. The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology. Natural history; Zoology; Botany; Geology. in the British Museum. J61 Chrysomelidae. Chrysomelites allochlamys, sp. n. (Fig. 5.) Elytron about 7-5 mm. long and 4-3 mm. broad ; moderately convex but flattened on disc, broadly truncate at base, obtuse at apex; nine lines of round rather large punctures; one near the inner margin, and four pairs of parallel lines, two near middle of disc, and two, close together, not far from outer margin ; between the pairs of lines the surface is very densely covered with punctures of t
. The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology. Natural history; Zoology; Botany; Geology. in the British Museum. J61 Chrysomelidae. Chrysomelites allochlamys, sp. n. (Fig. 5.) Elytron about 7-5 mm. long and 4-3 mm. broad ; moderately convex but flattened on disc, broadly truncate at base, obtuse at apex; nine lines of round rather large punctures; one near the inner margin, and four pairs of parallel lines, two near middle of disc, and two, close together, not far from outer margin ; between the pairs of lines the surface is very densely covered with punctures of the same size as those in the lines. In one of the lines there are about seven punctures to a mm. Fisr. Chrysoniftlites allocldamys. 19008. Bartonian ; Bagshot Beds, Bournemouth {J. S. Gardner). Brit. Museum, 19U08, with reverse. The type of Chrysomelites is C. prodromus, Heer, from the Lower Lias of Switzerland, an insect certainly not congeneric with the present species. But I follow Scudder in treating the name as applicable to fossil Chrvsomtlidse of unknown generic position, although it seems probable that our insect should be made the type of a new genus. It has a curious resemblance to Smodicoptera Hasina (Heer), from the Lower Lias of Switzerland. Heer considered Smodicoptera to be a Buprestid {Euchroma), but our species certainly cannot belong to that family. In ' Die lusektenfauna der Tertiar- gebilde von Oeningen und von Eadoboj ' (1847), plate viii., Heer undertook to illustrate the primitive or fundamental pattern of a Coleopterous elytron, and according to tliis system C. allochlamys may be considered a primitive form. Such a pattern persists in the modern Leptinotarsa, but that typically difft-rs from our fossil in having the rows of punctures much more irregular and (especially L. undecim- litieata) double at least in part, while the intervals beweeu the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhance
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