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CHRYSOMELIDJE. 
Thorax half as broad again as long, nearly black, anterior margin 
obscure fulvous ; surface with a very obsolete sulcus, punctured 
like the bead, thickly clothed with yellowish hairs; sides with two 
small teeth. Elytra with similar sculpture, pubescence yellow. 
Length 5 mm. 
Hob. Assam {Coll. Jacoby). 
Genus LYPESTHES. 
Lypesthes, Bah/, Journ. Ent. ii, 1863, p. 152 ; Chapuis, Gen. Coleopt. 
x, 1874, p. 273 ; Left- v. Cat. Emnolp. 1885, p. 74. 
Type, L. ater , Motsch., from Japan. 
Range. India ; China ; Japan. 
Subelougate, subcylindrical ; clothed above and beneath with fine 
suberect hairs. 
Head perpendicular ; antennae slender, filiform, first joint in- 
crassate, second shorter than the third, terminal five slightly 
thicker than the preceding joints except the first ; eyes prominent, 
entire ; apical joint of palpi ovate. Thorax subcylindrical, 
lateral margins obsolete. Elytra broader than the thorax, parallel- 
sided, upper side coarsely punctured. Legs slender, elongate ; 
femora moderately incrassate, toothed ; claws bifid. Prosternum 
and mesosternum oblong. 
729. Lypesthes indica, sp. n. 
Black, finely pubescent ; basal joints of antennae fulvous. 
Oblong, subcylindrical. Head 
finely rugose and pubescent ; cly- 
peus transversely depressed ; labrum 
fulvous ; antennm filiform, basal 
joint short and thick, second more 
slender but nearly as long, following- 
joints elongate, terminal two shorter, 
basal three fulvous, rest black. 
Thorax subcylindrical, not longer 
than broad, sculpture and pubescence 
similar to those on the head. Elytra 
much wider thau the thorax at 
base, extremely closely punctured ; 
the punctures somewhat regularly 
arranged in rows, of transverse 
shape ; the interstices finely trans- 
versely wrinkled at base, slightly 
costate at apex and furnished with 
rows of short grey hairs. Legs 
elongate, femora with a small tooth ; claws bifid. Prosternum 
oblong. 
Length 4| mm. 
Jlab. Burma: Ruby Mines (Coll. Brit. Mus.). 
Fig. 143 . — Lypesthes indica. 
