ANTHKAOOPHORA. 10f> 



12 (13) Metallic ; hind tibia digitate Cetoxia, p. 132. 



18 (12) Not metallic : bind tibia not digitate : 



sternal process usually vertical Glycosia, p. 129. 



14 (11) Sternal process broad and flat, or absent. 

 l-~> (18) Clj'peus not elongate, rather broad in front. 



16 (17) First joint of hind tarsus spinose ^Ethikssa, p. 135. 



17 (16) First joint of hind tarsus not spinose .... PROTiEXiA, p. 136. 



18 (15) Clypeus elongate, narrow in front. 



19 (22) Clypeus flat. [p. 163. 



20 (21) Clypeus bilobed : Oxycetonia, 



21 (20) Clypeus entire Stalagmosoma, 



[p. 170. 



22 (19) Clypeus keeled, with produced angles .... Chiloloba, p. 171. 



Genus ANTHRACOPHORA. 



Anthracophora, Bunn.,IIandh. Ent. iii, 1842, p. 633; Lacord., Gen. 

 Col. iii, 1856, p. 540. 



Type, A. rustlcoJa, Burm. (China and Japan). 



liange. Japan, China, Siam, India, Java. 



Form compactly oval, a little depressed, with rather short legs. 

 Head short, the clypeus ahoufc twice as broad as it is long, with 

 the front margin reflexed and not distinctly excised. Protborax 

 rather broad, with the base narrowly excised at the middle. 

 Scutellum rather small, not sharply pointed. Elytra completely 

 covering the abdomen at the sides, very little sinuated behind the 

 shoulders and blunt at the apical angles. Prosternum forming 

 two nodular processes in front of the anterior coxae. Middle 

 coxse rather wide apart, the sternum a little produced in front of 

 them, of varied shape but not dilated in front. Tibise rather 

 short, the front ones ai'med with two or three short teeth, the middle 

 and hind ones acutely digitate at the end. Mandibles stout at 

 the base, with the outer lobe thin but moderately chitinised and 

 not long. Maxilla not long, thickly fringed at the extremity, the 

 lower lobe forming a A'ery slender hooked tooth and the outer one 

 a bluntly bidentate process. Mentum broad iu front and very 

 obtusely emarginate. Antennae rather short. 



The sexes are alike externally. 



Key to the Species. 



1 (6) Sternal process conical, very short. 



2 (5) Front tibiae tridentate. 



3 (4) Elytra decorated with a lateral pale patch placed [p. 110. 



behind the middle siamensis, Kr., 



4(3) Elytra decorated with very small scattered white [p. 110. 



markings, sometimes absent crucifera, Oliv., 



5 (2) Front tibiae bidentate ^ufo, Arrow, 



[p. 112. 



6 (1) Sternal process semicircular dalmanni, Hope, 



[p. 112 



