116 CETONIIN^. 



92. Anatona castanoptera. 



Anoplochilus castauopterus, Burm,, Hcmdb. Ent. iii, 1842, p. 509. 

 Eumimela pyeialis, Kraatz,* Deutsche Ent. Zeitschr. xxv, 1881, 

 p. 264 (n. syn.)- 



Shining black above and beneath, with the elytra sometimes 

 reddish chestnut, and thinly clothed with tawny hairs, except upon 

 the scutellum and at the middle of the metasteruum and abdomen, 

 the hairs being very short and scanty upon the elytra. 



The size and form are the same as those of A. stillata. The 

 head is granulated and the proihorax very strongly and uniformly 

 punctured, with the sides rounded, the hind angles obsolete, and 

 the base broadly emarginate in the middle. The scutellum is 

 smooth and marked with a slight longitudinal impression ; and the 

 elytra are marked with rows of large, shallow and more or less 

 confluent pits ; the sides are sinuated and the apical angles 

 fairly well marked. The i>y<jidium is rugose, the mttasternum 

 smooth in the middle and punctured at the sides, and the ventral 

 segments have each a median row of punctures and are irregularly 

 punctured at the sides. The teeth of the front tibia are strong, 

 the 1st and 3rd sharp and directed obliquely forward, and the 2nd 

 broad and directed slightly backward. 



cJ . The abdomen is broadly excavated and the hind tibiae and 

 tarsi have a conspicuous tawny fringe. 



Length 12 mm. ; breadth 7 mm. 



Punjab : Kulu ; Bombay (teste Burmeister). 



Ti/j^e unknown ; that of pggialis in the German Entomological 

 National Museum ; co-type in the British Museum. 



Burmeister's type perhaps has the head damaged or abnormal. 



Genus POGONOPUS, nov. 



Type, Pogonopus pusillus, sp. n. 



Range. India. 



Body small, compact and convex. Clypeus flat, narrowed a 

 little to the front, with the anterior augles forming reflexed teeth. 

 Pronotum convex, narrow in front, with the sides regularly 

 curved, the hind augles completely obliterated, and the base 

 gently curved and hardly perceptibly sinuated before the scutellum. 

 Scutellum short, broad at the base and moderately sharp at the 

 apex. Elytra moderately sinuated at the side margins and not 

 sharp at the apical angles. Mesosternum broad and hairy in 

 front and not produced. Legs rather short, front tibia armed 

 with three strong teeth ; hind tibia truncate at the end. 



S . Abdomen arched beneath. Hind tarsus bearing a rather 

 long fringe of hairs beneath. 



The two interesting little species for which I have formed this 

 genus are both characterised by markings composed of a peculiar 

 silky matter having a pearly-blue lustre which in certain lights 

 may vary from nearly white to nearly black. 



