DREPANODKRES. 



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256. Drepanoderes viridifasciatus, Wtrh. 



Drepanoderes viridifasciatus, Waterhouse,* Trans. Ent. Soc. (2) ii, 



1852, p. 186 ; Lr.cordaire, Gen. Col. pi. 65, fig. 2. 

 Drepanoderes fuscHS, Waterhouse,* 1. c. p. 187. 



Colour piceous, with or without metallic green markings ; when 

 the green scaling is present the head and prothorax are green, 

 the latter with a broad denuded central stripe and a narrower 

 lateral one, the edges of the lateral process being also bare ; the 

 elytra with 5 or 6 irregular transverse green bands which reach 

 neither suture nor margin and a green apical patch, but sometimes 

 the markings are absent on the disk so that there is only a longi- 

 tudinal green stripe mostly along the intervals 5 and 6. 



Head almost impunctate, with a short frontal stria. Rostrum 



Fig. DO. — Drepanoderes v/rid/fasciai/is, Wtrh. 



a little longer than the head, about as long as broad, parallel- 

 sided at the base and slightly dilated at the apex, almost plane 

 above and with a fine central carina. Antennce flavous. Pro- 

 thorax much shorter than its width at the base, the width from 

 point to point of the broad sickle-shaped lateral processes being 

 as broad as tlie greatest width of the elytra, the upper surface 

 with close shallow punctation. Elytra jointly sinuate at the base, 

 tlie shoulders sharply rectangular, the sides subparallel to beyond 

 the middle, punctato-striate, the intervals with short suberect 

 pale setae. Leeis tlavous, the femora usually with some green 

 scaling towards the apex. 



Lengthy 4-4| mm. ; breadth, 1|-2| mm. 



Bombay : Igatpuri. 



Type in the British Museum ; also the type of D. fuscus. 



Til D. fuscus the green scales are entirely absent, except just 

 behind the eye. It is not quite clear whether these examples 

 represent a real colour variation, or are iiierel}'' abraded. 



