NEW SPECIES OF INDIAN PHYTOPHAGA 113 



impunctate thorax and specimens occur in which the elytra are 

 dark purplish (the extreme lateral margin being metallic green) and 

 the legs dark seneous. 



COLASPOIDES LATERALIS n. sp. 



Below, the antennse, labrum and legs fulvous, above obscure 

 cupreous, head finely, thorax strongly and remotely punctured, 

 elytra punctate-striate near the suture, the sides more strongly 

 punctured and the interstices at the same place transversely rugose, 

 anterior femora dilated into a tooth. 



Length 5-6 mill. 



Head rather finely and remotely punctured, with a central longi- 

 tudinal groove, the clypeus triangular, bounded at the sides by dis- 

 tinct grooves, its surface more strongly punctured, metallic green, 

 labrum fulvous, antennae extending nearly to the apex of the elytra 

 in the male, fulvous, all the joints with the exception of tlie first 

 and second, very elongate; thorax twice as broad as long, the sides 

 rounded, the angles acute, the surface strongly but not very clo- 

 sely punctured, scutellum impunctate, metallic green, elytra with 

 a depression below the base, strongly and closely punctate-striate, 

 regularly so near the suture, more irregularly and strongly at the 

 sides, the interstices strongly transversely rugose at this place, 

 below dark fulvous, legs paler, the intermediate tibise of the male 

 curved at the apex, the anterior femora dilated into a strong tooth. 



Hab. Gashar, Khasia Hills, India. (My collection.) 



In this species, the anterior femora only are dentate and wide- 

 ned ; C. prasina Lefev. is of aeneous colour below and has the epis- 

 tome and thorax smooth, C. riigipennis Lefev. differs in the strongly 

 punctured thorax and the costate elytral interstices as well as the 

 dentate posterior femora; in the present insect the thorax is rather 

 irregularly and not closely punctured and the elytral interstices are 

 only costate at the extreme apex, but transversely rugose almost 

 throughout the entire basal portion although much more markedly 

 so at the sides. 



CoLASPOiDES spiNiPES Jac. (nec Chapuis). 



This name must be altered to C. deniata on account of C. spinipes 

 Chap, which this author placed in Amasia but which is a true 

 Colaspoides and identical with C. varians Baly. 



