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Show 10 o MR. M. JACOBY ON THE [Feb. 1, thorax rugose-punctate, the former with one, the latter with three black spots; elytra pale fulvous, finely pubescent, a narrow sutural and a broad lateral stripe bright green. Length 3-3| lines. Head closely rugose-punctate, testaceous, with a large triangular black spot at the vertex. Antennse slender, filiform, two thirds the length of the body, black or fuscous at the terminal joints, the basal ones, varying in numbers, fulvous ; third joint longer than the fourth. Thorax more than twice as broad as long, the sides strongly rounded at the middle, the anterior angles produced into an acute point; surface transversely and strongly depressed, more strongly rugose-punctate than the head, testaceous, with a large black spot at each side, and another one, mesially constricted, at the middle. Scutellum testaceous, broad, its apex truncate. Elytra slightly widened behind, closely covered with fine silky whitish pubescence; a very narrow sutural stripe, not quite extending to the apices, and another very broad one, commencing at the scutellum and extending to the apical margin of each elytron, bright green, the rest of the surface as well as the extreme lateral margin testaceous. Legs of the same colour, the upperside of the femora and that of the tibise more or less distinctly marked with a piceous stripe, sometimes the legs are entirely of that colour. Claws bifid. Kituk galle. GALERUCELLA LATERALIS, sp. nov. Ovate, slightly widened posteriorly, testaceous ; antennae, a spot at the vertex and three at the thorax, fuscous ; elytra closely punctured and pubescent, obscure greenish, the lateral margins narrowly testaceous. Length 2f-3 lines. Head finely rugose, pale brownish or testaceous, a triangular spot at the vertex and the central narrow groove fuscous ; the anterior margin of the clypeus thickened. Antennse nearly as long as the body, the third joint very long and slender, all the others shorter but equally slender, the second joint very short. Thorax more than three times as broad as long, the sides narrowed towards the apex, slightly sinuate, the anterior angles produced into a very small tooth, the posterior ones oblique and sinuate at each side ; the disk with a transverse depression at the sides and a longitudinal impressed central line, sculptured like the head and sparingly clothed with very short pubescence; a spot at each side, and another near the anterior margin at the middle, fuscous. Scutellum fuscous. Elytra rather convex, much more distinctly and closely covered with white hairs, extremely finely and closely rugose-punctate, obscure dark greenish, opaque, the lateral margins obscure pale testaceous. The sides of the breast, the femora above, and the outside of the tibiae piceous. The first joint of the posterior tarsi scarcely longer than the following one ; claws bifid ; anterior coxal cavities open. Kitukgalle. In one specimen the thorax is almost entirely fuscous, owing |