00 SUBFAMILIES CYPHALEIS.fl AND CN0DAL0N1NJZ, 



Five specimens examined, show little sexual distinction, (in 

 three of them, the front tarsi are wanting). A Paropsis-\ike 

 insect, closely allied to B. Dumbrelli Lea, from which it differs 

 in (1) the coarser punctures of upper surface, (2) its uneven 

 surface of elytra, (3) its blue antennae and legs, which in B. 

 Dumbrelli are reddish. 



B0LB0PHANES VARIC0L0R, n.Sp. 



Shortly ovate, very convex, glabrous (except on head) and 

 moderately nitid; colour various, in some specimens purple or 

 cyaneous, in others dark green with purple reflections (the elytra 

 generally concolorous) ; underside, legs, antennae, and tarsi 

 metallic blue-black or violaceous. 



Head densely punctate, epistoma and labrum with short dark 

 hair, the latter prominent, the former rounded in front, sinuate 

 at the canthus, deeply impressed at the suture; eyes separated 

 by a distance greater than the apparent transverse diameter of 

 an eye; antennae scarcely reaching the base of prothorax, joint 3 

 slightly longer than 4, joints 8-11 slightly enlarged, 9-10 nearly 

 round, 11 largest and ovoid. Prothorax (2 J x 5 J mm.) widest at 

 base, length measured in middle, apex and base bisinuate, in each 

 case produced at the middle and at the angles; anterior angles 

 acute but slightly rounded, sides arcuately widening to the base; 

 posterior angles acute, sides and apex narrowly bordered, lateral 

 margins explanate and sometimes finely corrugated, disc closely 

 and uniformly finely punctate, a smooth middle line sometimes 

 indicated, a small basal fovea on each side. Scutellum rounded 

 behind and on sides, punctate. Elytra very convex, slightly 

 gibbous at the shoulders, closely fitting and of same v\ idth as 

 prothorax at base, then widening and oval, a little sinuously 

 narrowed near the apex, very narrowly bordered throughout; 

 disc uniformly closely, distinctly punctate, with a slight tendency 

 to rugosity. Abdomen minutely rugose, the last segment closely 

 punctate, with a circular depression; sternum sparsely, epimera 

 closely punctate; prosternum carinate, received behind into a 

 triangular cavity of the metasternum; intercoxal process wide, 

 its apex truncate; three basal joints of front and intermediate tarsi 



