384 
CHKYSOMELIDjE. 
Oblong, clothed with tine white pubescence. Head very deeply 
punctured, strigose at sides of vertex, an oblong fovea in the 
middle ; antennas slightly extending below the base, the basal two 
joints aeneous, rest black and thickened. Thorax slightly broader 
than long, feebly impressed on the disc and sides ; surface strongly 
transversely strigose except near the anterior margin. Scutellum 
Fig. 134 . — Soelodonta indica. 
with a few punctures. Elytra with a depression below the 
shoulders and at the sides on its anterior third, another short 
depression below the first spot; disc scarcely convex, deeply 
punctate-striate and finely transversely wrinkled ; interstices 
slightly convex anteriorly, costate posteriorly ; each elytron with 
three bluish- black spots, one below base, one larger, subtriangular, 
near the middle and placed nearer the suture, the third spot 
narrow, between the suture and the posterior margin. Beneath 
deeply and closely punctured. 
Length 4| ram. 
Hah. Bengal : Konbir. 
679. Scelodonta areolata, Lefcv. Bull. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxxv, 1891, 
p. cclxvii. 
“ BEneous, subcupreous, sparingly pubescent ; sides of meta- 
thorax densely clothed with white pubescence. 
“ Head remotely punctured, finely granulate if seen under a 
strong lens, faintly impressed between the eyes. Antennae with 
the basal six joints greenish-aeneous, the rest cyaneous. Thorax 
anteriorly rather deeply and irregularly transversely strigose, in 
the middle distinctly punctured, with shining subelevated spaces 
here and there. Scutellum smooth. Elytra rather deeply trans- 
versely depressed below the base, regularly punctured in rows, 
punctures stronger at the sides and in the basal depression ; 
humeral callus smooth. 
“ Length 4^-5 mm. 
“ Hah. Hindustan.” ( Lejevre .) 
