KL'STALIDA. 57 



Length, Q^ mm. ; breadth, 3 mm. 



Andamam Islands. 



Type ill the British Museum. 



Genus EUSTALIDA. 



Eustalida, Faust, Stett, Ent. Zeit. 1891, p. 2(>4. 



Metiostoma, Desbrocliers des Loges, C. R. Eiit. Soc. Belg. 1891 , p. ccclvi. 



Type, Eustalida homfonli, Faust. 



Characters as in JJermatoxenus, JNIshl., with the i'ollowiug 

 exceptions : — 



Head not impressed, nor constricted behind the eyes, the fore- 

 head with only a short faint stria. Rostrum separated from the 

 head by an angulated furrow, the scrobes longer, shallow behind 

 and curving to the lower margin of the eye, the epistome more 

 deeply emarginate and with its anterior angles sharply projecting 

 forwards, the mentum filling the buccal cavity. Antennce inserted 

 befoi-e the middle of the rostrum, the scape reaching the middle 

 of the eye, the funicle with joint 2 much longer than 1, the club 

 Avith joint 1 much longer than 2. Scutellum invisible. Sternum 

 with the anterior coxte rather nearer the front margin of the 

 prosternum, the episterua of the metasternum broad. Venter 

 with segment 1 separated from 2 by a sinuate incision. Legs 

 more slender and elongate, the corbels of the liiud tibiae with- 

 out scaling internally, all the tibiae with a long sharp internal 

 spine at the apex. 



Range. Northern India. 



25. Eustalida tomfordi, Fst. 



Eustalida bomfordi, Faust,* Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1891, p. 264. 

 Menost.oma cardoni, Hesbrochevs des Loges, C. R. Ent. Soc. Belg. 

 1891, p. ccclvi. 



Colour black, with uniform dense glittering metallic green 

 scaling above and below. 



Head nearly as long as broad, the space between the eye and 

 the prothorax equal to the length of the eye, the forehead with a 

 short fine stria. Rostrum comparatively long and slender, parallel- 

 sided in the basal half, the genge roundly dilated, the anterior 

 projections of the epistome very sharp, the upper surface with a 

 broad shallow longitudinal impression, the dorsal edges rounded, 

 the sculpturing hidden by the scaling. Antennce comparatively 

 slender, the scape abruptly clavate, the funicle with joint 2 much 

 longer than 1, 3 almost as long as 1 and longer than the remainder. 

 Prothorax very slightly broader than long, the sides gently 

 rounded, broadest about the middle, the base rounded, the apex 

 narrower and vertically truncate at the sides, the u]>per surface 

 rugulose, with a transverse impression near the apex and a com- 

 plete narrow central stria. Elytra separately rounded at the 



