COLEOPTERA. 
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loqtie basi piceis; thorace transverso, lateribus ante basin dente subacuto armatis, ante dentem 
concapis, ante medium ampliatis, disco rude rugoso, bifoveolalo ; elytris profunde conf use punc- 
tatis, interspatiis granulosis. 
Long. 2 lin. 
Vertex and front finely rugose-punctate, clothed with appressed griseous hairs, the mid- 
dle with a large ill-defined piceous patch ; encarpse thickened, contiguous, pyriform ; antenna; 
moderately robust, filiform, the second joint nearly equal in length to the first, about two- 
thirds the length of the third. Thorax more than half as broad again as long ; sides diverging 
at the base, and armed at the apex of the diverging portion with a subacute, setiferous tooth, 
immediately in front of which, before the middle, they are deeply sinuate, in front they are 
broadly dilated, the anterior angle armed with a subacute tooth ; disc coarsely rugose-punctate 
broadly excavated on either side, and again more deeply, but to a less extent, on the anterior 
half of the middle disc ; the piceous patches, placed transversely on the disc, are large but ill- 
defined, and cover nearly the whole of the surface. Scutellum narrowed from its base towards 
the apex, the latter obtusely truncate. Elytra oblong, nearly parallel, deeply and coarsely 
punctured, densely clothed with short suberect griseous hairs. 
Sab. — Jhelam Valley, one specimen; I also possess this insect from India. 
24 — Merista interrupta. 
Galleruca interrupta, L. Redtb. in Hugel’s Kaschmir, iv, p. 553, tab. xxvii, fig. 4 (1844). 
Sab. — Murree, a single specimen. 
The transverse black patch differs greatly in extent in different individuals, in some 
being entirely obsolete ; in the specimen before me it is reduced to two small fuscous points 
placed transversely on the middle disc. 
In this species, of which I possess many specimens from various parts of India the 
second and third joints of the antennae vary in relative length in the sexes : in the j these 
joints are very short and nearly equal ; in the 9 the third joint, though short, is distinctly 
longer than the second. 
25. — Leptaktha coelaris. 
Baly, Cist. Ent. ii, 1875—82, p. 382. 
Ovata, postice ampliata, nigra, nitida ; thorace transverso, fulvo ; elytra fortiter sat 
crebre punctatis, castaneis, punctis piceis, utrisque macula basali juxta suturam nigro-aened 
notatis. 
Long. 44 — 5 lin. 
Vertex shining, impunctate ; encarpae thickened, contiguous, semilunate ; antennae 
nearly equal to the body in length, filiform, tapering towards the apex, second and third 
joints very short, equal. Thorax transverse, sides constricted behind the middle, dilated in 
front, the anterior angles produced, their apices obtuse; apical border concave-emarginate ; 
disc smooth, impunctate, thickened on either side near the anterior angle, impressed on each 
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