APHRODISIUM PLANICOLLE. 157 



This species is just intermediate between A. Cantori 

 Hope and A. Hardwickianum White. With Cantori it has 

 in common the colour of the femora, but it recedes largely 

 from that species by having a thorax without nodosities 

 and elytra pointed at the tip. This character of the elytra 

 places planicolle close to Hardwickianum, however, the 

 purplish red thighs of the latter will allow to keep them 

 separate without entering into further details. 



Aphrodisium cribricolle v. d. Poll. 



Nitidum , viride , interdum coerulescens , femorihus purpureo- 

 rubris , tarsis fidvis. Caput in fronte rugulosum. Protliorax 

 antics in disco nonnihil nodosus , fortiter et dense punctatus , 

 latera versus rugosus. Elytra ad apicem separatim produc- 

 ta , suhtiliter ruguloso-punctata , ohsoletius apicem versus. 



Praecedenti admodum ajjine , sed minor , prothorace ma- 

 gis punctato , femorihus purpureo-ruhris. Femorum colore 

 valde appropinquat A. Hardwickiano, ah eo sculptura 

 capitis prothoracisque discrepat. — Long. 35 — 45 mm., 

 lat. 8 — 11 mm. 



Habitat: Sikkim. 



In several respects this species is nearest allied to the 

 preceding A. planicolle. In as much I may judge from the 

 five specimens I have , it is a smaller and less robust in- 

 sect , the colour is not so bright , less golden and more 

 bluish-green, the thighs are purplish-red; the head is 

 somewhat more strongly rugose in front; the prothorax is 

 not quite so plain on the disc and shows small nodosities 

 in front , the punctures are much larger and more nume- 

 rous and laterally the interstices between them are more 

 strongly raised and extend over a greater part, the poin- 

 ted apices and the sculpture of the elytra are almost similar. 



The colour of the femora as well as the pointed tips of 

 the elytra are placing A. cribricolle in immediate proximity 

 with A. Hardwickianum , however in the latter species the 

 front of the head is almost smooth and the disc of the 



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