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yellow, with a sutural stripe, a narrow outer marginal line, a crescent 

 traversing the suture in the anterior half and directed forwards, 

 and an obUque line extending from each shoulder almost to the 

 extremity, black ; these dark markings are frequently red instead 

 of black. The whole surface of the proiiotum is clothed with 

 ■ erect yellowish pubescence, and there is a tuft of yellow hairs on 

 each side of the head between the eyes. The whole of the lower 

 surface, the femora and the pygidiuin (except a longitudinal 

 smooth line along the middle of the latter) are densely clothed 

 with decumbent white hair. 



The head is finely and densely granular except upon the vertex, 

 where it is strongly punctured. The prouotuui is closely and 

 rugosely punctured, rather square in shape, with the sides augu- 

 lated before the middle and parallel from there to the base, which 

 is feebly emarginate in the middle; the front angles are acute and 

 the hind angles nearly right aqgles. The scutellum is finely 

 punctured on each side. The elytra are deeply punctate-striate, 

 the intervals being smooth and convex, and the fifth and sixth 

 striae closely approximating behind. The longer claw of the front 

 foot is cleft at the tip. The pygidium is punctured at the sides 

 and smooth and shining in the middle. 



d" . The four hinder tarsi are longer than those of the female, 

 the front ones shorter and their longer claws blunt and only very 

 minutely cleft at the tip. 



Length, 11-12 mm. ; breadth, 6-7 mm. 



Bombay : Kanara {T. R. D. Bell), Belgaum {H. E. Andrewes) ; 

 Punjab : Simla (Bei-lin Ent. Mus.) ; Baluchistan : Chaman 

 {E. T. Atkinson, April). 



Ti/2Je in the British Museum. 



24. Tropiorrhynchus podagricus. 



Atiisojilia podaffrica, Burm., Handb. Ent. iv, 1, 1844, p. 22G. 



Deep metallic green, with the elytra black and each marked 

 with an anterior and a posterior pale yellow patch near the suture, 

 the former extending to and along the front margin and occasion- 

 ally uniting with the latter. Additional pale marks may appear 

 near the sides of the elytra, or all may be absent. Pale specimens 

 are also found in which the ground-colour, instead of being dark, 

 is reddish, with a slight metallic green lustre, except upon the 

 elytra. The lower surface is densely clothed with whitish de- 

 cumbent hair and there are similar but less closely set hairs upon 

 the femora, the circumference of the pygidium, at the inner edge 

 of each eye, on a triangular patch on each side of the front margin 

 of the pronotum and also at the hind angles. 



The body is narrower and more parallel-sided than in T. orientis. 

 The head is finely and densely granular. The pronotum is densely 

 and rugosely punctured, the sides being contracted from before 

 the middle to the base, which is gently and uniformly curved, 

 the front angles are acute and the hind angles nearly right angles. 



