420 
CHRl'SOMELIDvE. 
Head closely rugose-punctate, entirely clothed with yellowish 
scales; clypeus strongly transverse, closely punctured; labruui 
and palpi pale fulvous ; an ten use about two-thirds the length of 
the body, third and fourth joints very elongate and equal, terminal 
joints rather shorter. Thorax about half as broad again as 
long (?), sides rounded and widened at the middle, anterior 
portion slightly narrowed, lateral margins absent, surface sculp- 
tured and furnished with scales like the head, two obscure darkish 
bands at the middle. Scutellum clothed with whitish hairs. 
Elytra much wider at base than the thorax, extremely closely 
punctate-striate, punctures rather deep ; the interstices forming- 
very narrow, slightly convex lines, covered with scales and fur- 
nished with short erect darker hairs. Anterior and posterior 
femora strongly toothed. 
Length 4.4-5 mm. 
I fab. Bengal : Mandar. 
In the original description the thorax is given as half as long 
again as broad, but the reverse is the case in the specimen I 
received from Duvivier and named by him. 
740. Hyperaxis semifasciata. Jac. (Demotina) P. Z. S. 1887, p. 70, 
pi. x, fig. 1. 
Obscure fulvous or piceous ; antennae and legs dark fulvous ; 
scutellum white ; elytra with obscure darkish band and four or 
five white spots behind the middle, a small white spot at base. 
Head with yellowish pubescence on the 
vertex, hiding any sculpture ; clypeus closely 
punctui’ed, glabrous, fulvous ; eyes entire ; 
antennae filiform, third and fourth joints 
slender, nearly equal, terminal joints 
slightly thickened. Thorax scarcely twice 
as broad as long, lateral margins indicated 
at base only, sides rounded, very slightly 
narrowed in front, anterior angles denti- 
form ; surface convex, closely covered with 
yellowish slightly curved scales or scale- 
like hairs, flanks beneath densely covered 
with white pubescence ; a very slender, 
medial, longitudinal white stripe on the 
disc. Elytra strongly and for the most part 
irregularly punctured, pubescent like the 
thorax ; a small white pubescent spot at the 
middle of the basal margin, three spots 
transversely across the middle and two 
behind the middle, one near margin, the 
other near suture. All femora strongly dentate ; intermediate 
tibiae emarginate at base. 
Length 4-6 mm. 
Hab. Ceylon. 
