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CHRYSOMELIDiE. 
or spots within depression and a broad transverse band, consisting 
of united elongate spots, at middle, another elongate spot near 
apex. Legs flavous, knees black. 
Fig. 114. — Xodostctta clongata (var.). 
Var. Thorax obscure dark fulvous with an irregular piceous 
transverse band; elytra flavous, with two piceous spots at base and 
two behind the middle. 
Length 4 mm. 
Hak. Ts ilgiris. 
Genus AUTOLAMPRA, n. nom. 
Nephus, Jacoby , Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, xxvii, 1889, p. 165. 
Body oblong; antennae filiform. Thorax transverse, sides 
rounded. Elytra closely and somewhat regularly punctured. 
Posterior tibiae emarginate near apex : claws appeudiculate. Pro- 
sternum broad, slightly longer than broad. Anterior margin of 
thoracic episternum concave. 
6 (?)• Posterior femora ciliate beneath, furnished with a long 
and broad appendage. 
Pounded on a single species, possessing most of the characters 
of Nodostoma , but the posterior tibiae emarginate only, and the 
emargination placed on the inner, not on the outer, side ; the 
posterior femora with a curious appendage, probably only a male 
character. The generic name Nephus having already been used 
in Coleoptera, I now change it as above. 
516. Autolampra femorata, Jac.. (Nephus) Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, 
xxvii, 1889, p. 166. 
Beneath piceous ; sides of breast and femora metallic green ; 
antennae black, basal joints fulvous ; head and thorax cupreous ; 
elytra metallic dark blue. 
