PHYODEXIA. 



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199. Phyodexia concinna, Pascoe, A. M. K. H. (4) viii, p. 273, pi. 13, 

 fi- '2 (1871). 



Black with the elytra steel-blue varying to violet, and the legs 

 and basal joints of the antennee reddish, 

 furnished 'above and below with some 

 sparsely scattered long erect hairs. Head 

 closelv punctured above between _ and 

 around the eyes, less closely on its hinder 

 part. Second joint of antennte with a 

 long narrow tuft of hairs on one side, 

 third with a similar tuft at the apex, 

 fourth, fifth and sixth almost completely 

 surrounded with brushes of black hair, 

 seventh and eighth joints angulate at the 

 apex in front. Prothorax strongly and 

 verv closely punctured, except on the 

 thickened front edge of the anterior trans- 

 verse groove. Elytra less strongly and 

 less closely punctured; sparsely pubes- 

 cent. Body beneath distinctly but not 

 closely punctured, sparsely pul)esceut : 

 episterna of metathorax marked each with 

 a small deep pit (in all probability a scent- 

 pore) near its hinder end. 



Length 1-4-15 ; breadth 4 mm. 

 Uab. Himalavas : Mussooree, Darjee- 

 Patkai Mts. {Boherty) ; Upper Burma : 



Fig. 72. 



Phyodexia concinna, i'asc. 



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ling, Bhutan ; Assam 

 Maymyo {Col. Bingham). 



Group PUliPURICENINI. 



Head moderately exserted ; eyes finely facetted, broadly and 

 deenlv emaro-inate ; antennal supports emargmate ; front vertical 

 ortclinl^ Antennae much longer as a rule than the bodv m the 

 A shorter than the body in the 5 , in this sex often tlnckened 

 t^;-ards the apex. Prothorax generally tuberculate at the^ sides. 

 Scutellum rather long, triangular, acute at apex. Iront coxa> 

 Globular, not angulate on the outer side, their acetabula open 

 posteriorly. Acetabula of middle coxa^ extended to epimem. 

 Metathorax with scent-pores. Wings with vein Cu 1 usually 

 simple, Cu 2 absent. . „, 



Several genera, mostly American, belong to this group. Iavo 

 only are included in the Indian fauna. 



