Phytophagous Colooptera. 439 



Genus conYNODES, Hope. 



1. Ctirjpiodes Assaiaensls, n. sp. 



Elongatus, sulicylindi'icus, metaUico-purpureus, uitidus, iutei'- 

 duni viridi micans ; thoraee disperse sat fortiter punctate ; 

 elytris infra basin fortiter transversim excavatis, juxta mai-ginem 

 lateralem longitudinaliter sulcati.s, sixbseriatim punctatis. Long. 

 4-51 lin. 



Mas. Antennis corporis dimidio multo longioribus, articuUs 

 sex ultimis compressis, paullo dilatatis. 



Firm. Antennis lirevioribus, articulis sex ultimis sat valde 

 dilatatis ; elytris intra sulcuni latcrale costatis. 

 Ilab. The Hills and Plains ; Dihru. 



Vortex strongly but not A'ery ' closely punctured ; front 

 impressed with a longitudinal groove, Avhich terminates just 

 above the apex of the clypeus in a large ill defined fovea; clypexis 

 rather broader than long, semi-ovate, separated from the front 

 on either side by a deep groove, its extreme apex transversely 

 depressed ; surface closely j)unctured, clothed with fulvous 

 hairs; antenna; nearly three fourths the length of the body in 

 the $ , the six oiiter joints only slightly dilated, scarcely more 

 than half the length of the body in the 9 , the six terminal 

 joints in this sex more broadly dilated. Thorax rather more 

 than one half broader than long ; sides straight and slightly 

 converging from the Ijase to the middle, thence rounded and 

 converging to the apex ; disc convex, subcylindrical, sparingly 

 punctured, impressed on either side, just behind the middle, 

 with an ill defined fovea. Elytra narrowly oblong, convex, 

 impressed below the basilar space with a deep transverse, slightly 

 curved sulcation ; just within the lateral margin in both sexes is 

 a broad ill defined longitudinal groove, within this in the ^ i*^ a, 

 narrow elevated longitudinal costa, which extends from the 

 humeral callus nearly to the apex of the elytra, claws appendi- 

 culated. 



In habit closely resembling C. asphodelus, Marsh., separated 

 from that insect by its broader thorax, by the longitudinal (!Osta 

 on the elytra in the ^ , and by the six (not five) dilated outer 

 joints of the antenna^. 



2. Conjnodef peregrirnis, Fnessly. 



Ilab. Sadia; Dibru. 



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