8YMPIBZ0MIAS. 169 



Length, 6 ^-'^, $ 7-11 mm.; breadtli, c^ 2i-4, $ 3^-51 mm. 

 Madras: Anamalai Hills, 3500-4U00 ft. (//. L. Andrewes). 

 Types 6 2 ill the British Museum. 



131. Sympiezomias serratipes, sp. uov. 



Colour black, with grey scaling having a strong copi)ei'y re- 

 flexion, turning to greenish laterally and below, and with a darker 

 centi'al stripe ou the prouotum ; sometimes the whole oF the 

 scaling above is metalhc green, except for the broad coppery 

 stripe on the pronotum, which is continued more vaguely on the 

 elytra. 



Head with a broad transverse impression behind the eyes and a 

 distinct central furrow, which ascends nearly to the vertex, longi- 

 tudinally striolate, but the sculpturing hidden by the scaling. 

 RostruDi evidently longer than broad, scarcely impressed above, 

 longitudinally wrinkled and with a very broad central furr(nv^, the 

 dorsal carinse well-marked and graduall}^ converging behind, ^lu- 

 tennce with joint 1 of the funicle much longer than 2. Protliorax 

 somewhat broader than long, the sides slightly rounded, broadest 

 about the middle, the apex not much nari'ower tlian the base, the 

 apical margin slightly oblique laterally, the prouotum rugosely 

 sculptured and with a shallow central furrow throughout. Eli/ira 

 ovate, the sides strongly rounded, broadest behind the middle, 

 rather abruptly and sharply pointed at the apex in the ? » more 

 blunt in the c? , but not mucronate in either sex, the basal margin 

 distinctly elevated, but no trace of a humeral fold ; the dorsal 

 outline rather flat, the posterior declivity steep and not impressed, 

 the apex somewhat produced doA^nwards in the $ ; the intervals 

 broad and even, tiie setse short, broad and curved, only conspicuous 

 posteriorly. Legs with the hind tibiae strongly denticulate in- 

 ternally, the second tarsal joints without any true scales. 



Length, 7-9 mm. ; breadth, 3-4| mm. 



BuEMA : Maymyo [H. L. Andrewes). 



Types S 5 in the British Museum. 



132. Sympiezomias kraatzi. Heller. 



Sympiezomias kraatzi, Heller,* Deut. Ent. Zeit. 1891, p. .340. 



Colour black, the head and prothorax with small sparse brownish- 

 grey scales, the latter having also a broad lateral stripe of large 

 greenish-yellow scales extending from the base to about the 

 middle, the elytra with dense brownish-grey scaling, variegated 

 with pale yellow along the base and with scattered large green 

 scales along must of the striae ; the underparts with thin greyish 

 scaling. 



Head rugosely punctate and somewhat striolate, the forehead 

 unusually flattened, with a deep central furrow \\hich does not 

 ascend the vertex. Itostrum about as long as broad, slightly 



