COLEOPTERA. 
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PIIYTOPHAGA. 
By JOSEPH S. BALY, E.L.S. 
The Phytophagous Coleoptera collected by Dr. Stoliczka, although few in number, and 
containing no striking novelties, are extremely interesting in relation to geographical distribu- 
tion. The 25 species contained in the collection belong to no less than 21 genera, out of 
which Nodostorna, Enneamera, Charcea, Macrima, Mimastra, Merista, and Leptorthra (one- 
third of the whole) are exclusively Asiatic ; Faria has its metropolis in America, hut is spar- 
ingly represented in Japan, China, and Eastern Siberia; Luperodes is largely spread through- 
out the Asiatic continent, and is also found (according to v. Harold, whose accuracy cannot 
he doubted) in South America and Abyssinia; of the twelve others, five are cosmopolitan, 
and the rest occur abundantly in Europe. Out of the 25 species, one only, Elagiodera versico- 
lora , Laich. ( armoracice , Auct.), is found in Europe ; seven, Lema coromandeliana , Clytra 
palliata, Enneamera variabilis, Galleruca indica , Gallerucella placida , Merista interrupia , 
and Leptarthra collaris, occur in various parts of British India ; two, M altica ccerulescens and 
E. viridicyanea, have been described by myself from Japan ; and one Clirysomela angelica , 
Reiche, is not uncommon in Syria ; the fourteen others have not as yet been found in any 
other locality, and seventeen species are described for the first time in the present paper. 
1. — Lema. coromandeliana, Eabr., var. prjeusta. 
Crioceris praiusta, Fabr., Ent. Syst. i, 2, p. 8 ; Lema prceusta, Lac., Mon. Phyt. i, p. 340. 
Mab. — Jhelara Valley. A single specimen. 
2. — Clytra palliata. 
Clythra palliata , Fabr., Syst. El. ii, p. 30. 
Mab. — Jhelam Valley ; also various parts of India. 
3. — COPTOCEPHALA DUBIA. 
Baly, Cyst. Ent. ii. 1875—82, p. 370. 
Subelongata, subcylindrica, nitida, subtus nigra , argenteo sericea, prothorace pedibnsque 
fulvis; supra fulva, capitis verticenigro ; thorace Icevi ; scutello piceo ; elytris tenuiter punc- 
tatis, fascia communi baseos, extrorsum abbreviata, alteraque vix pone medium nigris. 
Long. 2iy lin. 
Vertex black, impunctate, lower face fulvous, a ray of the same colour extending upwards 
on the vertex ; front deeply excavated between the eyes, irregularly punctured ; anterior 
