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228. Aphrodisium hardwickianum, Whife (Callichroma), Cat. 

 Coleopt. B. M., Lo)ujic. p. 102 (1853). 



Metallic green, glabrous and glossy above with a slightly brassy 

 tint ; covered faintly beneath with silver-grey pubescence ; femora 

 red or purplish-red ; tarsi fulvous yellow ; antennae with the first 

 four or five joints green and subnitid, the rest dull black. Head 

 almost im])unctate in front, and the protliorax sparsely and not 

 strongly punctured above ; the species in both these respects diiiers 

 from A. cribricolle, van de Poll, with which in other points of 

 structure, as well as in colour, it agrees very closely. Both may 

 be distinguished from A. cantorl, Hope, by the absence of an 

 anterior tubercle from each side of the prothorax, by the postero- 

 lateral part of the disc which is sharply ridged or tuberculated, 

 and by the acuminate apices to the elytra ; the males are further 

 distinguished by the rather feeble, sinuate emargination at the apex 

 of the fifth abdominal segment. 



Length 30 mm. 



Jlab. Nepal. 



229. Aphrodisium neoxenum, White (Callichroma), Cat. Coleopt. 

 B. 31., Longic. p. 154 (1853). 

 Callichroma ioscelis, Hope (without description). Trans. Linn, Sac. 

 xviii, p. 440 (1841). 



Head, prothorax and scutellum dark green and very glossy; 

 elytra green with a slight bronzy tint, subnitid near the base, and 

 somewhat dull posteriorly ; first four or five joints of the 

 antennae blue or green and subnitid, the rest dull black; femora 

 purplish red, thehind pair tipped with blue or green at the apex ; 

 rarsi of the same blue or green colour as the tibiae ; body beneath 

 brassy-green veiled with grey pubescence. Head feebly and very 

 sparselv punctate, marked with a few transverse striae on each 

 side behind the eyes. Prothorax with the front margin nearly 

 straight, the anterior groove well-marked, but not extended far 

 down on the sides ; the disc slightly flattened in the middle and 

 there also rugulose and rather densely punctate, raised posteriorly 

 so as to form an oblique ridge or tubercle on each side, and with 

 also a feebler oblique ridge on each side anteriorly ; the lateral 

 tubercle on each side placed slightly before the middle and not so 

 strong as in the other species. Elytra rather more than three 

 times as long as their width across the base, the whole surface 

 with a rugulose or coriaceous sculpture, coarser near the base and 

 gradually finer and closer towards the apex ; each separately and 

 rather sharjjly rounded at the apex. 



Lcncfth 34-42 mm. 



Hah. Assam. 



