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39."). Iresioides kraatzi, Tkumx. Si/st. Ccncnh. ]>. ."347 (iso.")). 



Of a rather dark crimson-brown colour, verging towards black 

 on the head and prothorax ; head covered with golden pubescence 

 in front and on two bands above, which curve round the eves and 

 ineet between the antenna ; prothorax marked above with two 

 rather broad longitudinal bands of golden pubescence which are 

 closely approximated at the base, sometimes even united there. 

 Jllytra claret-coloured, faintly covered witli golden-tawnv pubescence 

 w hich is visible only in reflected light, each elytron marked at the 

 base with a short longitudinal band of denser golden pubescence, 

 this band placed nlong a slight depression which gradually slopes 

 from the inner side and is sliarply limited on the outer. Body 

 beneath covered for the greater part with silverv pubescence. 

 Head distinctly but rather sparsely punctate. Antenna? about 

 one-fourth longer than the body in the c? . Prothorax subcylin- 

 drical, a little narrowed at the base, densely punctate ; disc with a 

 short transvei'se carina in the middle. Elytra distinctly but not 

 \ ery thickly punctured, the punctures subseriate in places ; each 

 rounded or narrowly suhtruncate at the apex. 



Lenf/th 6-9 ; breadth 1| -2| mm. 



JIah. Cevlon. 



Genus POLYPHIDA. 

 Polyphida, Pascoe, Trans. Enf. Soc. (3) iii, p. (>>:> (1809). 



Type, P. ch/toides, Pasc, a sj^ecies from Borneo. 



Range. Burma, Malay Peninsula and Borneo. 



Nearly allied to Iresioides, Tiioms. ; somewhat similar in form, 

 but tlie prothorax is longer and more cylindrical, the hind legs 

 longer than the others, with the femora extended to the apex of 

 the elytra in the 6; the head concave between the autennal 

 supports. 



396. PolypMda metallica, Nunfried (Chtus), Berl enf. Zeif. xxxviii, 

 p. y38 (1803). 

 Polyphida I'eie, Gahan, Ann. Mns. Civ. Genovu, xxxiv, p. 2!', pi. 1, 

 lig. 8 (1894). 



Black, densely covered with silky pubescence, which has a some- 

 what golden tint above, silvery beneath ; elytra metallic, covered 

 for the most part with golden pubescence, each with a short, 

 glabrous, chalybeate-blue band that runs back a short distance from 

 the shoulder, and two slightly oblique transverse bands of tiie 

 same kind placed one just before, the other behind, the middle. 

 Antennaj and legs faintly covered with grey pubescence. Head 

 with a feebly impressed, median, black line along the front, a feu- 

 sparse punctures on the vertex; front distinctly narrowed between 

 the eyes, more so in the o than in the J' . Antenna' about ennal 



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