MESOCOLASriS. 
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turation extremely close, interstices very finely wrinkled and 
sparingly pubescent. 
Length 4-44 mm. 
Hah. Bengal : Mandar, Konbir. 
A dark and sombre-looking species which may be known by the 
fine reticulations of the thorax and elytra ; the thorax is less 
elongate and widened at the middle than in. E. longicollis, Baly, 
and the anterior margin of its episternum is concave. 
Genus MESOCOLASPIS, nov. 
Oblong-ovate, finely pubescent. Head without sulci or grooves; 
antennae short, with dilated terminal joints. Thorax slightly 
broader than long, with distinct serrate lateral margins, surface 
with short hairs. Elytra wider at base than the thorax, punctate- 
striate, with rows of hairs. Legs robust ; femora thickened, with 
tooth beneath ; tibiae entire; tarsi short; claws bifid. Prosternum 
broad, widened posteriorly; anterior margin of thoracic episternum 
concave. 
The species are similar in shape to the species of Pseiulocolaspis, 
but have distinct and serrate lateral margins to the thorax ; 
the prosternum is less broad generally, more narrowed in front. 
The genus somewhat resembles the African genus Cheiriddla , 
Jac., but differs in the short and thickened terminal joints of the 
antennae. This genus is proposed for a species that was previously 
placed in the genus Apolepis , Baly, from the species of which it 
differs however in the concave thoracic episternum. 
768. Mesocolaspis indica, Jac. (Apolepis), Ann.Soc.Ent. Bely, xlviii, 
1904, p. 385. 
Eulvous, above pubescent; antennae and legs flavous ; elytra 
with sutural triangular patch, a lateral stripe and two spots 
obscure fuscous. 
Upper surface furnished with short curved silvery hairs. Head 
closely rugose, fulvous ; clypeus separated at the sides by narrow 
grooves; palpi flavous; antennae short, flavous, terminal five 
joints strongly thickened, second longer and more slender than 
the basal joint. Thorax fulvous, subquadrate, sculptured like the 
head, with finely serrate lateral margins. Elytra flavous, very 
closely and strongly punctured, with raised interstices at base and 
sides, pubescence arranged in rows ; a posteriorly pointed fuscous 
patch across the suture at base nearly extending to the middle, a 
fuscous stripe close to lateral margins not extending to apex, and 
two fuscous spots on the disc, one at, the other behind the middle. 
Prosternum strongly punctured. 
Length 2 mm. 
/lab. Nilgiris (Colls. II. E. Andreives <$f Jacoby). 
