irregular in outline, neither band extending to the 
lateral or sutural margins. Underside densely pubescent. 
2 ■ Thorax strongly transverse, twice as broad as long, with a 
strongly transverse black band, deeply sinuate on the anterior 
margin at each end, widened in the middle ; elytral puncturation 
rather less strong and regular than in male. 
Length 5-6| mm. 
Hab . Nepaf; Sikhim ; Coromandel ; recorded also from the 
Malay Islands. 
Lacordaire evidently did not know the male of this species, which 
varies in the shape and markings of the thorax as pointed out above ; 
the puncturation of the elytra in both sexes is strong. 
Fig. 61. 
Diapromorpha dejeani 
